unable to delete datastore - The resource is in use

[tdubb123]

any idea why? datastore is empty

[SureshKumarMuth]

1. Goto datastore views in the vsphere client/webclient and check virtual machine tab to see if there are any virtual machine running from this DS.

2. Check if this datastore is configured as a HA heartbeat datastore for any cluster , that will block removing the datastore.

[tdubb123]

checked each cluster and no cluster using this DS for heartbeating. no templates or vms on this folder.

[tdubb123]

checked each cluster and no cluster using this DS for heartbeating. no templates or vms on this folder.

[SureshKumarMuth]

can you please post this output from ssh session of esxi host

1. go to datastore location

2. date

3. touch *

4. ls -al

Also perform a rescan once and try deleting the DS again.

[tdubb123]

[tdubb123]

rescanned but still cannoot delete

[hussainbte]

try to delete the datastore again and share the vmkernel log file from the host for that timestamp.. if you can share logs

[a_p_]

Check whether any of the VMs configurations still points to the datastore, e.g. to an .iso image in the VM's virtual CD-ROM settings. If so, set the CD-ROM to "Client-Device".

André

[Sauce18t]

I got burned by this and it turned out that I had a template on the datastore I wanted to delete.  I had to convert the template into a vm an then move it off the datastore.  I was thinking it was a dump lock file or something else more complex.

Hope this is the case for you to.

[SureshKumarMuth]

can you run this command and post the output

vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/<ds name>/vmkdump

looks like this DS has been configured as a dump partition for one of the hosts