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  • 1.  How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

    Posted May 11, 2021 06:24 PM

    Hello Everyone,

    I work in an environment that has over 4500 VMs and I'm trying to clean it up. One of the things I wanted to clean up is zombie VMDK files which according to RVTools, I have plenty. I don't want to do it manually but I think a script is pretty "dangerous".

    What is the proper way of deleting those files?

     

    Thank you,

    Ravi



  • 2.  RE: How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

    Posted May 14, 2021 02:29 AM

    Even in vROPs orphaned VMDKs cannot be deleted in a automatic or semi-automatic fashion. They give you the path and you need to clean up "manually". See below for the warning and that there isn't an option to 'Delete'.

     

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  • 3.  RE: How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

    Posted Jun 01, 2021 08:00 PM

    Do you have any Dashboards in vRops for Zombie VM's.

    Like you showed below Image.