Problem

After Erasing a virtual machine with Blancco Virtual Machine eraser (On Demand) Erased Virtual machine name is exist on the vCenter on ESXi Host and erased virtual machine as orphaned status.

Cause

Blancco Virtual Machine Eraser (On Demand) communicate only with ESXi server and the virtual machine is removed only from ESXi host.

Solution

Blancco Virtual Machine Eraser (On Demand) version doesn't communicate with vCenter server from the ESXi host. Due to this reason the erased virtual machine with orphaned status in vCenter has to be removed manually.

Blancco has also Blancco Virtual Machine eraser vCenter integration available.


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