Quite recently I’ve encountered an issue/question at a customer which complained that two virtual machines had ghost NIC’s attached. Well it doesn’t always have to be hard in our line of work ?, after a quick look it was clear that there were snapshots in place for those VM’s with deleted old NIC’s attached.
Removal of the snapshot and the NIC’s were no more.
See the following reference screenshot of the ghost NIC and the distributed port group NIC:
Hope this helps.