Space Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts :
Space consumption of a VMFS Datastore in OTHER category reflects high usage (50 GB) and it spiking for every 2 hours from 10 to 50 GB. How to identify/determine which files are used in OTHER category and why there is sudden spike in usage/size.
vCenter alarm is triggered when it reaches 90 % of datastore usage for one LUN(datastore_lun210) which is attached to 3 ESXi and it contain 10 VMs , please refer the below VMware KB for more understanding.
- Need a quick solution to find out the cause of sudden spike in OTHER category
- Which file is consuming more space and how to find the size of it.
Attached Image is for example : But in my case, it reaches 50 GB in OTHER category.