How to save a virtual machine before you remove the disc

Very new to VMWare, with Essentials 5.5 the VSphere Client.  I have a virtual machine, I would like to remove from the disk, but want to copy, in the cases where I need to turn the crank upward once again, the host before the withdraw. Is it fairly easy to achieve?  However, I have to remove the inventory, by copying the file to the vm from the data store, add it to the inventory then disconnected the floppy again.  Would support this work if I already needed to put the virtual machine?

Thanks for any idea!

You can download the files of the virtual directory of the data store computer and that you need to remove the inventory, just stop the virtual machine to release the locks on files.

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