I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in maintenance mode. When I try to delete the datastore, the vSphere client throws this error:
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-543" on vCenter Server "ER-VCENTER.myDomain.com" failed.
The vmkernel log contains these entries:
Nov 22 15:17:50 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:13.160 cpu8:4118)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x5
Nov 22 15:17:50 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:13.162 cpu8:4118)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x0
Nov 22 15:17:50 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:13.167 cpu10:4118)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x0
Nov 22 15:17:50 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:13.168 cpu10:4118)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x0
Nov 22 15:17:52 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:14.600 cpu8:4120)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x0
Nov 22 15:17:52 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:14.603 cpu14:4233)DevFS: 3791: Overflow detected (numDiskBlocks 5754945792)
Nov 22 15:17:52 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:14.663 cpu9:4119)WARNING: ScsiCore: 1399: Invalid sense buffer: error=0x0, valid=0x0, segment=0x0, key=0x0
Nov 22 15:17:52 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:05:34:14.667 cpu4:4236)DevFS: 3791: Overflow detected (numDiskBlocks 5754945792)
I have also tried connecting directly to the ESX box via the client, but get the same error. I should also note that this datastore is on local drives...
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
tia,
Bill