A question I often receive from students when I teach VMware courses are: How do I mount an ISO file using the vSphere Web Client? This is obvious in the good old fat vSphere Client: However looking in the vSphere Web Client you might think: ARGH?!?! Where is it? (reminds me of Duke Nukem). Looking […]
VMware ESXi 5.1 unable to mount datastore: Lock was not free
Today I had a customer running VMware ESXi 5.1 on three hosts connected to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. The issue at hand was out of 10 datastores on the SAN one datastore could suddenly no longer be mounted. It showed up as (inactive)(unmounted): Obviously the logical solution would be to just try and mount the […]