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Orphan VM left in VMware 5.5
I find there are several orphan VMs left on the server. If I select "Remove form Inventory", will it physically remove those orphans files ?
How to completely remove those files on the server ?
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How to completely remove those files on the server ?
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Those VMs are created long time ago and we haven't used it anymore.
Why does it appear like that ?
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Why does it appear like that ?
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This issue happen when you have outage where esxi lost connectivity with the vcenter server. On the top if you have registered the VM on different host. Since the vCenter do not find the VM on the Host it will show it as orphan.
In the above case usually the VM is registered on another host. So as andrew said there is no harm in removing the vm from inventory it will not delete you data.
I hop that helps.
In the above case usually the VM is registered on another host. So as andrew said there is no harm in removing the vm from inventory it will not delete you data.
I hop that helps.
It will not remove them from disk
Are you missing any VMs from your inventory?