Unable to Remove Inaccessible NFS Storage

[randomparity]

Trying to remove a read-only NFS mount which serves my ISO images on ESX 5.5.  Here's

what I see from the client UI.

Listing the NFS shares through esxcli shows nothing:

When trying to create a new datastore, same NFS server and share but different datastore name

I get the following error:

Where do I go to delete the old datastore?  There's no option to delete the existing "iso directory"

datastore:

There are no "Storage Providers" defined:

And none of the "Settings" appear to be configurable:

Any suggestions appreciated.

Dave

[bspagna89]

Hi Dave,

Welcome to the VMware Community!

Have you had a look at VMware KB: Unable to remove an inaccessible NFS datastore with Storage I/O control enabled ? I think this may do the trick.

You may just need to stop and start the service again if its not showing up in the list when you run esxcli command.

[randomparity]

Thanks.  I found this article earlier and followed its instructions (along with a system reboot) prior to my current situation.  That's why I included the output of the "esxcli storage nfs list" command, to demonstrate that my current problem doesn't appear to be related to the KB article.

On a separate note, I found that several VMs had snapshots that were taken while the problematic NFS share was still in use by the virtual machine (the Related Objects tab):

I'm in the process of removing the snapshots to see if that helps.

Dave

[randomparity · Accepted solution]

Turns out it was the snapshots.  I need to be more careful in the future and remove the ISO images from my VMs before taking s snapshot.

Dave