Scenario: some dead Fibre-channel LUNs results in a ESXi 5.0 that does not react to anything but localcli.
I need to remove all Fibrechannel datastores from the config and reboot.
Most of the times it works to stop all running VMs via localcli.
Then I edit esx.conf to remove the Fibrechannel LUNs , run backup.sh 1 and then reboot.
This works most of the times - but not always.
Am I missing a step ?