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For the past few weeks, my customers keep received an alarm “Host connection failure” email alerts via VMware vCenter but end up it’s a false alarm.

The email alert example as below:
Target: kulsrvprd01.malaysiavm.com
Stateless event alarm

Alarm Definition:
([Event alarm expression: Cannot connect host - incorrect Ccagent] OR [Event alarm expression: Cannot connect host - network error] OR [Event alarm expression: Cannot connect host - time-out] OR [Event alarm expression: Cannot connect host - time-out] OR [Event alarm expression: Host connection lost])

Event details:
Host kulsrvprd01.malaysiavm.com in DC1 is not responding

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As my previous experienced, if you having a disk space full on /var, the host server will getting an error message such as “A general error occured : Failed to create journal File provider” when creating a new virtual machine. I had my test machine setup as default configuration, which the /var/log only allocated for 2GB in place. Prior to move the system to production, I decide to extend the /var/log from 2GB to 10GB as our current standard. Here come to the idea that I try to extend, unmount and remount as I usually did on the Linux.

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