This is just the sort of cool technical tip that saves your bacon when it’s lodged somewhere in your mind: What happens when the VMware ESXi RAMdisk gets full? Here’s Tom Howarth’s account…
After upgrading to ESXi 5 we saw several instances of host instability as the Ramdisk ram out of space, symptoms including :-
- Changes to VM settings failing
- VMotion to or from the server failing (so we couldn’t put the server into Maintenance Mode for a safe reboot)
- Local logs not updating
- Host reporting as disconnected status within vCenter
via planetvm.net
