What's awkward here is that: Previously I was told to always unmount then delete datastores, then remove the mapping from my SAN, then delete the volume on the SAN- which always worked in 5.5 and in 6.5.. But when following this in 6.7, the datastores reappear after about 20 seconds as inaccessible as if I only deleted them from the SAN.
Unable to delete files and folders from datastore. Garnock12. by Garnock12 This person is a Verified Professional ∙. Solved VMware. I am trying to remove ...
Oct 10, 2019 · In vSphere 6.7, I want to delete a folder in datastore, but the delete button is disabled. I guessed that non-emty folders won't be deleted. However, after deleting files inside the folder, still I can not remove the folder. Please see the picture below.
Dec 19, 2016 · VMware ESXi - Cannot delete file from datastore - When you try and delete an orphaned VM or your old VM you get the error: Device or resource busy" because
Nov 10, 2020 · Let us try to unmount the datastore from the ESXi host again. Go to Manage -> Storage -> Storage Device. Find the corresponding LUN in the list, select it, and click Detaches the selected device from the host. Delete partition table of VMFS datastore At times, the unmount operation still fails even after changing the paths to the log directory.
10.10.2019 · In vSphere 6.7, I want to delete a folder in datastore, but the delete button is disabled. I guessed that non-emty folders won't be deleted. However, after deleting files inside the folder, still I can not remove the folder. Please see the picture below.
10.11.2020 · Cannot unmount volume Datastore Name VMFS “file system is busy”. This generally happens while trying to unmount the VMFS Datastore from ESXi hosts. Based on the error, it is clear that the VMFS datastore cannot be removed since ESXi hosts or vSphere are still using storage to write some data.
I am trying to remove a data store, but it is impossible to delete the HA heartbeat, and they are not deleted it I put my favorite heartbeat data for other ...
There was no files, snapshots or templates. In fact, the datastores show 0 B of capacity. Storage I/O Control (SIOC) wasn’t enabled on the datastore. Access via SSH to delete the datastore from there, but these two datastores were not listed. This wasn’t an Orphaned Datastore, the Delete Datastore option wasn’t grayed out, it just didn’t work.
19.12.2016 · VMware ESXi - Cannot delete file from datastore - When you try and delete an orphaned VM or your old VM you get the error: Device or resource busy" because
18.09.2019 · Unmount VMFS volume vmesxi2.woshub.com. The resource 'Datastore Name: MSA2000_LUN1 VMFS uuid: xxxxx--xxxxx-x-xxxxx-xxxx' is in use. Cannot unmount volume Datastore Name VMFS “file system is busy”. Based on the error, it is clear that the VMFS datastore cannot be removed since ESXi hosts or vSphere are still using storage to write some …
Oct 03, 2018 · If your end goal is to remove (unmount) the datastore and don't really care about the files on it, unpresent it from the hosts on the storage array and reboot the hosts. Once the hosts are rebooted, they should not see this datastore anymore.