So I was looking through my VCenter Server and found an entry that shows I was running out of log space. Hmmm, this may be why I was getting the syslog alerts that VMware support was absolutely no help with. I started searching around for ways to increase the space for the logs, but with 11 .vmdk's, which one was for the logs?? Fortunately I found the blog Virtually Ghetto by William Lam. I have stumbled across that blog before but forgot about it, like I do most things in my advancing years! He tells what each vmdk is here.
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Next problem, although he shows what each vmdk is for, I don't know the command line very well for vcsa. Fortunately, he assists with the actual mechanics of increasing the drive size with a link in the article here. It is easy enough that even I can do it! Using Putty to SSH in to vcsa, get to the BASH shell. At the command prompt "shell.set --enabled True" and then "shell", Then, run df -h to see the current size of the log file vmdk. Go in to the vSphere web client and increase the size of Hard Disk 5. I bumped it up to 15GB. Then back in Putty, "vpxd_servicecfg storage lvm autogrow". Finally, "df -h" again to show that the vmdk has increased.
This is a copy of my successful attempt at increasing the log size on my vcsa:
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