Best way to delete a VM

[ashleymilne]

What is the best way to remove a VM so it is deleted and not taking up disk space?

I am low on disk space in some of my VM's and do not have a lot of free space in the datastore, so I am decommissioning a VM and then wish to delete it so it frees up disk space in the data store I can then assign to existing VM's in need of it.

I am running Vsphere 4.0 and using the Vsphere server to manage the VM's.

[Scisco]

Hi Ashleymilne,

Take a look here

VMWare Training 3-11 Delete Virtual Machine - YouTube

[ashleymilne]

Vcenter is installed and managing the host and VM's.

[ashleymilne]

Thanks very much, that was helpful and answered my question.

[Scisco]

I am glad I could be of assistance, would you please consider marking your question as answered; thank you

[King_Robert]

• To remove a virtual machine or team name from the Favorites list, right-click the name and choose Remove from Favorites. This choice does not affect the virtual machine itself; all virtual machine and team files remain intact on the host computer file system.

• To delete a virtual machine from the host computer, right-click the name of the virtual machine in the Favorites list and select Delete from Disk; or, select the virtual machine and choose VM > Delete from disk.