remove replika / source which is inaccessible

[Gdriver]

I got some problems with the VirtualCenter in combination with VMware View. After a recomposition (failure) there are replika and source "virtual machines" in VirtualCenter left that are inaccessible. I can´t remove them from the inventory, because there is no option. I tried ut with reboot of all hosts, VirtualCenter, View Manager Server, removed all VMware View pools in the View Manager but nothing helped. The "replika" and the "source" Object/VM still remains there in VirtualCenter. And with the command line it doesn´t work because I would need the location but like i said there is no location because the datastore is empty.

There are absolutly NO files in the datastory, no directories. But when I browse to the summary of the datastore it still shows:

General

Number of Virtual Machines: 2

Thanks 4 you help

Message was edited by: Gdriver

[guyrleech]

Not sure if the SviConfig utility can help you here - take a look at

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[admin]

Have you tried the SVIConfig Tool?

Thanks,

Christoph

[Gdriver]

Yes, after some tries it worked.

sviconfig -operation=unprotectentity -VCURL=https://myvirtualcenter/sdk -Recursive=True -username=USERNAME -InventoryPath="/Folder/Datacenter/vm/VMwareViewComposerReplicaFolder/replica-6a14684c-626d-4b25-ad44-928984c33b41" -password="XXX"

It worked. First we tried the direct path without the "/vm/" element but that didn´t work. So we tried with the element. After successfully "unprotectentity", the "drop from inventory" was usable and the replica was gone....

A thing to enhance:

But the thing with clear password in the commandline isn´t that good... without username or / and password it runs into an error instead of asking for a user or / and a password. That would be a thing that VMware could enhance.

THX