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Well, typically, the virtual disk you created is associated with the VM. So, though you removed it from the VM, it is still going to be in the VM's folder. If you recall the size of the virtual disk (.vmdk) you removed, just look inside the VM folder on the datastore the VM is on and delete the .vmdk. Typically, if a .vmdk is in use by a VM, you're not able to delete it (you'll get an error).<br />
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Hope that helps.<br />
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Regards,<br />
~coolsport00
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Well, typically, the virtual disk you created is associated with the VM. So, though you removed it from the VM, it is still going to be in the VM's folder. If you recall the size of the virtual disk (.vmdk) you removed, just look inside the VM folder on the datastore the VM is on and delete the .vmdk. Typically, if a .vmdk is in use by a VM, you're not able to delete it (you'll get an error).

Hope that helps.

Regards,
~coolsport00

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check inside the VMX file which VMDKs for certain you are using.
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check inside the VMX file which VMDKs for certain you are using.

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Over the christmas holidays I reconfigured a VM and removed to virtual hard disks from it. At the time I didnt completely delete them from the SAN in case I needed them. I now definaqtely don t need them and want to delete the files from the array to reclaim the disk space. Problem I have is I think I know which files it is but I dont want to delete them unitl I've verified that they are not being used by the VM. <br />
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How do I go about this?
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Over the christmas holidays I reconfigured a VM and removed to virtual hard disks from it. At the time I didnt completely delete them from the SAN in case I needed them. I now definaqtely don t need them and want to delete the files from the array to reclaim the disk space. Problem I have is I think I know which files it is but I dont want to delete them unitl I've verified that they are not being used by the VM. 

How do I go about this?

How do i verify which VDMK files are not in use for deletion on VMware esxi 4.1?

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.