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khairulnizam
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Orphaned Datastore

Hi,

Facing problem with few of datastore in a cluster. Remove few of them but still there is other hosts in the same cluster showing the datastore.

Question:

How we can remove it as the LUN presented already unpresent from the ESX hosts.

thanks for the answer.

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janardhanr
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Hi,

Did you try to rescan the HBA, that will remove it from the HOST if not , try to remove it from the HOST in vCenter.

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Jana.

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khairulnizam
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Try all known ways ..

from the VC .. and also from the SC .. still the same result.

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janardhanr
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Could to paste the error message and the screenshot? Follow the below as well.

Step 1)

1. Open Virtual Infrastructure Client and select the 'Hosts and Clusters' view

2. Select one of your ESX hosts

3. Select the 'Configuration' tab

4. Select 'Storage (SCSI, SAN, and NFS)' from the left-hand menu (under the 'Hardware' section)

5. Right-click the datastore and select 'Remove'

6. ReScan the HBA

Step 2 )

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006219

Step 3)

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015084

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Jana.

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khairulnizam
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Hi,

try 1st KB .. still the same. 2nd KB it for

Product Versions:

VMware ESX 4.0.x

VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded

VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable

i am running on ESX3.5U5

Attached is the error.

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janardhanr
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Can you use VI client and login into the server and remove it manually?

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khairulnizam
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Try that with the same error.

Other option i not yet try is to reboot the ESX. I need to consider that as a last option but if there is someone out there able to resolve this by rebooting the ESX host then I will give a try.

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janardhanr
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I hope you need to put it in the maintiance mode and take a restart, I dont see any other is possible.

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khairulnizam
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Thanks Jana for the advice. I will try to reboot it and update here later on.

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khairulnizam
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Seem like rebooting the ESX solved my problem.

Thanks jana for the time ..

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