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tdubb123
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a general system error occured: concurrent access

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

any idea?

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SureshKumarMuth
Commander
Commander

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

or

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

Regards,
Suresh
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TheBobkin
Champion
Champion

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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