(Stupid question) Potentially orphaned vmdks?

[gokart]

Hi there,

I did a bunch of datastore migrations, VM alignments, disk resizes, etc over the weekend. End result is that I'm left with a Datastore I'd love to remove, but when viewed in the datastore browser, there are still vmdks for several of my guests in there... Now I managed to nuke a VM over the weekend by deleting a datastore while a guest was still linked to a snapshot vmdk over there (the Snapshot Manager did not relay this information), so I'm a bit gun shy. Nothing in the vSphere client suggests these files are in use, but is there any way to double-check these vmdks are no longer linked to their old guests in any way before removing the datastore? Am I correct in thinking the datastore browser will not let you remove these files if linked to a powered on VM? So maybe just delete all the vmdks by hand and then remove the datastore?

Thanks!

[farkasharry · Accepted solution]

Install RVTools (Freeware at www.robware.net) and run the health check. It will tell you if there are any vmdk's are around not used by any VM!

I am regulary doing my cleanup and houshold works with this tool and it works fine.

[gokart]

Thanks for the reply!

RVTools picked these guys up as Zombies, which is good enough for me. Also found a couple other uninflated snapshot leftovers kicking around - helpful tool.