Failed cloned VM - flat hard won't delete data store

I tried to clone a virtual machine in vSphere 5.0 that failed because of a "timeout error" and now I am unable to remove the file VM - flat hard of this clone in the store of data target with an error message of "year error occurred while communicating with the remote host.  I need to get this file VM - flat hard removed from free space upwards on this data store.  Any ideas?

Thank you.

Maybe the file remains locked by the cloning process, have you connected to the ESX console and see if the process still running?

If you can ssh to the server, then you can

lsof | grep<*filename>

This should give the PID which has the file locked

Kill

To kill the PID, so you can delete the file

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