Remove Datastores in vSphere 6.7

[LeoKurzKDA]

Hello,

I'm about to retire an old storage system. All the datastores are evacuated, storage-clusters removed. According to the best-practices, if you want to use powershell, you should use the "Detach-Datastore" commandlet. But there is no such commandlet in the latest PowerCLI anymore. There also is no "unmount-datasore". I still asume you have to detach the LUNs before unpersenting them to avoid APD issues, but I don't want to do this all by hand as there are quite a lot LUNs and paths.

Any idea?

Regards

__Leo

[Lalegre · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Here i recommend you to use these two resources from two members of the communities:

• Test if the datastores can be unmounted: https://www.lucd.info/2012/04/15/test-if-the-datastore-can-be-unmounted/
• Datastore Mount/Unmount Detach/Attach functions

[daphnissov]

How to Cleanly Remove a vSphere Datastore

[Nawals]

Here is the powercli script to unmount and detached multiple datastores.

Unmount and Detach Multiple Datastores from VMware ESXi Hosts