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cannot delete datastore from vcenter

Hi Experts,

I have one datastore and I want to delete it.
But it fails always.
On two host I was able to unmount it but on the third host its not possible.
No VMs running on this datastore.

Here is the error:

Call "HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume" for object "storageSystem-208" on vCenter Server "vCenterHBG.hbg.local" failed.
Cannot unmount volume 'Datastore Name: EXCH-LOGS-Mapping VMFS uuid: 5669c206-0f58317c-cc71-c81f66bde677' because file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation.

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Do you have any ideas ?

Eprs_Admin

ASKER

OK, now I have deleted the LUNs on my NETAPP attached to it.
All datastores are gone from my vcenter except one.

When I want to delete it, vcenter comes up with error failed:

Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-208" on vCenter Server "vCenterHBG.hbg.local" failed.
Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to query live VMFS state of volume.: No such file or directory

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Eprs_Admin

ASKER

can you help me to clean it up ?

SOLUTION

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Eprs_Admin

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Nothing is attached to the datastore.
I still cannot delete them.
On my NETAPP storage I have deleted all related LUNs.
Is there any way to delete the entry ?

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Hernan Ruggiano

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Eprs_Admin

ASKER

Hey Hernan,
you are right.
After the reboot of the host, the datastore was gone.

Thanks a lot.

Eprs_Admin

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thanks to hernan and Andrew.