Orphaned Files

May been a few years old but the below post from legendary PowerCLI vExpect Luc Dekens is very much still worth checking out…. Awesome script for finding orphaned files on your datastores! During a recent audit i managed to located almost 1TB of forgotten vmdks and iso files on numerous datastores.

Anyway, Check it out:
http://www.lucd.info/2016/09/13/orphaned-files-revisited/

I tend to run it using the following to display within the Powershell Window
Get-Datacenter *DC*| Get-Cluster *Cluster* | Get-Datastore | Get-VmwOrphan | FT
Or to Expect to CSV
Get-Datacenter *DC*| Get-Cluster *Cluster* | Get-Datastore | Get-VmwOrphan | Export-CSV -Filename "Filepath\filename.csv"

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