Orphaned Replica

[PhilNyeTheITGuy]

After a failed attempt to add a new Automated Floating (Linked Cloned) Desktop pool I had to manually delete the Desktop pool. I removed all desktops from the ADAM database, Vcenter, and Active directory.  I had to connect to the host directly with vsphere to delete the replica. Of course now in the my vcenter the vm is orphaned.

I ran the following command, replacing VMName with the replica name.

SviConfig -operation=RemoveSviClone -VmName=VMname -AdminUser=TheLocalAdminUser -AdminPassword=TheLocalAdminPassword -ServerUrl=TheViewComposerServerURL

The cmd returned with "SviConfig finished with an error. Exit code: 23 VM name is not found in the database"

View Admin - 6.1.0 build-2509221

Agent Version - 6.1.0 2509441

Host - ESXI, 6.0.0, 3380124

Please help

Thank You

[douglasarcidino · Accepted solution]

All you need to do to remove the Orphaned replica is to right-click on the inventory object and select remove from inventory. If the replica and the pool are gone, this all you need to do. The sviconfig command was for removing it from the view database, not the vcenter inventory.

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