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have you already checked this official KB against the issue? please do follow the steps and check the logs first.<br />
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Cloning or migrating virtual machine files fail with the error: Error caused by file<br />
(2009097) <br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsite" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsite</a><br />
s/search.do?language=en_US<wbr />&amp;cmd=displ<wbr />ayKC&amp;exter<wbr />nalId=2009<wbr />097
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have you already checked this official KB against the issue? please do follow the steps and check the logs first.

Cloning or migrating virtual machine files fail with the error: Error caused by file
(2009097)
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsite [http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsite]
s/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009097

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Totally agree, it's most likely a running process still accessing the files.
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Totally agree, it's most likely a running process still accessing the files.

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restarting the virtual host should work but i am wondering if this could be okay for a crticial business relying on virtualisation.
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restarting the virtual host should work but i am wondering if this could be okay for a crticial business relying on virtualisation.

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@bbao - it's a lab server, used for training!
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@bbao - it's a lab server, used for training!

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@andrew where can i see it is a lab server used for training please?<br />
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BTW, just repost the URL as the link was broken in my first comment posted from mobile phone.<br />
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<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009097" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009097</a>
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@andrew where can i see it is a lab server used for training please?

BTW, just repost the URL as the link was broken in my first comment posted from mobile phone.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009097 [http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009097]

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@bbao in the Askers history of questions!
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@bbao in the Askers history of questions!

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Hello Experts,<br />
<br />
I have deleted a VM from my ESXi host, I'm prevented from deleting the file from my datastore, see image.<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/01_w03/892965/asa.PNG" target="_blank" title="asa (29 KB)"><img alt="asa" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/01_w03/800_892965/asa.PNG" /></a><br />
Can someone help?<br />
<br />
Cheers
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asa.PNG

Hello Experts,

I have deleted a VM from my ESXi host, I'm prevented from deleting the file from my datastore, see image.



Can someone help?

Cheers

Unable to Delete VM Folder from ESXi host

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.