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Figure 3‐1showsabasicexampleofvirtualmachineandinternalnodesaffectedbya

deleteoperation.

Figure 3-1. Example of Nodes Affected by a Delete Operation

IfyoudeletenodeDinthissampledirectorytree,nodeBstaysintactbecausenodeC

andEaredependentonit.IfyoudeletenodeE,thespacefornodeE

andnodeC

becomesavailablebecausethedeletionaffectsallnodesuptoadirectorywithchild

dependencies(nodeB).

Inthecontextview,viewthechainsofvirtualmachineandinternalnodedirectories

fromrighttolefttomoveupthelineagechaintowardancestordirectories.Boxeswith

thickborders

representthevirtualmachinesthatyoucanseeintheStage ManagerWeb

console.Boxeswithlighterbordersrepresentthe“hidden”internaldirectories

associatedwiththevirtualmachines.Deletionofinternalnodesonlyoccursasaside

effectofdeletingthevirtualmachinesassociatedwiththosenodes.

Blueboxesindicatedeployeddirectories

whileyellowboxesindicatetheselected

virtualmachine.Thegraycoloristhedefaultcolorfordirectories.

Ifyoumovethepointeroverabox,youcanseevariousdetailsincludingtheamountof

spacethevirtualmachineorinternalnodeconsumesandthetotalamountofspace

reclaimedwiththe

removalofallattachedor“hidden”nodes.Forexample,ifyousee

Size:277MB(554MB),thefirstnumber(277)reflectsthespaceoftheselectednodeand

thenumberinparentheses(554)reflectsthetotalspace.Thistotalamountiscalculated

byaddingthespaceofthenodeand

allassociatednodestotherightoftheselected

node.

PreviouslydeployedandcurrentlydeployedvirtualmachinesshowLastDeployed

information.Internalnodesdonotdisplaythisinformation.

Arevertreferenceappearsasaturquoisebox.Thisreferencepointimpliesanother

directory(createdbyafullcloneoperationonadifferent

datastore)existsoutsideofthe

displayeddirectorytreebutusesadirectorylinkedtothisrevertreferenceasarevert

point.Thisdependencyaffectsyourabilitytodeletedirectories.

Todeleteadirectorylinkedtoarevertreference,deletethevirtualmachineassociated

withtherevertreferenceandthedescendantsof

thedirectory.

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