Re: vCenter Server Appliance (SLES) out of disk space, service cannot start

I restarted the vCenter Appliance and was able to connect using vSphere Client. Then I modified the following settings under vCenter Server Settings:

Database Retention Policy... Tasks and Events retained for 120 days. Previously they were unticked, presumably allowing for unlimited storage.

But disk usage still remains at 100% on / and /storage/db partitions.

Will the database retention settings reduce that disk usage? Do I need to trigger a database clean-up manually like I did on SQL Server Express?

When should this take effect?

config.log.maxFileNum is 30

config.log.maxFileSize is 52428800

Should I change those options to lower values?

Thanks, B