Is it safe to delete VMNAME-rdmp.vmdk ?

[AlbertWT]

Hi All,

When I perform manual scan from the PowerGUI to cleanup my hard drive from orphaned VMDK, I noticed that I found some VM files with "VMNAME-rdmp.vmdk" ?

is it safe to delete that or better left there as it sounds like it is RDM files ?

Thanks

[Mouhamad]

Hello Albert,

If you are presenting RDM LUNs to this specific VM, so of course it's not save to remove the XXXX-rdmp.vmdk file because this is the pointer to the RDM LUN, if removed, you'll loose access to the RDM LUN till you recover it or re-assign the RDM LUN to the VM.

If you used to have an RDM LUN and it's not used anymore by this VM, so it's safe to delete it.

Regards,

Mouhamad

[AlbertWT]

ah, ok, many thanks for the response man.