'The operation is not allowed in the current state' message when deleting folder

[AnonAdmin]

I'm testing out ESXi 5.5 and mounted an NFS export-based datatsore in an effort to test out redirecting my ScratchConfig to this location. I've found that I can create a folder in the NFS datasore fine but, when I attempt to delete it, I get a message that states 'The operation is not allowed in the current state'. This occurs on any of the folders/sub-folders and the only account being used is Root - I've also confirmed that permissions on these directory's is drwxr-xr-x.

As suggested by KB1003829 which is somewhat helpful but not really, I have restarted the management agents on the host but it's made no difference. Has anyone else seen this?

[AnonAdmin · Accepted solution]

I got this resolved by stumbling upon the right guid for the NFS datastore. Only after clicking around in WinSCP and realizing that the NFS datastore had some secondary, shorter guid - I then tried to delete the original test directory again and it worked.

On a separate but similar note I then tried to update my scratch config location by applying that same guid with the command "vim-cmd hostsvc/advopt/update ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation string /vmfs/volumes/[guid]/logs" (followed by a host reboot) and it also worked.