How to confirm VMDK not mapped to a virtual machine

Dear team,

I ran the rvtools I find some files vmdk into a zombie. B4 that remove this file how to confirm that these files are not mapped to virtual machines.

will she be ok, I have a windows VM test and to map these test file and poweron vmdk VM, if VM is receiving, then that means that these vmdk are not mapped to a VM. This process will confirm this vmdk are not mapped to a virtual machine or if you have any other process to confirm the same please send us your opinion / experience...

Need your urgent help on the same.

Note: has none of the virtual machine snapshot

concerning

Mr. VMware

How to detect the zombie/orphaned files, you can use find command to the shell or some scripts PowerCLI sophisticated to detect files that were not changed for a long time there is another approach.

Find command below just check for the specified files timestamp mtime...

Examples of command "find":

find - iname ' * '-mtime + 14 (any file not changed in the last 14 days)

find - iname ' *-flat.vmdk "-mtime + 30

...

..

.

The list of the files you download should be reviewed carefully because it could contain valid files... so its on your judgment to make final the decision what can and what cannot be deleted.

This is PowerCli script that detects only orphaned VMDK but it can be modified to search for other types of files:

Files - spring cleaning - LucD notes and orphaned files

Regarding the other see types of files:

Re: Files/folders orphans

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