Had a crash during an svmotion, vm orphaned and tried to readd to inventory but no luck. I have since restored the vm from a san snapshot and deleted all the original files and it now sits in a whole new folder but I cannot remove the 2 infentory items I tried to readd it after the intial failure.
I have rebooted the server, I have restarted mgmt-vmware, vmware-vmkauthd, and vmware-vpxa. -- several times now.
vmware-cmd -l on host does not list any references to the ghosted vm. cannot remove from vclient
vitoolkit (powershell) will list the 2 vms,
get-vm -Name vmname -
produces the name of the vm object.
but I cannot:
get-vm -Name vmname | remove-vm -- doesnt work because I get this error message..."Remove-VM : 5/11/2009 9:05:02 PM Remove-VM A general system error occurred: You must power off the virtual machine and complete the migration before invoking this operation."
nothing I have been trying gets me to remove the orphan.