09.01.2017 · I missed steps to remove a datastore. In vCenter. Moved all Vm to another datastore. [missed Step] Move/delete template. Unmounted datastore. [missed step] delete datastore. Detached LUn from each ESXi. Unpresented from Storage. In an attempt to delete the datastore, I tried these steps. In vCenter. Delete from inventory the missed out template.
10.11.2020 · 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.
Sep 18, 2019 · Check out if the datastore is specified as a location of logs in the ESXi host settings. Go to Manage -> Settings -> Advanced System Settings. Find ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation and Syslog.global.logDir and if your VMFS datastore is specified in it, change the path to the logs directory.
Nov 10, 2020 · Now, restart the ESXi host or restart the Syslog Server service on the host. 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
09.10.2019 · If you don't have access to ESXi directly, you'll have to mount the datastore somewhere that has full read/write permissions to that location and delete it that way. 0 Kudos Share Reply mahmn Enthusiast 10-10-2019 08:17 AM a.p.
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
08.03.2019 · Unable to delete an inaccessible datastore I was switching my storage array, so I migrated the VMs from that old datastore/storage to a new …
18.09.2019 · The ‘ datastore is in use ’ error won’t not appear again. Select the ESXi hosts to unmount the datastore from. Or you can make Detach from the list of connected storage devices on the ESXi host. The connection state will then change to Detached. After that you can remove the VMFS store (Delete Datastore) and it will disappear from vSphere.
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: so let’s try to delete from command line (from ESXi host) but got the error message:“ can’t remove ‚AD-flat.vmdk‘: Device or resource busy “ because the file is still locked by ESX.
Oct 10, 2019 · 10-10-2019 07:50 AM. Jump to solution. Tayfun and I were suggesting that you ssh to the host, open the shell and use rm to delete the files directly. If you don't have access to ESXi directly, you'll have to mount the datastore somewhere that has full read/write permissions to that location and delete it that way.
Mar 08, 2019 · Unable to delete an inaccessible datastore from an ESXi hosts. The datastore is presented on the ESXi hosts and and is marked as Inaccessible.
I have tried deleting the folder and I have tried the individual files with no success. I'm working with ESXi 6.7. Edit: I created a folder systems72bad and was ...