How do I recover from a virtual disk deletion failure?

Troubleshooting a Virtual Disk Deletion Failure

Cause of Failure Recovery Procedure
The virtual disk is reserved. Release the virtual disk on the host type.
The target virtual disk of a virtual disk copy is read-only. Disable the read-only status on the target virtual disk.
The disk group is reconfiguring.

Wait until the reconfigure operation is complete. You can monitor the status of the reconfigure operation in the Operations in Progress dialog in the Summary tab.

The physical disks associated with the disk group are reconstructing.

Wait until the reconstruction operation is complete. You can monitor the status of the reconstruction operation in the Operations in Progress dialog in the Summary tab.

The disk group is in an active virtual disk copy operation. Wait until the virtual disk copy is complete before you try to delete the disk group.

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