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When you SSH to ESX, do you have to specify a path to the datastore where physical vmdks are located in order to list /Delete VMDK files, or edit vmx files...<br />
or there is a local path on the ESX.?
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When you SSH to ESX, do you have to specify a path to the datastore where physical vmdks are located in order to list /Delete VMDK files, or edit vmx files...
or there is a local path on the ESX.?

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If I understand VMDK files are physically located at the Datastore.<br />
What I do not understand, I have read &nbsp;that you can SSH to ESX host and list the VMDK files there, and you can &nbsp;Delete snapshots from there.<br />
So are VMDKs at the Datastore or ESX host? if at the Datastore probably we 'll need to SSH to the Datastore.<br />
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if you delete snapshot from the command line , will the snapshot commit to base disk ?<br />
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Any clarifications?<br />
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THanks
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If I understand VMDK files are physically located at the Datastore.
What I do not understand, I have read  that you can SSH to ESX host and list the VMDK files there, and you can  Delete snapshots from there.
So are VMDKs at the Datastore or ESX host? if at the Datastore probably we 'll need to SSH to the Datastore.

if you delete snapshot from the command line , will the snapshot commit to base disk ?

Any clarifications?

THanks

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