Too long a gap there from my last post so let me try to catch up. It struck me that I was looking at the datastore problem the wrong way (the problem being I could not delete a datastore), and even an ESXi reset did not help. The state must be on the disk itself which are scanned at start-up (I have yet to prove this theory). So instead of re-installing ESXi, which probably would not help, I re-partitioned the hard drive. At first ESXi is a bit confused, it pauses for a long time at boot but does succeed and doesn’t seem to suffer any ill effects. I had no VMs of course. I created another datastore, rebooted and ESXi just seems to forget about the old one.

Since then I have been playing with building some VMs, finding new blogs (Simon Long) and reading Ruben Spruijt’s excellent Application Virtualisation smackdown.

Plenty more projects in the pipeline!