Can't delete VM

[mescobarhms01]

We have a VM that we are unable to delete. When you right click on the VM in Infrastructure Client, the only options are:

Snapshot > Snapshot Manager

Complete Migration...

Add Alarm...

Add Permission...

Open Console

Report Performance...

When attempting the complete migration, it throws an error saying it cannot find a certain file on the datastore. However, I can view the file in the datastore. Any ideas why this VM is stuck and anyway to delete it? Also curious as to how this situation occurs.

[Lightbulb]

From the cli run the following

for machine in `vmware-cmd -l` ; do echo $machine `vmware-cmd $machine getstate` ; done

Which will show the state of all your VMs. What is the state reported for the the VM?

[mescobarhms01]

The state shows as powered off. GUI shows the same thing (lack of green play symbol)

[ShouldEye]

Restart the VC service

[rabih_00 · Accepted solution]

try the following:

Login to the ESX console and run those 2 commands :

service mgmt-vmware restart

service vmware-vpxa restart

No impact on your running VMs.

Good Luck