Problem
You attempt to initiate a recompose of a desktop in you VMware Horizon View environment but notice that it errors out with the following details:
View Composer Fault: Unexpected VC fault from View Composer (Unknown) - Unknown - <fault xsi:type="SystemError" xmlns="urn:internalvim25" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<reason>Failed to create journal file provider: Failed to open "/var/log/vmware/journal/1464875847.40" for write: There is no space left on the device</reason>
</fault>
Pairing state:
Configured by:
Attempted theft by:
You are able to work around this issue by detaching the profile disk from the virtual desktop so that the VDI gets deleted and then recreate the machine successfully with the profile disk.
Solution
One of the reasons that could cause this error to be thrown is if you have SanDisks ioVDI solution deployed and have ran out of flash disk storage. We noticed this after realizing that if we would be able to successfully recompose the virtual desktop if we vMotion or move the VDI to another host that has less SanDisk ioVDI utilization.