vCloud Host HDD Failure

[barnette08]

I am dealing with a host HDD failure that was running ESXi on local disk and the customer did not set it up for RAID.  From a vCloud/vCenter perspective, once I get the new drive back in the system and up and running - what's the easiest way to clean up vCloud and vCenter?  The host has been offline long enough I believe HA has taken over on the vCenter side and restarted the VMs on another host, but I am a little unclear what steps might need to be taken on the vCD side since it still thinks the host is there just inaccessible.

Just add the host, and do an 'unprepare' on the phantom entry?

[IamTHEvilONE]

ideally, you should just unprepare the phantom entity.  this will only work if the phantom host shows zero vms on it from vCloud Director.

In a worst case situation:

1. clear inventory tables, and property map

2. remove the bad host from managed_server table