{"id":3822,"date":"2018-05-29T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2018-05-29T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:28:07","slug":"vmware-esxi-6-5-how-to-remove-invalid-virtual-machine-in-web-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/vmware-esxi-6-5-how-to-remove-invalid-virtual-machine-in-web-client\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware ESXi 6.5 &#8211; How to remove invalid virtual machine in web client"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"r\">VMware ESXi 6.5 &#8211; How to remove invalid virtual machine in web client<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3823\" src=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-494x308.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-494x308.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-288x180.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-480x300.png 480w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1-640x400.png 640w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unregister_1.png 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i had invalid\/orphaned virtual machine, so i decided to remove it from inventory in ESXi web client, but unregister was grayed.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is use cli&#8230; so connect to your esxi host and use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>vim-cmd \/vmsvc\/getallvms<\/code>\u00a0to list all registered VMs<\/li>\n<li><code>vim-cmd \/vmsvc\/unregister &lt;id&gt;<\/code>\u00a0to unregister that VM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>get the ID of the VM you removed the files for (the first column of output). 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