My Guest VM (Prod01) says that it has resources in Datastore01 and Datastore04.
When I look at the Hard Drives assigned to the VM (under Edit Settings) I see that all three Hard Drives are on Datastore04/Prod01/.
When I browse the Datastore01 I do not find anything related to the VM Prod01. Why, then does this datastore show up under the resources for this VM? When I browse the Datastore04 I find under /Prod01/ all the expected files associated with the VM and its defined Hard Drives. Th vmware-##.log files are numbered 52-57.
Then the really unexpected....when I browse Datastore05 I discover under /Prod01/ a partial set of files for this VM but they are dated January 20 of last year. There is no vswp or prod01_3.vmdk. The vmware-##.log files are numbered 19-23.
Can someone explain how/why this VM has a presence on Datastore05? Is it appropriate to delete these files and, if so, is there a proper process for removing them?