after hard stop, VM went (invalid) need help getting it running.

Very much a noob here. Inherited a vmware system, can do most basic things like start and stop - all vms were created by former employee (good guy, no issues there)

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We had a vm i attempted a Hard Stop on, then after a bit it came back with

'(invalid)' after the name

and is now unstartable. online resources mention deleting and recreating, etc. do NOT want to do that!

This is a critical server, and I don't want to muck anything up.

[https://geek-university.com/remove-a-virtual-machine/](https://geek-university.com/remove-a-virtual-machine/) seems to have the most concise .

I can select Remove from Inventory via the vSphere Web Client.

I am fairly certain I am in the correct spot on the vShere Client portion where the files are stored for the VM ion the datastores filnames like vm.nvram, vm.vmsd, vm.vmx , etc

(represents the name of the virtual machine in question)

From that, the vm.vmx is what I need to concentrate on, yes ?

or will the (invalid) status clear itself up after time?

cannot reboot the hosts!