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lmorel
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Cannot delete inactive datastore and other issues...

I cannot delete an inactive datastore from my cluster. It shows under Inventory, Datastores. But it doesn't show under Hosts and Clusters. I am a newbie and I probably did some stupid things along the way.

I had that datastore available yesterday. Then I installed the Rollup Update 2 on both hosts successfully. When it came back on, the system said it removed the problematic datastore. I didn't do it, or at least I'm sure that I didn't. So then I tried to add it again and that's when it said to use the same signature or resign it. I think I made a mistake because it created a new datastore starting with the "snapxxxxxxx...". 2 VMs cannot start because some of their VMDKs were on that datastore. I have a copy of the folders for both VMs and I backed them up to be safe. But how do I fix this issue now? I'm sorry if I don't explain this right. I am sweating right now...

What should I do? I tried to delete the inactive datastore so I could recreate one with the same name. It won't let me delete it. Can't even select that option as it is greyed out. Or do I need to rebuild the VMs or reconfigure them?

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athlon_crazy
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That's the good thing to hear when you unable to remove the datastore. At least your original VMs are there. BTW, since you already backup your VM. Please identify whether your VMs are still running from older datastore or not. I think that's probably why you we unabled to remove it.






vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta

vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite

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lmorel
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The datastore I am trying to delete is empty. I move the fodler containing VMDK files to a different datastore. I have HA turned on those 2 hosts and I have a cluster config.

Let me explain my problem:

One VM had 3 hard drives. 2 under one datastore (working fine) and one drive under the problematic datastore that is inactive. I can't boot the VM because of that. Because I am missing that datastore. I know I probably assign a new signature to that inactive datastore. I am really trying to get that VM back online if i can fix that 3 drive (meaning relocating to the right datastore and have the vmx file edited to reflect so). Does that make sense?

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lmorel
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I removed the VMs from the inventory and recreated the VM by pointing to the good datastores. The VMs booted up fine. But i still can't delete that inactive datastore that has been giving me trouble. Under Inventory, Datastores for that inactive datastore, I select the Summary tab, then under General it says "Virtual Machines and Templates: 1". But if I try to browse that datastore, there is absolutely nothing. It's empty. Any ideas?

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athlon_crazy
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Have you try to connect to ESX directly and remove the datastore or restart ESX management service?






vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta

vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite

http://www.no-x.org

http://www.no-x.org
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lmorel
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Thank you!!!!

Rebooting the 2 hosts fixed the problem of deleting that "ghost" datastore... I was WAY too nervous to do anything since I got my VMs back online. But i guess I had to reboot at some point in the future. What a 4th of July...... Smiley Happy

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