UPDATE:
The things in the posting did NOT work. According to IBM’s website, the fix is by removing a package:
esxcli software vib remove -n intel-cdmv2-provider
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I got this message when trying to power on a vm, trying to deploy a template, and something else.
So I read this
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/331857?start=0&tstart=0
and then I go to the host and try restarting hostd (/etc/init.d/hostd restart) and it will no longer restart.
Looking into /var/log/hostd.log, it appears that /tmp is full:
2016-02-09T06:01:01.648Z info hostd[79EC2B70] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event 620 : The ramdisk ‘tmp’ is full.
As a result, the file /tmp/auto-backup.6942719/local.tgz could not be written.
So I look into the /tmp directory and find a file that’s 256MB – cimple_log_err_messages
cat cimple_log_err_messages
2016/02/09 23:28:57:LOG FILE ERROR: log.cpp(610) : No CIMPLE_HOME env var defined. Looking for CIMPLE_HOME
2016/02/09 23:28:57:LOG FILE ERROR: log.cpp(610) : No CIMPLE_HOME env var defined. Looking for CIMPLE_HOME
…
The first thing I do is to clear up the file – just run:
> cimple_log_err_messages
Then I’m able to start hostd, but how do I stop the file from filling up again?
I find this kb: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2094441
Not that it helps! It’s for 5.x. I go to the IBM url and it just leaves me more confused.
I look into disabling CIM. I find instructions here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025757
ummm it’s for 5.x again. 🙁
Run the instructions and the sfcb watchdog just restarts by itself!
Finally, I poke around in the vSphere client and notice in the profile that there is some CIM stuff there. For the heck of it, I try disallowing communication with IBMIMM.
I believe the log messages continued after disabling it, so I continued to disable CIM as well. After disabling CIM, the log messages stopped.
