I do not want to delete from disk, please read the posts carefully. This will automatically remove the disk it references since we use Virtual disk-sharing. I would like to be able to issue this via the commandline of the ESX Host or through other remote utilis like powershell. My preference is the service console using traditional VMware commands or vimsh, if that is impossible, we can install the powershell toolkit on our Virtual Center server and issue the command. Thanks

I'll try to look at the vmInventory.xml and restart the services, I've already tried the vimsh command unregister is the same as vmware-cmd -s unregister which will remove from ESX Inventory, but that automatically orphans VM on the client. I've tried to restar the client and restart the managment services, no go. Hopefully the vmInventory.xml is I can tweak on the fly. I'll let you know

So I remove the reference in /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml and restarted the management services and that seems to do the trick, though the problem with testing this directly connected to the ESX Server is when you bounce the mgmt-vmware service, you need to re-login to the ESX Host, but it does work. Once this has been verified in VC, we just might see quick disconnect from the ESX Host which is more tolerable than having to re-connect to the VI Client. If that is the case, then I guess this is the quickfix, I would still like to explore the rest of the "vmware-vim-cmd" since theres been more additional commands and maybe theres a cleaner way of doing it via the commandline, if not, we can also look at powershell, though at this point, we're not utilizing powershell and would like to limit the amount of tools that gets installed on our admin servers or on VC Server. Thanks for your help, I think your solution was the one I was looking for.