KB ID 0001479

Problem

After I had a datastore failure I needed to ‘unmount’ a datastore in my VMware 6.5 environment. But when I attempted to do so I got;

The “Remote Datastore” operation failed for the entity with the following error message.

The resource “Datastore-Name” is in use.

Solution

In use by what? Thanks for the assistance! Usually this happens because you have a VM with a VMDK in their datastore, or more likely, a VM has a CD mapped to an ISO that was in this datastore (which was my problem).

In “Datatstore View” > Select the offending Datastore > VMs > Eliminate them one by one.

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