- Yesterday our only LM Datastore was reaching capacity (99.5%).
- I deleted some expired configurations, and asked our LM users to clean up any VMs they no longer require.
- I added a new datastore, and enabled it.
- I disabled VM creation on the first datastore.
- Oddly, disabling VM creation prevents reverting to a revert point.. god knows why. This doesn't make sense.
- I tried to re-enable VM creation on the datastore, i get the following error message
19/04/2012 09:44:11
vCenter Lab Manager creates a root directory on the datastore to manage virtual machine data. This datastore has missing or invalid directories and cannot be enabled. If someone added directories under the vCenter Lab Manager root directory, manually remove them. If someone removed vCenter Lab Manager directories by mistake, restore those directories manually and then retry enabling the datastore. If you are unable to restore the directories on the datastore, contact VMware support.
- there is another error message that lists some directory numbers.
- I have checked these out by browsing the datastore in vSphere, there are VMs in the listed folders - and thusly i do not want to delete the folders.
How does this happen?
How do i fix it? deleting VMs / Configurations doesn't seem like a suitable fix!