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Search for VMDK in all datastores
I have deleted a VM for VSphere client , I was not sure if I deleted it from disk.
I would like to search for it in all datastores. is there an easy way to find it so that I can delete the related files.

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Do I need to login to each ESX server via SSH and run the command you posted ?
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Is this command Powercli ?

ls vmstores:\myServer@443\Datacenter\datastore1\Win7*

it looks like Linux

I have installed powercli. I am not sure which is better powercli or vcli..I believe vcli uses Linux commands while powercli uses Microsoft commands
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I guess powercli will use : Get-VM  command
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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.