Failed to delete Linked Clones

[mbletschin]

I have a pool of linked clones I want to get rid of but all the machines error on the delete with the following:

Failed to delete VM - Failed to cleanup linked clone

This is followed by the location fo the VM and says it is a composer error. Does anyone know how to make these delete?

[mittim12]

here is a KB article for manually deleting clones, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008658. This would be a short term fix as long term you would want to go over the composer logs and try to figure out why they didn't orignally delete.

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[Troy_Clavell]

see if this helps

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008658

[mbletschin]

The machines do not actually sit in the deleting state. It actually errors out, however I have no access to the pool either, it is greyed out. I am assuming once the machines are all gone then the pool will disappear also.

I can give those steps a try but it seems rather tedious to have to do that for a 25-50 machine pool. In my case I have a 10 machine pool and it still seems tedious.

[mittim12]

It may be tedious but there are a lot links to those clones in ADAM and the composer database so they are necassary. Have you checked the composer logs yet to see if you can the reason the clones failed to delete?

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