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Lessons learned · 2017-07-27

Cannot power on VMs after deleting resource pools

One of my colleagues had a problem the other night. He was called to troubleshoot a VMware View environment which was not running as expected.

2017-07-27Date

Dario DörflingerAuthor

1Min read

Topics Modern Workplace 2.11 Virtualization 1.37

Vendors Omnissa 2.39 VMware 0.88

This post is from 2017. It stays online because people still look for it, but it describes the products as they were then.

One of my colleagues had a problem the other night. He was called to troubleshoot a VMware View environment which was not running as expected. One thing he did during the cleaning up was to get rid of a number of resource pools that were only created for the purpose of putting the VMs into “folders” when viewed from the old C# Client.

After fixing other errors he was ready to create new linked clones. But they could not power on. The error message said:

The available memory resources in the parent resource pool are insufficient for this operation

Turns out the hosts had a file in /etc/vmware which referred to the resource pools and was not properly cleaned up. In order to solve this problem the following had to be run on each esxi host: