vSphere Hypervisor

Hello, 

I'm running a vSphere 7 Cluster with vSAN on VXRail and I recently did this operatation:
- Took a VM Snapshot
- Delete a virtual disk from the VM (flagging delete from disk)
- Powered on the VM and used it for a couple of days
- Deleted the snapshot

What happened is that when I deleted the disk it wasn't really deleted because of the snapshot, but when I removed the snapshot the disk was only unreferenced from the VM statistics but it seems to be abandoned on the filesystem.
There is a way to fix the contents of the VM folder and remove unused vmdk?
Or I need to do it manually?

Thanks
Giuseppe

After such actions I will have only one question: is your VM still alive, prod, and not damaged? 

you delete that vmdk. file from VM or completely from Datastore?

The VM is ok, but the unused vmdk is still there...

What I'm asking is if it's safe to delete or if there is a way to fix the contents of the folder on the datastore and purge the unreferenced vmdk.
Giuseppe

I have already lost the topic:

make a screenshot from the VM folder. VM name you can hide or blur. 

In case vmdk file which you want to delete is not used by VM - it can be deleted.