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Since the Snapshot manager doesn't show them, they're not active. You should be able to delete them from Datastore Browser by right-clicking on the file in question and selecting &quot;Delete from Disk&quot;.
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Since the Snapshot manager doesn't show them, they're not active. You should be able to delete them from Datastore Browser by right-clicking on the file in question and selecting "Delete from Disk".

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Hi,<br />
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My colleague has canceled a snapshot process and for some reason the VMDK file created du snapshot process are still there in each LUN (because servers has 3 disks).<br />
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Because it consumes space we need do delete it but how? In snapshot manager there is nothing but when we browse the datastore we can see it.
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Hi,

My colleague has canceled a snapshot process and for some reason the VMDK file created du snapshot process are still there in each LUN (because servers has 3 disks).

Because it consumes space we need do delete it but how? In snapshot manager there is nothing but when we browse the datastore we can see it.

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