KB ID 0001398
Problem
I noticed I had a VM that was ‘Orphaned’ in my vCenter web console. It was not a production server or anything, I just wanted to delete it. However the option to Delete or Remove from Inventory was not available.
Solution
It turns out, you just need to ‘dig a little deeper’. All Virtual Infrastructure Action > More Uncategorized Actions > Remove from inventory.
Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links
vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)
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25/04/2018
hours of search, find your hint, worked probably, thanks
29/08/2018
thank you so much, it helped me.
i have searched over so many websites but did not find any fix but here it fixed my issue.
thanks a lot.
15/01/2019
Thank you very much- the article was a great help.
Simple and worked- very good
🙂 Jens
17/01/2019
ThanQ 🙂
15/04/2019
thank you for your help 🙂
24/07/2019
Thanks for the help!works like a charm!
11/02/2020
Thanks it worked
11/01/2021
I have this problem and on some of the VM’s i do what you show. Now I have some that the “Remove from inventory” is grayed out.
Any solution?
Thx!