This assumes you installed vCenter 5.5 U2 components on the D or E drive on windows 2012 R2 with the exception of the web client which has to be installed on C: to work.
- Empty out C:$RecycleBin
- C:WindowsWinSxS – Windows Server 2012 R2 – Run this commands as admin.
dism /online /cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase - Use one of the following programs to find the largest files/folders.
TreeSize 3.4.2
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/treesize-free-portable
SpaceSniffer 1.2.0.2
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/spacesniffer.html
SpaceMonger 1.4.0 – Portable, from 2000, still works with Server 2012.
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/SpaceMonger.html
Store RDP user profiles to another partition.
Note – This will be for new RDP users so you will need to remove existing users profile. Yes, this works with Windows 2012 R2
http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-change-user-profile-default-location-in-windows-7/
Store the vCenter logs to the D partition
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2002125
C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware VirtualCentervpxd.cfg
CrashDumps ex. vpxd-13.dmp are stored in C:WindowsSystem32configsystemprofileAppDataLocalCrashDumps
In the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsWindows Error ReportingLocalDumps
set the DumpFolder string from %LOCALAPPDATA%CrashDumps to E:VCenterLogsCrashDumps
NOTE- This will store non-VMware application crash dump files
Even-though all vCenter components installed to the D: drive the Inventory Service and Profile Driven Storage logs are still being written to C:
- C:ProgramDataVMwareCISruntimeVMwareSTSlogs
C:ProgramDataVMwareInfrastructureProfile-Driven StorageLogs
Changing the following is NOT SUPPORTED!!! I would not do it. Bite the bullet and add disk space.
- C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructureInventory Serviceconfwrapper.conf
Write the log file to E:VCenterLogsInventory Servicewrapper.log
# Log file to use for wrapper output logging.
wrapper.logfile=E:VCenterLogsInventory Servicewrapper.logChange the following from the default 50 megabytes times 50 to 50 megabytes times 2 for only 100 megabytes of space.
wrapper.logfile.maxsize=50m
wrapper.logfile.maxfiles=50 - Ditto for the Profile-Driven Storage wrapper.log plus the following
Changing the following to E: is also risky.
wrapper.java.additional.7=-XX:HeapDumpPath=”C:/ProgramData/VMware/Infrastructure/Profile-Driven Storage/Logs/” - Ditto for C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructuretomcatconfwrapper.conf plus the following
set.VIM_LOGDIR=C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware VirtualCenterLogs
