No Datastores Accessible – VDC 5.1

Scenario: I  provisioned a new datastore (VCLOUD2) then added it to the Datastore Cluster vCloudDatastoreCluster). Shortly afterwards  Igot the error "No datastores accesible to VDC" and my original datasore (vCloud1) had disappeared. OS: Esxi 5.1 / vCloud Director 5.1   My original setup I then added VCLOUD2 to the DS Cluster. (drag datastore into the Read More…

Error unmounting VMFS : The vSphere HA agent on host ‘‘ failed to quiesce file activity on datastore

Scenario:  When unmounting a datastore I got the following error on an ESXi 5.1 hosts:  The vSphere HA agent on host ‘<host>’ failed to quiesce file activity on datastore ‘/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx’. To proceed with the operation to unmount or remove a datastore, ensure that the datastore is accessible, the host is reachable and its vSphere HA Read More…