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How to delete or unmount inactive datastores from Vcenter

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#660 opened on Dec 9, 2020

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Description

I am currently writing a cleanup script wherein, I am trying to clean the inactive datastores from a vcenter, but I can't find any such function for that. Need help on this

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Tech stack
python
Domain
infrastructure
Issue type
research
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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1-3 hours
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stale
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Prerequisites
pyVmomi basicsvCenter datastore concepts
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30
Research direction
This issue asks how to delete or unmount inactive datastores from vCenter using pyVmomi. The user should first consult the pyVmomi documentation for datastore management functions (e.g., Datastore object methods). They can look into the pyVmomi community samples for existing examples of datastore removal. If no function exists, they may need to use the vSphere API directly via pyVmomi's ManagedObject references. The issue has no comments, so the maintainers have not provided guidance.