I'm finishing up a evaluation of VMware View 3 and I've deleted all pools and VM's via the View Manager. However the only piece left behind viewable through VC is a folder which help the replica's call "VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder". I'd like to get this cleared up but am unable to delete it as I get a general system error. Any ideas? Thanks.
Goto C:\Program Files\VMware Inc\View Composer\
You will find a tool calles SVIConfig.exe
With this tool you can release the folder.
SviConfig
–operation=UnprotectEntity –VcUrl=https://<vchostname>/sdk
-Username=<VC account name> -Password=<VC account password>
-InventoryPath=”/<Datacenter name>/vm/VMWareSviReplicaFolder"
Goto C:\Program Files\VMware Inc\View Composer\
You will find a tool calles SVIConfig.exe
With this tool you can release the folder.
SviConfig
–operation=UnprotectEntity –VcUrl=https://<vchostname>/sdk
-Username=<VC account name> -Password=<VC account password>
-InventoryPath=”/<Datacenter name>/vm/VMWareSviReplicaFolder"
Thanks. I'm all set.
Can someone provide me an example of the format of the replica-folder?
I am using
InventoryPath="MyDC/vm/replica-d719637a-07b6-4ffd-8871-"
I got the folder name from the ESX server.
Any feedback is appreciated
When I run this command it logs in to the VC successfully but comes back with the message "entity not found?
I am trying to delete the folder named VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder in dCenter1
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Issued resolved. My syntax was incorrect
What was your syntax?
Under the Virtual Machines and Template Inventory view, I am trying to delete the VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder under my data center called OIG. Here is my syntax:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer>SviConfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -VcUrl=https://s23
9a60/sdk -Username=root -Password=mypassword -InventoryPath="/OIG/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder"
Establishing connection to the VC server.
VC server connection established successfully.
Looking for the entity on the VC server.
SviConfig finished with an error. Exit code: 11
Entity not found.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer>
Any suggestions?
Got it. Here is my syntax. In my view my datacenter is OIG and underneat that I have the VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder. And then under that is my replica vm's. Not sure why I needed add the vm folder path but it worked.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer>SviConfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -VcUrl=https://s23
9a60/sdk -Username=root -Password=mypassword -InventoryPath="/OIG/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/r
eplica-02a7c1ef-5ad0-4282-81ef-e5371aab27f1"
Establishing connection to the VC server.
VC server connection established successfully.
Looking for the entity on the VC server.
VirtualMachine found.
SviConfig finished successfully.
VirtualMachine with MoId vm-6746 sucessfully unprotected.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer>
I am trying to remove some orphans, and having problems with this command. My VC server s ihscvdivc01 and my datacenter is ihscvdi.
SviConfig -operation=UnprotectEntity -VcUrl=https://ihscvdivc01/sdk -Username=%myADusername% -Password=%myADpassword -InventoryPath=/ihscvdi/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/source-lc-58c2dff1-9f1e-4ffe-99f0-080c99faf503 -Recursive=True
I get exit code 11
I see that other are using root for this command. How are you using root to log in to the windows VC server? My VC connection fails when I try that.
Any help is apreciated.