Storage still holds base disks related to Deleted catalog (MCS).

Storage still holds base disks related to Deleted catalog (MCS).

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Article ID: CTX316592

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Description

  • Unable to cleanup the LUN (Storage) related to Deleted catalog.
  • The LUN related to a Deleted machine catalog still holds file and base disks.
  • Unable to delete them Manually on hypervisor as well.
  • The Delete task Completes with Failure:

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Environment

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Resolution

Following below steps, will allow to delete the files\folders from Storage (LUN):
  • Create new folder under DataStore on Hypervisor.
  • Move the files\folders and base disks from the Storage (LUN) to the new folder.
  • Attempt to delete manually.

Problem Cause

Issue seems to be related to Permissions on Hypervisor.

Additional Information

Referred VMware Discussion:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Cannot-delete-VMDK-files-automatically-or-manually/td-p/2297410
 
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