can't remove 2nd HDD

kj0 · February 2014

Hey all.

I'm having a little issue. I rebuilt vCenter a week ago, and I am unable to start on of my VMs as one of the VMDKs is unavailable. It isn't an issue that the vmdk is missing as it was just a second drive for labbing.
Without blowing away the VM, I am unable to remove this disk from the Settings, It does not allow me to click "OK", but it does allow me to tick the delete from datastore button (and it still is greyed out if I don't tick that box - Due to the VMDK missing from the datastore)

I have attempted from the WebClient and from CLI, I am unable to delete using the C# client as it is a VM Version 10.

ESXi 5.5

Thanks for your help guys.

kj0 · February 2014

I can enable the "OK" by adding a size to the drive. But it won't create, or delete - Just errors out and nothing remotely meaningful.

jibbajabba · February 2014

Have you tried to consolidate ?

Asif Dasl · February 2014

I would try to edit the VMX manually and upload it and overwrite it on the datastore.

Maybe others might have a better way of doing it.

kj0 · February 2014

Removed the entire Vm from the Inventory and re-registered it again, Working now.

Hmm... Very, very strange. The VMDK was sitting there with HDD0's VMDK as well.

can't remove 2nd HDD

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