Virtual machines use a data store file?

I think I have a couple of orphaned files hard in one of my data stores, but I hesitate to delete it without confirming that it has been adandonded. I know that I can use the menu change the settings to manually search on each virtual machine if the file in question is in use, but is there an easier way to determine this on the opposite side?

I would like to be able to tell what VM a special hard (or any file in the data also store) is linked to.

Thank you

You can use something like RVTools to check your inventory

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