Need help to remove an entry from the "orphan" ESXi4/vSphere inventory

I would apprecate a help because I seem to have managed to myself in a bit of a tie knot.

Having recently installed ESXi 4, we are moving some old servers VMWare 1.09 virtual machines to new ESXi box. I copied one of the virtual machines in the store and then added to the inventory database. When the machine refused to start then I tried to run the hardware upgrade process.

When this is not so, I have to admit that I do not and I then spent to the data store and delete the folder that contains this virtual machine instead of using the option "remove disc" in the context menu of the inventory.

So I find myself with an entry of the inventory that doesn't really exist anymore. I tried to copy the VM for exactly the same folder in the data store in the hope that this would then allow me to remove the inventory screen. However, when I right click on the object of the inventory, the options "remove disc" and "Remove from inventory" are both greyed out.

Is there another way to delete this orphan entry?

Thanks in advance.

Phil.

Hello

In ESXi, your inventory is maintained in the file /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml

Edit the file and see if the virtual computer is listed.  If this is the case, remove it.  For example:

<ConfigRoot>
<configEntry id="0000">
<objID>16</objID>
<vmxCfgPath>/vmfs/volumes/4b630d21-8dc368cb-98ea-002219654c96/BADVM.vmx</vmxCfgPath>
</configEntry>
....

</ConfigRoot>

The file backup, first of all, then delete < configEntry > to < / ConfigEntry >, save the file, and then restart the management agents. Once you sign in again with the VIC, we should have the virtual machine.

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