ql_ima log on ESXi filling up /tmp

[Kassim Ismail]

Hi All,

anyone come across a ql_ima.log file that fills up the /tmp folder on ESXi 5.5? we are running B200 M3 blades with Cisco ViC 1240. 

a quick search on the internet points to users having to update the qlogic driver to fix the issue. if we delete the file, it re-creates it. we dont have a qlogic card in the blade & correct my if i am wrong, but the 1240 would not use a qlogic driver?

any ideas on this?

Thanks

Kass

[Dragomir]

hi

I am getting same issues here. /tmp fiulling up with the qla logs

/tmp # du -sh *
0       0TiTvX
0       6M0k8y
0       8IgI3z
0       9NrykT
0       Cje7LD
0       FQaPHL
0       G90wiw
0       Ki7Zcg
0       MF7zjH
0       NYkNa6
0       QQXsy8
0       QW0LtL
0       TPrkGu
0       UTF5TZ
0       V0Ykq1
0       Zm0ubk
0       altbootbank.lck
0       cNGJeO
0       dpafifo
0       kl0hpE
0       mP04nV
4.0K    probe.session
182.9M  ql_ima.log
4.3M    ql_ima_sdm.log
4.8M    ql_ima_sdm.log_old
0       snmpd-cvtcimsnmp.xml
0       snmpd-vm-report.xml
0       vem-vmkbinding
0       vmY6Mt
8.0K    vmware-root
0       wtMpLb
0       y_79Xo
0       zC_UHX

did you find a solution to this?

thanks

[Kassim Ismail]

Hi,

i dont think we found a fix for this, but i will check with my colleague tomorrow who dealt in our team & see if he remembers if there was a fix.

Thanks

[Kassim Ismail]

Hi,

I believe these are the articles and the commands we ran to fix our issue:

http://wp.alphaparallel.com/2013/10/vmware-esxi-ram-disk-full-due-to-adaptecs-arcconf-bug/

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2353116

http://www.vdsyn.com/recovering-space-left-device-esxi/

esxcli system visorfs ramdisk list

tmp folder is full

rename the tmp folder

mv/tmp tmp.old

mkdir /tmp

hope this helps.

[marty.booth]

Anyone find a proper fix for this? Which driver would this be caused by on the B200 M3 and has anyone successfully stopped this from filling up the /tmp by updating the driver?

Or is it fixed in a certain ESXi version?

Marty

[Kassim Ismail]

Hi All,

we seem to have a fix for the ql_ima.log issue. i got in touch with TAC & they advised updating the qlogic driver for our version of ESXi & it has fixed the issue. we are no longer seeing the ql_ima.log being created on the host we applied the fix to. we are rolling this out to other hosts now.

the info from TAC is as follows:

"

Per our conversation there has been some issues with the inbox driver, updating to the following qlogic driver should resolve the ql_ima.log issues even though this driver is not actually in use by any devices on the blade:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI55-QLOGIC-QLA4XXX-63455280-1VMW&productId=351

The instructions are in the zip file under DOC/Readme.  Let me know if you have any questions.

"

hope this helps.

[Dragomir]

which of these vibs did you install? did you install all?

[Kassim Ismail]

Hi,

i installed:

"

qla4xxx-634.55.28.0-offline_bundle-1682448.zip

"