Environment: 20 servers, VMWare Farm, v5.0.
2TB Fibre attached LUN mapped to all hosts in the cluster as VMFS3. LUN was destroyed. It was not (as seen below) under the storage control pool "Production Disk". Need to remove this dead volume so I can add a copy of the volume back with the same name.
Right click Volume -> Delete
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Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-606" on vCenter Server "vc01.aessatl.arrow.com" failed. |
Google gets hits on NFS versions (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=103739... ) of this removal process but no "properties" option can be accessed with the volume offline. So their is no way to remove it from Storage I/O control.
VMWare Volume Offline |
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Tried to SSH into the system directly and as noted in entries related to this error, force unmount and removal of the volume.
SSH Removal Attempt |
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~ # esxcli storage filesystem list Mount Point Volume Name UUID Mounted Type Size Free ------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------- ------- ------ ------------------- ------------------- /vmfs/volumes/48ae6b3e-36d0cdaf labfiles 48ae6b3e-36d0cdaf true NFS 1449551462400 146889039872 /vmfs/volumes/4c51b3b7-bfb2faee-55bb-001a6459f874 vmfs2 4c51b3b7-bfb2faee-55bb-001a6459f874 true VMFS-5 1992596389888 149034106880 /vmfs/volumes/4c4e0eb7-561ea784-d8bc-00145ed56dd2 vmfs0 4c4e0eb7-561ea784-d8bc-00145ed56dd2 true VMFS-5 1992596389888 142396620800 /vmfs/volumes/4c4e0ed5-7337d28a-c88b-00145ed56dd2 vmfs1 4c4e0ed5-7337d28a-c88b-00145ed56dd2 true VMFS-5 1992596389888 159938248704 /vmfs/volumes/4f3a83ea-68bca8ed-9465-e61f133b5277 vmfs3 4f3a83ea-68bca8ed-9465-e61f133b5277 true VMFS-5 7021786302599163750 1248136196516808178 /vmfs/volumes/4f7b4da5-3080997e-4b0c-00145ed58288 vmfs4 4f7b4da5-3080997e-4b0c-00145ed58288 true VMFS-5 3298266447872 2419947732992 /vmfs/volumes/4f2be6e2-558576c3-5234-001a64760061 4f2be6e2-558576c3-5234-001a64760061 true vfat 4293591040 4257939456 /vmfs/volumes/113d2a77-f5150d49-9073-4f748fd9134d 113d2a77-f5150d49-9073-4f748fd9134d true vfat 261853184 122101760 /vmfs/volumes/52a15d7d-2a7dd8b9-96dd-e20ce415e5f0 52a15d7d-2a7dd8b9-96dd-e20ce415e5f0 true vfat 261853184 108527616 /vmfs/volumes/4f2be6cb-edc71c48-ca6f-001a64760061 4f2be6cb-edc71c48-ca6f-001a64760061 true vfat 299712512 114843648 ~ # esxcli storage Usage: esxcli storage {cmd} [cmd options] Available Namespaces: core VMware core storage commands. nmp VMware Native Multipath Plugin (NMP). This is the VMware default implementation of the Pluggable Storage Architecture. vmfs VMFS operations. filesystem Operations pertaining to filesystems, also known as datastores, on the ESX host. nfs Operations to create, manage and remove Network Attached Storage filesystems. ~ # esxcli storage vmfs remove vmfs3 Error: Unknown command or namespace storage vmfs remove vmfs3 |
Question: What is the process to unbind this volume from Storage Control and then remove it?
Stupid Question:
Is it possible to put one of the hosts in maintenance mode and reboot it to see what happens?
Maybe look over this post: