Partition size is too small (4294093)

Partition sizes do not change during an upgrade of the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA). In order to take advantage of new partition sizes, it would be necessary to deploy a new virtual appliance template and migrate the current backups to the new appliance.

Each version of the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) releases with new virtual appliance templates. Since the partition sizes do not change for every upgrade and when they do they are typically minor changes, this is not a necessary step on every upgrade. That being said, over time these small changes could build to a point where older templates are not suitable for new SMA versions.

Some of the possible symptoms which may indicate the necessity to look into partition sizes include:

• Performance degradation
  • Performance issues have an abundance of possible root causes, so typically this is a consideration on boxes which were created some time ago
  • It is also important to note that broken custom queries may also cause performance issues after an upgrade
    • Custom Reports
    • Custom Views
    • Custom Smart Labels
    • Custom Scripts
    • Custom Ticket Rules
    • Custom Inventory Rules
• Sudden backup failures
  • Another possible root cause of sudden backup failures after an upgrade include lower than required Technical Specifications (e.g.: KACE SMA 10.x VMware 6.7 Requirement Explained or not enough RAM)
• Services continually failing and then restarting (without initiating a restart)
• Consistent MySQL failures
• Patch download failures
  • May be causing a filesystem full on /tmp each download

SMAs which were deployed using a template preceding version 6.4 are not suitable to run versions 8.0 or higher. SMAs which were deployed using a template preceding version 8.0 are not suitable to run version 10.0 or higher.