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Cannot remove orphaned usb disk from host

Hi,

I had an USB Disk connected to my host, it was associated and working. The USB went away due to a failure of it and I only see an Inactive or error device called "Local USB Direct-Access (naa.XXX), but I cannot remove it.

Any clue on how to remove the inactive device? I'm using ESXi 6.5

Thanks and best regards.

Jorge

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Finikiez
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The easiest way - restart the host.

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admin
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did you check below KB...

VMware Knowledge Base

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Yes, I have read it, but the disk is not present, it appears as Inactive or Error status. If I checked it via "esxcli storage core device list -d naa.XXX" the Status is "dead timeout".

I don't see either a datastore associated to it:

[root@] esxcli storage vmfs extent list

Volume Name              VMFS UUID                            Extent Number  Device Name                           Partition

-----------------------  -----------------------------------  -------------  ------------------------------------  ---------

DataStore02              58cfffc0-6523fba8-89fa-002cc8081d9c              0  naa.6006bf1d58d7cba02061fccc9d22785e          1

DataStore02-SSD          58d00b67-53ab967c-e69f-002cc8081d9c              0  naa.6006bf1d58d7cba02062becf681a7e8a          1

DataStore-FreeNAS-192GB  59e9bd33-b6307748-f661-002cc8081d9c              0  naa.6589cfc0000009958152880fcec11f04          1

None of these device is the failed USB disk. So, I cannot remove it from the detached ones:

[root@] esxcli storage core device detached list

NONE

[root@]

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Finikiez
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The easiest way - restart the host.

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serverhack
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That will work?? I have some VMs running and have to stop it all....

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Finikiez
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Definitely this should work.

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serverhack
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It worked!!! Thanks!!!