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Purging old data from the database used by VirtualCenter 2.x (a repost)

VirtualCenter stores tasks, event, and performance data in the VirtualCenter database. Over time, data collection results in growth of the database files and a mechanism is needed to shrink these files. VirtualCenter 2.x does not have a feature to purge or shrink old records from the database. For more information on shrinking databases after running the scripts provided in this […]

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VIM_VCDB database ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full (part 2)

After cleaning up your Virtual Center Database to get us back and running I came across the following vCenter Server 4.x has a Database Retention Policy setting that allows you to specify when vCenter Server tasks and events should be deleted. Since this setting does not affect performance data records it is still possible to purge […]

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VIM_VCDB database ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full

Additional Errors:  CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 4096 MB per database. Cause:  The 4 GB limit is a limit of SQL Server Express 2005.   If you needed to grow your database beyond that size, you would want to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Workgroup […]