Disk Space not being cleared after file deletion

[rmonforti]

I went to remove a virtual disk from a VM but the system came up with an error. So I went into the datastore and deleted it manually but the disk space is not being cleared. It still looks like the virtual disk is there even though I deleted it. It's like ESX is not clearing the space or something.

Has anyone run into this and how do you get it to clear the disk space?

Thanks,

Rich

[LarsLiljeroth]

It sound like you only deleted the config file .vmx or the descriptor file servername.vmdk and not the actual data file servername-flat.vmdk.

What excactly did you delete? is there still a folder for the server...?

[pareshmd]

Try using WinSCP software...From where are you checking the free space?

Regards,

Paresh

[rmonforti]

I deleted the flat file and the config file. I sorted my size and pick the right one (or aleast I thing I did)

[rmonforti]

I'm looking at space from the Infrastructe Client.

[rmonforti]

I ended up just deleting the whole VM and starting over. That freed the space up but it still stinks that I didn't find the real answer. Just don't have time to mess with it today.

Thanks for the ideas!

Rich

[TCronin]

What version of the client and VC server? Upgrading to 2.0.2 seems to have cleared this problem up for me.