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Which vmware product you use? If esx/esxi, ensure that you've delete from disk not just remove from Inventory in the VI client
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Which vmware product you use? If esx/esxi, ensure that you've delete from disk not just remove from Inventory in the VI client

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It is ESX35 and they weren't in Inventory and they were deleted from disk. 
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It is ESX35 and they weren't in Inventory and they were deleted from disk.

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Have you &quot;refresh&quot; storage after deleting them? Do you still see the VMs files in datastore browser?
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Have you "refresh" storage after deleting them? Do you still see the VMs files in datastore browser?

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Is there an simple way to regain hard drive space after virtual machines have been deleted from an existing system? Have inherited system and was trying to cleanup by removing old VM's from an existing volume. I have copied them off as appliances first before this deletion but the space has been released back as free as I had exspected when I deleted from disk.
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Is there an simple way to regain hard drive space after virtual machines have been deleted from an existing system? Have inherited system and was trying to cleanup by removing old VM's from an existing volume. I have copied them off as appliances first before this deletion but the space has been released back as free as I had exspected when I deleted from disk.

Easy way to recover hard drive space?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.