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Force Removal of Folders on VSAN

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When folder deletion fails in the UI, you can fall back to the CLI and force deletion.

SSH into your ESXi instance and use the osfs-rmdir utility.

This type of error can also occur due to connectivity issues as per this thread: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/489842.

List directory

[root@humle:/vmfs/volumes/vsan:5218ef34de66cc64-1d0ef14adba2e0e5] ls -la
ls: ./648f3f59-5df4-e11f-00d0-a02bb83182fc: No such device or address
ls: ./fd8f3f59-ade1-802d-c5a3-a02bb83182fc: No such device or address

Force delete (cli)

/usr/lib/vmware/osfs/bin/osfs-rmdir 648f3f59-5df4-e11f-00d0-a02bb83182fc -f
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