Orphaned vmdk is not listed using the script

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

I am using this LucD's script to find the orpahed vmdks list. Script exists in the below URL.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/266913

I ran this script on vCenter as well as directly on ESXi. The script runs successfully and list nothing except the Datastore.

But when i checked the Datastore, i found some of orphaned vmdks. Looking for help to get exact list.

For example I attached the screenshot.

[mattboren]

Hello, nava_thulasi39-

I'd say that a hint as to why you are getting little/no output is contained in the PowerCLI session in your screenshot:  what is the error message shown there, that begins with, "Exception", a few lines after you presumably call the script?

[LucD]

I agree with Matt, the error message you get would be useful to analyse the problem

[nava_thulasi39]

Thanks for the reply.

When i ran this script in vCenter, I am getting the Except error. Again when i try to connect ESXi server directly, it runs without any error message but it didn't find any orphaned vmdks.

[LucD]

That looks like you might have

• a ghost datastore in your vCenter
• a datastore with some special characters in it's name

Does

Get-Datastore -Name 'datastore1 (3)'

return anything ?

Is that name in the list when you do

Get-Datastore

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Datastore: datastore1 (3) is the local datastore of another host which was down when i ran the script earlier.

So this datastore is available. Now the output is attached..

[LucD]

Did you run the script to find the orphaned folders/vmdk files again ?

Any errors this time ?

[nava_thulasi39]

Yes. I ran the script again. Except the Datastore name it doesn't give any output.

The output exists in the previous screen shot itself.. Thanks

[LucD]

Is that a VMFS or a NFS based datastore ?

If it's a VMFS datastore you could try the newer script from Orphaned files and folders – Spring cleaning

Btw did you check the settings of that VM called winxp3 ?

Where are its VMDK files located ?