How to remove failed disk and associated VM's?

[Sparkytech]

I recently had one of my drives ("Disk2", sdb) fail, which had 2 VM's on it. Not a big deal, as I was just getting started setting them up. I cant seem to remove these VM's (103 & 105) from Proxmox. I get a "Volume group "Data-Store2" not found. TASK ERROR: can't activate LV 'Data-Store2/vm-105-disk-1' to zero-out its data: Cannot process volume group Data-Store2" error.

I want to remove these and then install a new disk to sdb. When I attempt to install the new disk to sdb, and I run "pvcreate /dev/sdb1", I get a "Can't open /dev/sdb1 exclusively. Mounted Filesystem?" Any ideas how I can remove the old Disk and VM's, and get the new drive working? I am very new to Proxmox, so please keep it as simple as possible.

 

[Q-wulf]

If you do not have any Backups and no desire to use the VM's ever again do the following:

nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vmID.conf>
or
nano /etc/pve/nodes/<NodeName>/qemu-server/<vmID.conf>

and remove the offending vDisk.
then ctrl+X, Y
Now you can remove the VM from your node(s)

 

[Sparkytech]

Thanks Q-wulf, that worked great!