- Storage experienced hardware issue, and the LUN has been unmapped from storage.
- The datastore was unable to be deleted on the web UI
ESXi 8.x
Remove the datastore from the command line
- esxcli storage vmfs extent list
- esxcli storage filesystem list
- esxcli storage filesystem unmount -u XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- esxcfg-rescan -A
- /etc/init.d/hostd restart