What should you do seeing this message?

Ah, the infamous VAMI pre-check warning! You are trying to patch or upgrade your vCenter, and the update pre-check is throwing a fit about that 95% full /storage/archive partition we just looked at.

I completely understand why this stopped you in your tracks—the warning explicitly tells you to “Increase the disk space and attempt the operation again.”

However, you can completely ignore this. It is a known false-positive warning from VMware.

Why This Happens

The vCenter upgrade pre-check is a generic script that looks at all partitions and throws a warning if any of them are almost full. The script simply fails to account for the fact that VMware specifically engineered the /storage/archive partition to run at 95% capacity by design.

Official VMware Guidance

Broadcom/VMware actually has an official Knowledge Base article (KB 427159) documenting this exact false alarm.

Their official stance on this warning is:

“This is a warning only and does not impact vCenter patching. You may continue patching without issues. The archive disk space warning does not block patch installation. Manual resizing of LVM volumes or partitions is not supported.”

How to Proceed

Because this is flagged as a Warning and not a hard Error, the VAMI interface will not block you.

1. You can safely acknowledge/ignore the warning.
2. Proceed directly to Stage and Install (or just Install).

The vCenter updater does not actually need that archive space to do its job; it uses other partitions (like /storage/updatemgr, which you have plenty of space on) to stage the update files.