I had an ESXi 5.1 host which was having issues performing vMotions and it turns out that the host has run out of free space as it's reporting being unable to write in the /var/log/vmware/journal directory.
Unfortunately when I try to ssh onto the host it does not connect and also a shell console connection to the host hangs and does not even display a command prompt (just the heading).
My option now is to try to connect to the host via vCLI or PowerCLI and view the partitions and manually remove some files to allow me to place the host in maintenance mode so I can move the running VMs off this node to then address the issue permanently. The trouble is that I'm not familiar with what commands I'd need to use in order to achieve this (if indeed it is possible?).
Does anyone have any pointers for me?
Many thanks in advance!