Virtual machine in the store of stock data... do not know why?

Weird, seemingly simple question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm migrating to warehouses of new data here that I will retire from our old data warehouses. I went in my opinion warehousing data and Clusters data store and selected data store. I went to the tab computers virtual and put highlight the entire virtual machine, chose to migrate and chose to migrate to the data store. When he finished two VM have been left. I looked at the settings and both were still in the inventory of data store, because they had the ISO mounted on their CD player that was on this data store. I put the drive of the client machine under devices and click OK. This removed a VM, but not the last one. I went to every setting that I can find to see why this virtual machine is always on the data store. I want to remove the data store, so I can finally get rid of it. If I browse the data store, the folder for this virtual machine is no longer there. If I'm going to change the settings for the virtual path of the VMDK computer is set to the new data store. For the life of me I can't figure out where the connection is for this virtual computer in this data store. We have our NetApp SAN and I checked that I have remove the task backup and all backups so these objects via the plugin vCenter we have and they are no longer on this data store either. Besides the VMDK and the CD drive, if not, how can a VM be bound to a data store?

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