Our physical vcenter server crashed over the weekend and I ended up building a new one on a VM. I've got mostly full clone desktop pools, but do have a couple of small linked clone pools. I have no problem losing these VM's. I'm unable to remove these now that the original vcenter server is out of commission, as I receive "cannot connect to the vcenter server" message when I try to delete these pools. Can anyone advise on a manual process to remove these pools from View?
You'll have to use sviconfig cmd to remove the orphaned linked clones. Refer to the following link - VMware KB: Manually deleting Replica virtual machines in Horizon View
vcpguy wrote:
You'll have to use sviconfig cmd to remove the orphaned linked clones. Refer to the following link - VMware KB: Manually deleting Replica virtual machines in Horizon View
I think that one goes over just the replica machines. You can also use this one to get rid of the stale VM's (clones) linked to the replicas, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015112.
I think you are right.