a general system error occured: concurrent access

tdubb123 — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:07:08 GMT

unable to delete a powered off VM. It does not have any snapshots

any idea?

Re: a general system error occured: concurrent access

SureshKumarMuth — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:15:58 GMT

1.Take a direct vsphere client session to the host and try deleting it.

2. Remove the vm from inventory and delete the VM folder manually by browsing the datastore.

Re: a general system error occured: concurrent access

TheBobkin — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:21:09 GMT

Hello,

Where are you trying from? vCenter/Web Client? If from vC then try directly from connection to the host it is registered on.

Is the Delete from disk button greyed out? Can you un-register it and then delete the namespace folder and contents via datastore browser?

Check that it is truly powered off and/or not hung by going to its namespace folder via SSH (cd /vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/VM_Name/) and if there are any files present that indicate that it is powered-on/hung (a .vmx~ &/or .vswp files etc.) then try to kill the VM world or move these files into a temp folder so the machine can be managed. Check if there are any VM processes either way I guess using the steps below or esxtop (press v and see if there is IO from the VM):

https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014165

Worst case scenario you could forcibly rm the files from the datastore location via SSH.

Bob

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