Reclaiming disk space after deleting virtual hard drive

Hello forum, I have to temporarily create a 200GB virtual disk and attach to a virtual server. The purpose of the disk is for moving some files across different servers. Once the files have been moved, I would like to delete the disk and release the space back to the datastore. Can this be done? I have a datastore with enough disk space from which the temporary disk will be created. But I would like to release the space back to that datastore once purpose is solved. Any inputs?
Thanks in advance.

Like already stated above, make sure select the option Remove from virtual machine and delete files from disk when removing the disk from virtual machine. Take in mind that VM must not be running from a snapshot, otherwise only the delta file will be deleted: VMware KB: Removing a harddisk from a virtual machine through the vSphere client does not release the desired space.…

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