Virtual machine caught in migration state

[mctigue]

I have a virtual machine that I attempted to migrate to another datastore using svmotion from the command prompt. However, due to space issues on the original datastore, the migration failed to complete. Now my virtual machine fails to start and the only option I have when I right click on the vm from within the VI client is to "Complete Migration...". All other options such as "Power On", "Power Off", "Delete from Disk", etc are all grayed out. At this point I no longer care to complete the migration. I have a new system running so I now need to delete this virtual machine. How can I complete this when all my options are grayed out? Is there a command in the ESX console I can use? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

S.

[athlon_crazy]

Hmmm you could try to kill the running VM or stop it if necessary.

1) Check any task running in the background

• $vimsh

• $vimsvc/task_list

(ManagedObjectReference) [

'vim.Task:haTask-384-vim.VirtualMachine.createSnapshot-2487'

]

2) Cancel the task if possible with

• $vimsvc/task_cancel ID

3) Check your running VM PID & try to stop or kill it if necessary.

• $ps auxfww | grep vm-name

• $kill -INT pid

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[lamw]

Here is a nice blog post by Mr. Duncan: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/

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[mctigue]

Both posts were helpful with troubleshooting and ultimately being able to identify what processes were hanging.