I am trying to delete a file on an iSCSI LUN and it keeps failing. When I try to delete it from the command line on one of the hosts I receive the error "
Hi,
Please give what command you use to delete the file?
What file are you trying to delete (vmdk, flat-vmdk,vswp)?
And what's the error in the ESX(i)Server?
I first tried deleting the file by browsing the datastore through vCenter. When that failed I logged into a host's CLI and just tried to remove it with the rm command. There are a few files that this is happening to on multiple datastores, all of different types. It appears to have been an error with a storage vMotion that caused it. In vCenter it simply states "Cannot delete file" and on the command line it tells me "File does not exist"
Hi,
Without looking the log files or screen shot, difficult to assume it.
When doing the activities, just take the screen shot as well as log from vmkernel.
If the error is resource busy - the file got locked. As you say, The error is file doesn't exist - Need to look why the message is file doesn't exist.
Hi.
Have u check with Rescan Disk for the Datastore
or Once reboot the Host and rescan the Datastore after try to delete the same
Make sure before rebooting the host enable it in Maintenance Mode.