Detach All Unused Devices in ESXi Cluster

Removing storage devices (Datastores + RDMs) can be tricky task for the VI admin. He will have to:

  1. Map the datastores / RDMs in use (maybe with PowerCLI scripts, EMC VSI, or other storage plugins)
  2. Delete / Remove the specific devices from virtual environment side (Delete datastore, Remove RDM from VM)
  3. Detach the devices from ESXi hosts
  4. Let the storage admin know this devices can be removed from storage side

I’m here to help you with automation for the 3rd task. The amount of steps required for detaching 1 device off 10 hosts cluster, is 10 steps (or 10 detach operations). Detaching 20 devices off this cluster will result in 200 steps, which can be very tedious task.

This script is written in PowerCLI, VMware KB shows more ways of detaching disks.

Script initialization (Environment names, Snapin, log location, time function):

$vCenterName = "vcenter.company.corp"  # ChangeME
$ClusterNameToDetach = "SQL-Cluster-A" # ChangeME

if (!(get-pssnapin -name VMware.VimAutomation.Core -erroraction silentlycontinue)) {
    add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core}

Connect-VIServer $vCenterName

cd F:\Scripts\Serv_DetachClusterDevices\
$dslog_file = ".\log\"+$ClusterNameToDetach+"_log.txt" 

Function Givemetime(){
$mydate = Get-Date
return $mydate = $mydate.ToShortDateString() +" "+ $mydate.ToLongTimeString() +" "
}

Adding some of the detach disk functions:

function Detach-Disk{
    param(
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VMHostImpl]$VMHost,
        [string]$CanonicalName
    )
    
    $storSys = Get-View $VMHost.Extensiondata.ConfigManager.StorageSystem
    $lunUuid = (Get-ScsiLun -VmHost $VMHost | 
      where {$_.CanonicalName -eq $CanonicalName}).ExtensionData.Uuid
    
    $storSys.DetachScsiLun($lunUuid)
}

Function Detach-RDMs ($naa){
Foreach ($vmhost in $vmhosts){
Write-Host "Starting with"$vmhost.Name
"$(Givemetime)" + "Starting with " +$vmhost.Name | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
if (($vmhost |  Get-ScsiLun| Where {($_).ExtensionData.OperationalState -eq "ok"} | %{$_.CanonicalName}) -contains ($naa) ){

Write-Host "Detaching device"$naa
"$(Givemetime)" + "Detaching device "+$naa | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
Detach-Disk -VMHost $vmhost -CanonicalName $naa
Write-Host "Done"
"$(Givemetime)" + "Done" | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
}
}}

The power of the script comes here – the ability to map the devices in the cluster, and separate them to few groups:
$ClusterDSDevices – Devices that are used as datastores in the cluster
$ClusterRDMDevices – Devices that are used as RDMs in the cluster
$ClusterVMAXDevices – All Devices that are visible by the cluster, from a specific vendor. In this example, EMC VMAX devices will presented
$AllUseddevices – Both $ClusterDSDevices and $ClusterRDMDevices variables combined

Variables will contain a list of naa devices, and it is your job to determine what should be declared for detach by the end of the script.
In the end of the mapping script I added an example I used – filter for:All VMAX devices (both DS and RDM), that are not in use. It will list the required devices in $DevicesForDetach variable.

function MapDevices (){
$global:DevicesForDetach = $null
$global:vmhosts = Get-Cluster $ClusterNameToDetach | Get-VMHost | Sort Name

$global:ClusterDSDevices = $null
$global:ClusterDSDevices =  Get-VMHost $vmhosts | Get-Datastore | Where-Object {$_.ExtensionData.Info.GetType().Name -eq "VmfsDatastoreInfo"} | %{$_.ExtensionData.info.Vmfs.Extent[0].DiskName}

$global:ClusterRDMDevices = $null
$global:ClusterRDMDevices = Get-VMHost $vmhosts | Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | %{$_.ScsiCanonicalName}

$global:ClusterVMAXDevices = $null
$global:ClusterVMAXDevices = Get-VMHost $vmhosts | Get-ScsiLun | Where {($_).ExtensionData.OperationalState -eq "ok"} | %{$_.CanonicalName} | Where {$_ -like "naa.600009*"} | select -Unique

$global:AllUseddevices = $ClusterDSDevices + $ClusterRDMDevices
$global:AllUseddevices = $AllUseddevices | Where {$_ -like "naa.600009*"} | select -Unique

$global:AllVMAXDevices = $ClusterVMAXDevices

## Change it to your reference:
If ($AllUseddevices){
$global:DevicesForDetach = (Compare-Object -DifferenceObject $AllVMAXDevices -ReferenceObject $AllUseddevices -IncludeEqual | Where {$_.SideIndicator -eq "=>"}) | %{$_.InputObject}
}
Else {$global:DevicesForDetach = $global:AllVMAXDevices}
## End of change
}

It is now time to use the list we created, ans start detaching disks, all tasks will be exported to a log.

Write-Host "Device Mapping started..."
"$(Givemetime)" + "Device Mapping started..." | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
MapDevices
Write-Host "Device Mapping finished"
"$(Givemetime)" + "Device Mapping finished" | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
if (!($DevicesForDetach)) {
Write-Host "No devices to detach"
"$(Givemetime)" + "No devices to detach on cluster" | out-file $dslog_file -append -Force
}
else {
Foreach ($device in $DevicesForDetach){
Detach-RDMs ($device)
}
}

Log file will look like that in the end of the process:

log-detach2

In this example, 19 devices were detached from 9 hosts, resulted in 171 detach commands to the ESXi hosts in the cluster. The script took less than an hour to complete it.

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