Find datastore for orphaned virtual machines

Hi
One person in our organization unregistered virtual machine but didnt delete it from disk. Now we dont know where vmdk files are residing and they are definitely taking up space
Is there any one liner on powercli where we can search for vmdk meaning datastore where these virtual machine files are stored. Or probably they could be orphaned since these files do exist but vm is no longer register with vCenter

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