Hi all.
Previously, we had a Horizon View manual pool consisting of VMs
from a vCenter server. In one VM removal operation in View, we
erroneously selected the View pool and confirmed the deletion. The
operation proceeded merrily and when we realized the mistake, we
found from vSphere client that all the desktop VMs (plenty of they
were running) in the View manual pool were both deleted from inventory
and from disk in vCenter server.
This shocks and confuses us. It is commonly believed that it is
impossible to delete a running VM from vCenter: vSphere client does
not give you an option to do so and doing so in MOB ends up failure.
But the View catastrophe above might suggest the otherwise.
I have two questions:
1. Is it possible to delete a running VM from vCenter?
2. If so, how to prevent it in vCenter?
3. (a bit off the topic) Is it possible to come up with any hacking or so
that makes it impossible to delete desktop vm from disk while being
able to manipulate view pool ? We'd prefer to do that in vCenter instead.
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The mistake we made to delete all Horizon View desktop VMs:
1. Login onto VMware Horizon View Administrator.
2. From Inventory select the pool.
3. In the pool view, select "Inventory" tab.
4. Select and right click one desktop, Select "Delete Pool..."
5. Confirm the deletion.
Software used:
vCenter Server: 5.5.0, 1945274
Horizon View: 5.3.1 build-1634134
Regards,
Sun Renjie
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