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"dbm_CreateFilegroup: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 10240 MB per database." when running configuration wizard

This article provides information about an error "dbm_CreateFilegroup: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 10240 MB per database." after running the configuration wizard. If the message refers to 10240 MB, this is the typical size limitation of SQL Express.

First published date

5/6/2019 8:26 PM

Last published date

2/19/2025 9:16 PM

Overview

When running the configuration wizard, the following error message may appear:

Exception while configuring plugin Orion Core Services component Orion Database. dbm_CreateFilegroup: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 10240 MB per database.

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Learn about failed exception error while configuring Orion Core Services plugin

Product section

Orion Platform

Cause

This issue can occur if SQL Express edition is used which has a 10 GB database size limit.

For further information about SQL Server Express and its limitations,

SQL Express server limitations

Resolution

Resolution 1

Please contact your DBA and free up some space within the SQL DB or move the SolarWinds DB to a SQL licensed edition, either Standard or Enterprise.

Resolution 2

If the environment is running SQL standard or enterprise version do the below steps:

RDP to the SQL server.
Login to the SQL server using SA account.
Right click the Solarwinds database by default it is "SolarWindsOrion" and select properties.
Select Files on Select Page column.
Increase the ndf shown on the configuration wizard, Autogrowth / Maxsize from 1024 to 2048. For this concern it's the solarwindsorion_timeseries2.ndf.
Run the configuration wizard again.

Note: Please seek the assistance of your DBA to have this change since this is not supported by Technical support.

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