Virtual machine appears under two LUNs following a storage vMotion operation

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Following a storage vMotion of a virtual machine from one datastore to another, a virtual machine appears under both the source and destination datastore even though all of the files are on the destination datastore.
• The virtual machine appears under the correct datastore when you connect vSphere Client directly to the ESXi host.
• Resetting the VirtualCenter Server service does not resolve this issue.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0

Cause

This issue can occur if the virtual machine has snapshots. vCenter Server maintains a database entry corresponding to the original location of the snapshot. As this entry is not updated during the storage vMotion, vCenter Server displays the virtual machine under both datastores.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, commit the snapshots.

When the snapshots are committed, vCenter Server shows the virtual machine under a single datastore.

Note: Make sure that no ISO files are mounted to the VM in question.