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Thanks Andrew<br />
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I've gone in and checked the Cluster Status Dialog and the Drobo I'm looking at removing was indeed set as a Heartbeat datastore. settings <br />
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I've then gone in a set Datastore heartbeating to select any of the cluster datastores taking into account my preferences.<br />
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There I have ticked the two other Drobos we currently have presented.
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Thanks Andrew

I've gone in and checked the Cluster Status Dialog and the Drobo I'm looking at removing was indeed set as a Heartbeat datastore. settings

I've then gone in a set Datastore heartbeating to select any of the cluster datastores taking into account my preferences.

There I have ticked the two other Drobos we currently have presented.

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Hi Everyone<br />
<br />
I've been tasked with re-organizing our ESXi 5.5 datastores, in order to that I have to remove one of our Drobo's from Vsphere. &nbsp;I am following the advice for correctly removing the datastore that says to check that the datastore is not being used for vSphere HA heartbeat. <br />
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I'm not too sure whether it is, but when I browse the datastore there is a folder called <b>.VSphere-HA</b><br />
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Will I be OK to continue with the Unmount and Detach ?<br />
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Just wanted to double check :)<br />
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Thanks<br />
Matthew
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Hi Everyone

I've been tasked with re-organizing our ESXi 5.5 datastores, in order to that I have to remove one of our Drobo's from Vsphere.  I am following the advice for correctly removing the datastore that says to check that the datastore is not being used for vSphere HA heartbeat. 

I'm not too sure whether it is, but when I browse the datastore there is a folder called .VSphere-HA

Will I be OK to continue with the Unmount and Detach ?

Just wanted to double check :)

Thanks
Matthew

Removing a Datastore from VSphere/ESXi 5.5

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.