Can I remove this data store?

Hello guys,.

I free up space in a storage, and for that to work correctly, I followed the following steps:

1. I created a new data store in other containers for storage.

2 - I did a migration of storage of the old data store to the new.

3 - remove the old VMDATA.

At this point, I glued, because the old data store is not empty... West a strange folder inside, but I don't know if I can remove it, as you can see in the image below.

VMDATA.GIF

The question is: can I remove this data store? The showing on the photo, UID is the same UID of the LUN I want deleted.

I use VMWARE ESXi 5.1 Enterprise Edition Plus.

Kind regards

Roberto

files and folder in dotted lines are normally for the metadata of the data store itself.

so, you can delete the data without any problem store.

BTW. If you delete a data store and it is still used by a virtual machine the delet-job will be cancelled. There is a small security bit set

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