Hi Everyone,
I have a VM that I cannot shutdown. It's causing "Update child resource configuration" tasks every second on the host it resides on.
I have tried to shut it down from the GUI - no luck
I have tried to shut it down from the command line with:
There's this KB that can help you in powering off an unresponsive VM
I once succesfully used the method mentioned at the bottom of the article after failing with all other methods.
Ive tried everything in that KB article with no luck
Have you tried migrating it to a different host and attempting to power it off?
Hi,
Doing that presents me with a "invalid state" error message.
Probably worth checking the logs to see if there are any clues, the host logs where the VM is running and the vmware.log file for the VM itself. Let us know what you see in there.
I eventually deleted the VM files (nothing was locking them) and restarted the management services on the host it was assigned to and it changed the status to orphaned. I was then able to remove it from the inventory from the vsphere gui. Therefore all is well
Thanks guys