Dell Virtual Storage Manager (VSA) failure

Within the company i work we use Dell EqualLogic SAN storage. To take care of replication schedules we installed the Dell Dell Virtual Storage Manager Appliance and until last week it worked perfectly. Suddenly last week the Dell VSA gave errors connecting to the several storage pools, and after searching for a while i discovered the appliance ran out of space! But how to fix it? After a few hours i came to the following solution:

• Disable the standard shell the Dell VSA starts when logging on to the Dell VSA. You can do this by starting a FTP session to the Dell VSA and editing the file /root/.bash_profile. Disable the line with start ./setup.sh



• Connect to the Dell VSA with a terminal emulation program like Putty


• Remove all the files in:




• /usr/local/asmve/logs


• /usr/local/asmve/standalone/log




• Restart the Dell VSA and you're back in business!

To be sure this doesn't happen again you could create a cron task:

• Connect to the Dell VSA with a terminal emulation program like Putty


• Create a file, for example /root/scripts/clearlog:




• Content file:
  rm -f /usr/local/asmve/logs/*
  rm -f /usr/local/asmve/standalone/log/*


• Give the file executable rights:
  chmod +x /root/scripts/clearlog
  




• Put the file into the cron:




• crontab -e


• Enter the following line:
  15 0 7 /root/scripts/clearlog


• Save the file
  

For the above you'll need the root user and it's password.