properly unmounting or removing datastore using the nimble plugin

[vmw9]

Is there a procedure to properly unmount and remove a datastore from vsphere using the nimble plugin?

Is this a manual process and I need to manually remove all static target name entries on each host?

prefer not to do this

[gcostea16]

Your only option is to delete the datastore.  That will do a clean removal.  From your question it sounds like you would like to only remove the datastore but keep the volume on the array.  Is that correct?

[vmw9]

not really. I do have the procedure to properly unmount and delete he ds from vsphere via this thread

Unable to Unmount Nimble Volume in VMware

but I wanted to know if the nimble plugin provides a better way to remove the target name to the ds. Do I need to go to each individual host to remove the target name mapping from the iscsi adapter?

[gcostea16]

The nimble vcplugin does have the delete option which will remove the target name mapping from each host's iSCSI adapter.

[vmw9]

I do not see the option to delete. The nimble plugin is only showing via datastores

[virat88 · Accepted solution]

You can select a datastore from the list and click the 'trash can' icon at the top. See screenshot below