How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

[Ravinred]

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

[pdirmann01]

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'.

[Ravinred]

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

Like you showed below Image.