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What version of vSphere are you using?<br />
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There is no downtime from vSphere 4.1 when removing the vmdk and the datastore.
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What version of vSphere are you using?

There is no downtime from vSphere 4.1 when removing the vmdk and the datastore.

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Thanks Andrew and how can we remove this from the OS? Currently there is a drive letter attached to this disk in the OS
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Thanks Andrew and how can we remove this from the OS? Currently there is a drive letter attached to this disk in the OS

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Hi, we have a Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter VM which has a 1TB .vmdk assigned to it which we would like to delete and also remove from datastore? What is the best way to do this without rebooting the VM? <br />
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TIA
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Hi, we have a Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter VM which has a 1TB .vmdk assigned to it which we would like to delete and also remove from datastore? What is the best way to do this without rebooting the VM? 

TIA

Removing disk and vmdk from server

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.

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.