Detach VMware Inactive Datastore on ESXi 5.5

While covering for a colleague at one of our clients, I noticed that one of the datastores was showing as inactive on one of the hosts (ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 10, 3568722)

datastore_inactive

After rescanning the hosts, and then trying to unmount the datastore it had become clear that it was an issue with a single host as all the other hosts had successfully unmounted the LUN.

When I tried to remove it from the troublesome host, I got the error message:

datastore_error
Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to query live VMFS state of volume.: No such file or directory

After trying to unmount it via by PowerCLI

Datastore_PowerCLI

Remove-Datastore -Datastore Datastore -VMHost 10.23.112.234 -Confirm:$false

I also tried via ESXCLI to stop start storage IO

# services.sh restart

and

# /etc/init.d/storageRM stop | start

..all was unsuccessful.

In the end, a host reboot resolved the issue. Sometimes, the simplest answer is the quickest answer.

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