ESXi host in disconnected state from vCenter on HPE blade.

HPE AMS -Agentless Management Service – is a great concept of having monitoring tool and connection between iLO and ESXi host in (HPE-)ESXi image.

Unfortunately with version 11.4.0 (2019) AMS comes with bug and can fill up the /tmp partition. This can lead to trouble with services dependend from /tmp partition, additionaly this can cause ESXi disconnected state from vCenter.

Quick solution:

  1. cd /tmp
  2. du -sm * | sort -n (search for the largest file)
  3. echo > theLargestFile (probably: echo > ams-bbUsg.txt)
  4. fix ams by upgrading this

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78595

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-a00073323en_us

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