Cannot remove vmdk file in vcenter

[Lamb88]

I have an unused folder that contains a vmdk file. I tried to deleted it, but failed.

Anyone know why? and how to remove it?

[mukeshjaiswal]

Try this.

VMware Knowledge Base

Thanks

Mukesh

[rajen450m]

Hi,

SSH to ESXi connected to datastore and navigate to the datastore which it resides and run command

rm -r <foldername>

If it is not deleted with the above try adding f

rm -rf <foldername>

Regards,

[hussainbte]

You know for sure it is unused?

can you please run below command from the vmdk directory and share output

vmkfstools -D xxxxxx.vmdk

vmkfstools -D xxxxxx-flat.vmdk