vicfg-nas datastore removal

[klevron]

I'm getting the following error when trying to use the vicfg-nas command to remove a NFS datastore from an vSphere ESXi host.

Unable to remove datastore: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary

The command works fine for listing and adding datastores.

I know it worked when used on ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts.

I first ran into the error when using the older Remote CLI package, but I still get the error after installing the vSphere SDK.

Anyone run into this and figured out a solution?

[stumpr]

Well, that fault is definitely from 'product versioning restrictions'. What's different about the system you're getting the error on?

[klevron]

It's not just one host.

It's every vSphere 4 host I've tried, ESX and ESXi.

I'm downloading the VMA appliance to see if that works any differently.

[stumpr]

Is this the free version of ESXi you're using? I think (by bug or by design) the api is read only against it. I believe that would throw that error.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

stumpr is correct, you would only see this error if you're using the free version of ESXi 3.5u1,u4 or 4.0 (U2,U3 allows for both read/write operations due to internal bug) and you can find more details here: http://vmetc.com/2009/03/31/esxi-u4-ends-free-version-read-and-write-access-from-the-rcli/

This should not be occurring on ESX if you have it properly licensed or using it in eval mode, you should have full read/write access to the API unless your license expired/etc. You may want to double check, pretty sure you're testing this against ESXi and not classic ESX.

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[klevron]

I've done some testing and you are right.

I can add and remove datastores using the RCLI on my ESX hosts, but not on the ESXi hosts that are using the free license.

Thanks!