Unable to delete failed environments in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• In vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI you have an environment with status failed.
• Attempting to delete it fails with error message:

Cannot delete environment. Please try again.

Environment

VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x

Resolution

You can delete a failed environment using Swagger API.

1. Login to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager as admin@local user.
2. Select failed environment and click on Failed.
   • This will redirect you to Home > Requests >  UUID of the failed request
   • Copy the UUID for later use
3. In the top right corner, click on admin@local and select API.
4. In the top right corner of the newly shown swagger page click the dropdown labeled Select a definition and chose 2.private-internal-api 
5. Scroll down to request-controller API.
6. Select DELETE /lcm/request/api/requests/{requestId}.
7. Click Try it out.
8. Input the requestId and click Execute.

Note: requestId is the UUID you copied in step 2.