Comments on: Successfully delete a Nutanix Container

By: rclermont1

rclermont1 — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:10:24 +0000

In my case after I deleted files from Storage Container then I was able to delete the container in PRISM.

Awesome!!!!

By: magander3

magander3 — Sun, 14 May 2017 18:32:05 +0000

Hi,
ok if HA is disabled the I would suggest you to list the files on the container via the CVM instead. try

nfs_ls -lah /container and see if you can find any files

Thanks

By: Netman

Netman — Wed, 10 May 2017 15:43:23 +0000

Just tried disabling HA in my test cluster to unmount a stuck datastore. Still says “Busy” unfortunately.

ls-lah shows nothing in the directory. Prism says the datastore is using 1.5GB, so I don’t know what that’s about, lol.

In Prod, the datastores i’m trying to unmount that are stuck all have 0GB used in Prism, and an ls -lah shows nothing in them.

By: magander3

magander3 — Wed, 10 May 2017 10:19:21 +0000

Unfortunately just removing datastore heartbeat didn’t help I actually had to disable HA entirely. Can you do ls -la via cli just to make sure there are no hidden files on the datastore?

Thanks

By: Netman

Netman — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:56:48 +0000

Magnus,

Thanks a million for the reply. You’re correct; I have noticed the .vSphereHA folder/files get created on the otherwise empty datastore.

In an attempt to alleviate this, I have removed that datastore from HA heartbeating, deleted the files again, and I haven’t seen the files come back. It’s been months now and they’re still not there, so fortunately I don’t *think* that’s contributing to the issue.

However, it would be quite interesting to disable HA in the cluster, ensure the datastores are still empty, and try another unmount.

Interestingly, (I have this issue with 5 datastores) I have been able to unmount some of my datastores from some of my hosts, and not others. I’m curious what the difference may be, but yes that has happened.

Thanks.

By: magander3

magander3 — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:18:15 +0000

In reply to Netman.

I have seen this when vSphere HA has been enabled since it almost immediately creates new files and a folder on the datastore. Are you able to unmount the datastore from any host or getting the error immediately?

thanks

//Magnus

By: Netman

Netman — Mon, 08 May 2017 20:04:51 +0000

Hello,

Sorry to necro-post, but I haven’t found very much online regarding this problem.

We are a good sized Nutanix/ESXi 6.0 U2 shop, and our problem is that, even after ensuring via Datastore Browser and cli that the datastore is empty, and disabling SIOC, the datastores will not even unmount.

The error we receive is (from vSphere client and web client)
Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Busy

According to google and VMWare Support, this means there are open locks or handles against this datastore. All files on this datastore have been removed, and working with VMWare support they were unable to see any locks or handles on it. Their recommendation was to reboot all of our hosts (a reboot DOES seem to fix this issue), but that’s difficult to do in a prod environment.

Is this by chance anything you’ve seen?

By: Nikolay

Nikolay — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:18:37 +0000

In my case, there was a file named protectedlist.
I was able to delete it only from ESXi cli using root account.

rm /vmfs/volumes/container_to_remove/.vSphere-HA/FDM-*/protedtedlist

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