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Article ID: 340960
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Environment
VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x
Cause
This issue occurs when a Fault Tolerant virtual machine becomes orphaned due to a host crash or other event and the replicated virtual machine halts and requires additional steps to recover.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, manually unregister the virtual machine from the host.
To manually unregister the virtual machine from the host:
- Disable Fault Tolerance. For more information, see Disabling Fault Tolerance manually on the ESXi host when vCenter Server is not available (2116110).
- After Fault Tolerance is disabled, manually unregister the virtual machine from the host.
Note: If the option to remove from inventory is still grayed out on the virtual machine:
- Go to the etc/vmware/hostd directory and locate the vmInventory.xml file.
- Take a backup of the vmInventory.xml file.
- Edit the file and remove the entry for the virtual machine by removing the section:
<ConfigEntry id=" "> ... </ConfigEntry>
- Restart the services by running this command:
services.sh restart
Note: Now you can remove the orphaned virtual machine from the inventory.
Readd the .vmx file of the primary Fault Tolerant virtual machine to the inventory.