Having problems removing a datastore and noticed the vSphere client does not let me set advanced settings such as:
ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation
to
[] /scratch/log/.locker
Any ideas on the solution? I suspect the issue is with vSphere and having to directly go the esxi portal or shell in.
Update
shelled in:
mkdir -p /tmp/scratch
On vSphere I changed the advanced setting ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation to /tmp/scratch but anytime I try to set ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation to /tmp/scratch or /tmp/scratch/.locker I get an error message. 
I briefly went through VMware Knowledge Base and it mentioned a restart was needed for that setting to be changed so I restarted. But when I went back to the hosts advanced settings those settings were reset back to the original datastore?