Hi There! I am the IT Systems Administrator for my organization where we have HP P6300 storage connected to our ESXi5 cluster. Usually, if we require a new Vdisk for any VM, we create a new vdisk in storage and add it as a new datastore in the Vsphere, then we create the vmdk file inside that new data store. I was to remove one disk from one virtual server. The steps i follow are as below:
1- Remove data from disk
2- Remove disk from virtual machine and delete vmdk file
3- Remove data store from the data store cluster
4- Unmount datastore
5- Delete the data store from vCenter (Inventory \ Datastores and Datastore Clusters \ Right Click on Datastore and Delete)
6- Unpresent the vdisk from ESXi hosts
7- Delete the vdisk from storage manager.
But i made a mistake and missed STEP No. 4 and 5.
Now i can see the attached message whenever i try to remove it. Any guidelines to solve this problem and remove this missing datastore from the vCenter?
Thanks
Ali