On a datastore accessed via NFS from 4 ESXi 5.5 hosts members of a vSphere 5.5 infrastructure I see lots of "orphan" files and folders.
Each folder name is related to a VM that either:
- Does not exist anymore
- Was moved to a different datastore
Can I simply delete the folders (maybe after connecting to an ESXi host via WinSCP) or should I perform any additional check?
What damage can I cause besides maybe damaging a given VM if the files are not really orphan?
Is there any risk to damage the datastore itself?
Regards
Marius