Datastore in use when trying to delete

[A13x]

I am trying to delete a datastore but it keeps on saying something is using it but there is nothing on the datastore. How do i go about finding out what is trying to use it preventing me from deleting it?

[admin]

Check that no ESX hosts have VMs running pointing to that

datastore.

I had one case, we found that one of the VMs had a CD attached to it with an

ISO pointing to that datastore.

As soon as CD was set to Client device and no pointing to ISO customer was

able to delete datastore completely.

Rick Blythe

Social Media Specialist

VMware Inc.

[A13x]

the datastore has nothing on it, no iso or anything, it has never had an iso so nothing can point to it apart from a VM but all VMs have been migrated over and i would have thought that VMs would not start if they were pointing to a old datastore with nothing on it

[arpitmpatel13]

You can try this:

If Datastore is on SAN, delete the LUN from SAN itselt and than rescan the Storage Adapters from vCenter.

Please Check whether you have assigned whole LUN to VMware or not... If not, than avoid using above step.

Thanks