Deleted: Vmdk

It’s 11:30 PM on a Friday. Alex is doing routine storage cleanup on the company’s VMware ESXi host. They have a legacy virtual machine named “Dev-Web-01” that was decommissioned months ago. He’s been asked to free up space on the datastore.

The VM is still “running” in vCenter, but without its disk descriptor file, it can’t read any data. The operating system is frozen in a state of panic. deleted vmdk

Alex doesn’t panic (much). He remembers a rule his mentor taught him: It’s 11:30 PM on a Friday