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Brilliant! &nbsp;It was the CDROM ISO pointing to a different Datastore!!!
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Brilliant!  It was the CDROM ISO pointing to a different Datastore!!!

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I have a single VM with only one hard drive. &nbsp;It does not have any snapshots. &nbsp;When I look at the summary, it shows it is attached to two different datastores. &nbsp;If I browse the datastores, one does have a folder for the VM the other does not have any folder for the VM. &nbsp;Why is it showing an association with 2 datastores, when there is only one?
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I have a single VM with only one hard drive.  It does not have any snapshots.  When I look at the summary, it shows it is attached to two different datastores.  If I browse the datastores, one does have a folder for the VM the other does not have any folder for the VM.  Why is it showing an association with 2 datastores, when there is only one?

VM showing it is associated with 2 datastore's,

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.