08.03.2017 · I have a data store in ESXi that's marked as inactive. It originates from a host that's no longer part of vCenter, so I'd like to remove it, but am unable as the "Delete datastore" option is grayed out. How do I go about removing it? ESXi 6.0, vCenter 6.5. Edited Mar 8, 2017 at 15:13 UTC
04.05.2011 · We have just recovered from a near disaster at a site where a faulty RAID controller took out 3 disks of a RAID6 set on an HP MSA2000 SAN. We've got the RAID set back up again and after rescanning can now see one datastore in vCentre however I …
13.01.2020 · Can't delete 'orphaned' datastore - shows as 'inactive' in vCenter. I had provisioned a datastore (3Par based SAN) that was exported/exposed to all 5 of our esxi 6.5 hosts. We removed everything off of the datastore, so I attempted to remove it as it was no longer needed.
09.01.2017 · make sure it detached with esxcli storage core device detached list. permanently remove device config with esxcli storage core device detached remove -d naa.xxxx. I had another one to remove and managed to figure out how to do it correctly by adding another step after 2. 2.1 Click inactive datastore -> Actions -> Delete Datastore. Then continue.
10.11.2017 · How to Delete inactive datastore in vCenter 6.5(vCSA) Jump to solution. I have removed a vsphere host , but its local datastorage still listed in vcenter, showing inactive status, when I want to remove it,The Options are grayed, how do I remove it? Preview file 183 KB 2 Kudos Share. Reply. All ...
06.01.2018 · Power down all VMs on the datastore you wish to remove. Unregister all powered down VMs from inventory. Unmount the datastore from all hosts. Detach the device from all hosts. Rescan for storage devices. Five steps, and you need to do them in this order if you want clean removal of the datastore from your vCenter’s inventory while preserving ...
14.11.2012 · Remove an inactive datastore from the vCenter Server inventory This issue may occur if the datastore was removed from the ESX host before removing it from the vCenter Server Inventory. To resolve this issue, you must manually remove the datastore references from the vCenter Server Inventory.
Fix: Remove Inaccessible datastores from vCenter inventory. 0. admin written 1 year ago. During a DR Scenario executed for a client, we encountered a rather classical error, several dismounted datastores that couldn’t be removed from vCenter, because the Storage team was eager to un-present them, ...
28.04.2021 · Delete the datastore/Remove from inventory option from ESXi host won’t work. ... Chances are more that you won’t be able to remove an inactive NFS or an ISCSI datastore during an APD situation so it’s worth, ... Logon to vCenter and this time the zombie datastore will be …
15.04.2015 · How to Remove an Inactive NFS Datastore on VMWare ESXi Host. ... Call “HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore” form object “datastoreSystem-28″ on vCenter Server “xxxx” failed. CannotRemove datastore ‘datastore_name’ because Storage …