Hi, looking for some help in removing a .vmdk file as I am stuck.
Attempt 1
Open VI Client --> right click on VM --> Delete from disk.
This has worked for me previously, but I always double check by double clicking on the Datastore icon and use the datastore browser in the VI Client to confirm. Unfortunately, the directory was still present and two files were still in it.
Attempt 2
Connected to the datastore using PuTTY and tried rm -r ITSM-TRAIN with no joy. logged in as root and managed to delete one of the .vmdk files
root@esx02 VmDevShare# rm -r ITSM-TRAIN
rm: descend into directory `ITSM-TRAIN'? y
rm: remove regular file `ITSM-TRAIN/ITSM-TRAIN-000002-delta.vmdk'? y
rm: cannot remove `ITSM-TRAIN/ITSM-TRAIN-000002-delta.vmdk': Invalid argument
rm: remove regular file `ITSM-TRAIN/ITSM-TRAIN-000002.vmdk'? y /code
Attempt 3
I have run ps aux | grep ITSM-TRAIN and no processes are running
I have tried /usr/sbin/lsof | grep ITSM-TRAIN and nothing is returned either
I am not very good with linux (yet!) and I have tried the above after searching on here and on google. Any suggestions as to how I can get rid of this file would be greatly appreciated!
TIA, Jonathan