Hello all,
I have a bunch of old RDM devices to remove form my ESXi hosts. I have already deleted them from the Windows vms that were using them. They were used for some VMAX testing of some sort. I am trying to detach and remove from all they were attached to. There are a lot of RDMs and a lot of hosts so I use:
esxcli storage core device set --off -d naa.IDxxxxxx;
esxcli storage core device set --off -d naa.IDxxxxxx;
esxcli storage core device set --off -d naa.IDxxxxxx;
etc etc etc
The detach works fine and if I keep checking the devices stay detached. I have waited several hours and refreshed and they are still detached. So I proceed to:
esxcli storage core device detached remove -all
Not only does this not remove the devices from the hosts, the device actually show as attached after that. The same happens if I run the remove individually per device.
ESXi 931334 - Yeah its old but we are preparing for decom which is why this cleanup is being done. Anyone seen this? They are going to be unmasked soon so I do not want the hosts freaking out when that happens so I would like to get them removed.
Thanks in advance