Cannot Delete Citrix Base Disk from vSAN Datastore

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Unable to delete Citrix base-disk vmdk objects created by Citrix MCS.

Environment

VMware vSAN 6.x

Cause

The issue is a result of how the object is created by Citrix MCS.
This is caused by the flag "ddb.deletable = false" being present in the vmdk descriptor file.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in Citrix CVAD LTSR 1912.
Release Notes: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new/fixed-issues.html

For any existing objects, please use the workaround to make the objects deletable.

Workaround:
The command below can be used to remove the line from all vmdk descriptor files in a given VM namespace.

• sed -i '/ddb.deletable/d' /vmfs/volumes/vsanDatastore/VM-Namespace/*.vmdk

After performing this change, the file/folder can be deleted via the vSphere Client in the datastore browser.