VeeamBackup Datastore inactive

[kurt]

I'm looking at my Datastores in vSphere Client and I see one called: "VeeamBackup_VEEAMBU (2) (inactive)"

It's been there for a long time. Is it supposed to be there or is it left over from a restore and how do I get rid of it?

VEEAMBU is actually the name of my OLD veeam backup virtual machine which has been deleted.


Thanks

[foggy]

This is a vPower NFS datastore created within your old Veeam backup server. You can delete it now, I suppose.

[kurt]

This is a vPower NFS datastore created within your old Veeam backup server. You can delete it now, I suppose.

How? I tried to delete it but it says "The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created"

[Vitaliy S.]

Can you try to remove it from the host directly? I had some other datastores which I couldn't delete while being connected to vCenter Server, but once I've tried to do that via host connection, it worked.

[kurt]

Can you try to remove it from the host directly? I had some other datastores which I couldn't delete while being connected to vCenter Server, but once I've tried to do that via host connection, it worked.

Hi, I tried that but when logged into the host directly, the datastore doesn't appear so maybe it's already gone and I just need to reboot the host or something strange like that.

[Vitaliy S.]

Try these suggestions, might help:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=2008507
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/274899

[gvinpin]

I had the same problem and solution was to restart management agents on ESX hosts, showing inactive Datastores.

[cffit]

This happened to me when I moved our VEEAM backup server. I had to reconfigure our SureBackup/VirtualLab. When I did that it created a new store but left the old one there dimmed out with "inactive" listed after it. I couldn't delete it, but I could unmount it. When I unmounted it, it disappeared. Is there anything else I need to do? I assumed I would need to delete it somewhere?

[foggy]

No need to do anything else in virtual infrastructure. You may want to remove the corresponding folder on the backup repository belonging to your former backup server, if required.

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, VeeamBackup datastore is created automatically on the repository you're exposing VM backups from, unmount operation should be sufficient if you want to clean everything after migration. Thanks!