Deleting Specific Folders from Specific Datastore

[rpmfx]

Hey all,

I have a script that I'm working on that occasionally leaves behind some orphaned VMDKs from a previous clone operation in a previous run of the script. I was wondering what would be the best way to target and remove a specific folder from a specific datastore so that I can incorporate it into my script. If I don't remove the orphaned folder before a future script run, the script will try to use the old VMDKs instead of the ones from the new clone operation. Any help would be amazing! I tried searching a bit and didn't quite come across something that suited my needs or that I could piece together myself from a snippet in an existing script on here.

Thanks!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

If you have the path to the orphaned VMDK, you could use the Datastore Provider.

Once mapped, you can use (most of) the regular filesystem cmdlets (like Remove-Item).

See for example Re: Finding the last modified date for Orphaned vmdk file

where I used the New-PSDrive to map a datastore, and then was able to use Get-ChildItem to search the filesystem.

[rpmfx]

This looks like a great solution to what I am looking for so I will give it a shot. Thank you!