Cannot remove vSphere HA stuff to remove a data store

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• Cannot remove the data store

  Hello

  I am trying to remove a shared in Vsphere 5.0 SAN data store, and it fails to say that the datstore is in use. When I try to take it apart there is a red cross next to the statement that no virtual machines must be present. The data store is empty and afaics no point of virtual machines don't have any disk pointing it at all. He got a present HA heartbeat folder but I've reconfigured HA no to use the DS and could then remove the folder HA and empty so the DA, but still in use reports

  Gerry,

  Is it possible that your virtual machine contains a cd connected to the data store? I came across that once where a virtual machine was showing that the use of two data warehouses, but there files were only in one. I found that I had connected the reader of cd/dvd via the client to a file that was in this other data store. Just a thought.

  The f

• Cannot remove the data store in esxi 3.5 - can help you

  OK - I have a problem. I messed up and now I'm stuck.

  I was "apparently" in the middle of a converter working, and I deleted the comments of esxi3.5, while the converter still worked.

  I selected the rafale and made a removal of the disc that worked, however the structure of associated file (windows 2000 Server) for this guest has not been deleted, so I chose my data store (datastore1) and - do you have a store of navigation data and when I try to delete the folder associated with the guest, I deleted I get the following error :

  "General failure caused by file" (with a "/" on the next line) and all I can do at this point is to click OK box to acknowledge the error and I can't delete the folder. I can't rename it either.

  I don't know how to get rid of it. I tried to create a new client with the same name as the folder and delete the comments again, but that does not work either.

  I'm really stuck - I'm afraid to go into maintenance mode because I have no idea what I'm going to be confronted here since I never used the maintenance mode.

  any help or ideas would be really appreciated.

  You can try to do a refresh of the data store. The folder structure is not re read very often. In the data store Navigator, click the folder root on the left side and click on the Refresh button.

• How to remove a data store abandoned?

  Hello! I am the systems administrator for my organization where we have HP P6300 storage attached to our cluster of ESXi5. Usually, if we need a new Vdisk to any virtual computer, we create a new vdisk in storage and add them as a new data store in Vsphere, then we create the file within this new data store vmdk. I had to remove a disk of a virtual server. The steps are as below:

  1 remove the data from the drive

  2. remove the disk from the virtual machine and delete the vmdk file

  3 remove the data from the cluster of data store store

  4. remove the data store

  5 remove the vCenter store data (inventory------Clusters data store and data warehouses-right click on the data store and delete)

  6 - anyone the vdisk to ESXi hosts

  7 remove the vdisk to Storage Manager.

  But I made a mistake and missed the STEP n ° 4 and 5.

  Now I see the attached message whenever I'm trying to remove it. Guidelines for this problem and remove this missing data store in the vCenter?

  Thank you

  Ali

  OK, you have a way of death. The only way to fix it must restart the host.

  Kind regards

  Julien

• Can I remove this data store?

  Hello guys,.

  I free up space in a storage, and for that to work correctly, I followed the following steps:

  1. I created a new data store in other containers for storage.

  2 - I did a migration of storage of the old data store to the new.

  3 - remove the old VMDATA.

  At this point, I glued, because the old data store is not empty... West a strange folder inside, but I don't know if I can remove it, as you can see in the image below.

  

  The question is: can I remove this data store? The showing on the photo, UID is the same UID of the LUN I want deleted.

  I use VMWARE ESXi 5.1 Enterprise Edition Plus.

  Kind regards

  Roberto

  files and folder in dotted lines are normally for the metadata of the data store itself.

  so, you can delete the data without any problem store.

  BTW. If you delete a data store and it is still used by a virtual machine the delet-job will be cancelled. There is a small security bit set

• Remove a data store

  I need to remove a data store so that I can reformat vmfs3 to vmfs5. It is my understanding that vcenter will not introduce any APD or correct payday loans? The LUN will remain visible to all guests, as I said I just need to remove the data store on this subject, so I can recreate it with vmfs5.

  I guess after I remove it, I should questions some hosts renumerisations (except done automatically vcenter) before I recreate?

  Thank you.

  You are right, since you don't anyone the LUN, there is no problem with ODA...

  Simply remove the data store and create a new one. After that you can rescan all hosts so that they detect the new format.

  André

• Safely remove a data store

  I need to remove for good 2 data stores.  I first clicked each guest vm using these data storages and delete selected.  Data warehouses now show as empty when he is gone.  Can I just to right click\delete each empty data warehouses?  I would like to delete the corresponding LUN on the SAN (VNX) as the last step.  Can someone verify that it's correct.  I remember having a problem with this some time ago.  vCenter is version 5 - ESX 4.0 U2.  Thank you.

  The procedure will be the same for 4.x, then Yes, there will be some host commands involved. It seems really involved, but it really isn't so bad. Much better than potential wickedness that could come to remove them is not the right way.

• Could not start the new virtual machine or VM remove a data store

  Hi guys,.

  I'm not new with ESXi, but my knowledge with vCenter and Clustering must be improved, so here's my problem.

  We have a Cluster of 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts on a San with 2 VMFS.

  My first problem is when I created a new virtual machine and try to start it, I got an error message similar to the one included with this post.

  My Second problem is more picky. Since I am unable to start my new virtual machine, I had removed from drive and I had created a new. But when I took a peek in the data store where was deleted VM, the directory with all the files are still there. When I try to delete it, I got an error message telling me that it is impossible to proceed.

  Q please?

  Best regards

  Stéphane

  82% of failure can be other issues.  The article below

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1006052

  Also, I saw, where bad records DB for your ESXi hosts can cause weird problems as well.  The host with the problematic guest, can you do a right click on it and "disconnect"?  Try to get out of the bunch at the data center level.  If you get an error vCenter, that means return folder DB.  From there, while the host is in a disconnected state, remove the host to vCenter, then "add host". This will update the DB record.  Maybe worth it?

• Error to remove empty data store - the resource is in use.

  Hello world

  I'm having a problem with the removal of my empty data VMFS3 store I rebooted the host already, but somehow, he's always stuck not asupprimer, can someone help me remove this empty data VMFS3 store please?

  Thank you.

  I like to use the tab 'Maps' to see if any SMV always access the data store.  It is much easier to check the settings for a good number of virtual machines.

  Select the "Maps" tab and just put a check mark in the box for VM to the data store

  Click apply relationships

  If there is no line in the data store to be deleted, it means that a virtual machine is always oriented to the data store.

  If this is the case, change the settings of the virtual machine so it does not more point to this data store.

• Cannot increase the capacity of VMFS 5.54 data store

  Hello
  I added more discs to my series of raid 10 expanded the logical volume,
  size is available and can be seen by esxi, but cannot select the logical unit number to extend the data store.
  See screenshot
  
  The increase in size is not possible
  When the data store is on the same logical drive as the esx system?
  Thanks for your help.

  See you soon

  Freez3

  Increasing the local data store on the installation disc is not possible through the user interface and cannot be supported. At http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-local-datastore-on-an-esxi4/ you can find a walkthrough on how to grow the local data store on ESXi 4.x with ESXi 5.0, you should not use «partedUtil resize...» "instead of fdisk (remove a recreate the partition) to change the size of the score well.

  For information about how to use partedUtil, see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609

  If you are not sure, please after the release of

  partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/"

  André

• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• Possible to remove the data store shared without deleting content?

  Is it possible to delete a data store shared a host, without actually deleting content?

  

  If there are several hosts who share a store of data and for some reason any I delete the data of one of them, store connection can I do this without a deletion of all the virtual machines on the data store, as shown in the warning above?

  You can delete single LUN on the side storage (for example by hiding the it).

  Before that... do not forget that without virtual machines are running on it.

  After that... do a rescan storage adapters.

  André

• Help! Cannot remove datastore - 'in service '.

  I tried all the suggestions there and still cannot delete a data store in my vCenter.

  (I was not able to restart the hosts, or even put them in maintnenace - is not an option at the moment).

  2-

  I did the following:

  -migrated all VM.

  -checked the vmx files all references to the data store

  -2 VMS found not in the inventory or under tension, which reference the data store - changed those

  -delete the folder .dvsData of the data store

  N ' is not used for HA (2 guests are not in a cluster)

  -made sure the IO control is disabled on all hosts

  -even chained: VMware experience before: how to disable the control of i/o storage for an unavailable data store

  -No snapshots exist on any virtual machine that * have * on this data store

  -also checked for orphans * - 00000x.vmdk on the migrated virtual machine - there is

  -disassemble the data store

  -It works from a host, but not the other.

  -disassembly of host1 gives the Red 'X' on ' there is no virtual machine (all others are green).

  -host2 disassembly disassemble the datastore on host2 but it always displays mounted on host1

  -remove the data store (whether or not they are mounted) fails with the error "current resource of use"

  SUCCESS!

  I wanted to say that I did restart services.sh since a SSH session.

  It does not work.

  Then I noticed I could remove, choose disassemble it a session directly to host2, but always without success.

  I went back to vCenter and got the red X on 'active VM' as soon as I tried to take it apart by the same host (Yes... Ah... the host will allow me to choose the unmount, but vCenter isn't... hmmm).

  I restarted the server vCenter, and Orient the data before vCenter services store could begin.

  Not sure if restarting vCenter did the trick, or disassembly and removal * before * vCenter services could begin did the trick.

  THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP!

  ANSWER:

  OP, do all these things.

  -Check the process opened using this:

  vsish EI ls/storage/scsifw/devices /<"naa. id="" of="" your="" datastore"="">/worlds/ | sed ' s: /:' | while read i; do ps | grep $i; done

  -Restart management on one or more hosts agents: services.sh reboot

  -Restart the server vCenter (or at the very least, restart the services of vCenter).

  At some point in this list, you should be able to dismantle and remove the data store.

• Cannot remove Datastore ESX 3.5

  Hi ESX veterans.

  I am a novice using ESX, and lately I just install ESX on a new Dell server, with 6 x 450 GB configured in a Raid 5 environment. I realized that once the ESX is complete, and VI client infrastructure is installed, there will be a default data store created using all available space with a block size of 1 MB.  In the latest installation of couple on older servers (which worked well), I simply remove the data store and to recreate another large block data store, so I can do a greater volume to install my OS.  But this time, I get this error:

  Configuring the host error: DestroyVmfsDatastore: cannot remove partition 2 on lun vmhba1:0:0

  I tried looked up the forums, but none seemed suggestion a resolution in my case.  (perhaps of persons using a SAN... etc, but the mine are internal HD from the server).  Some said that to do a re-scan, some have said go to maintenance mode, some said re - install all the ESX Server, which I've tried all.  But just can not remove this data store.  Acutally, I have not "mind leaving this one data store, as long as I can create a volume larger than 256 GB it contains.  Can anyone give me any suggestions?  Thank you.

  WingKChan

  Hello Wingchan,

  I don't think so that you can delete the partition your ESX Server, which is the more necessary to partition VMFS. You can delete when you have several stored VMFS mounted on your ESX. I'm assuming that the... but not sure.

  However, since you have to change the size of the block. You can try the VMFSKTOOLS command to change the size of the block. Remember that you will lose all the systems of comments that uses this data store. Please move them to the secure location if necessary.

  I put a link here to how to change the size of the block. (not my blog, obtained through Google)

  http://techblog357.blogspot.com/2008/01/ESX-Server-35-general-system-error.html

  To run this command, you must take the ESX Server console.

  Thank you

  Shan

• Remove a number from data store

  I am trying to remove a data store, so I can re add increasing the size of the block. the problem is that it is to say that the data store is in use. I removed all virtual machines of this datasore. refreshed. Disconnect and screw. Restart the esxi host is next to impossible that he is in a production environment with 10 virtual machines running. all ideas

  Mark

  Do you have other files (ISO etc.) on this data store?

  It looks like one of the natures of the virtual machine have a reference in the data store.

  Perhaps an orphan VM, which is still in the inventory or one currently powered off VM with a reference to the data store.

  André