Aria Automation 8.16.1 and above has a limit of 100 Cloud Zones for a single endpoint

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Aria Automation 8.16.1 was released with a hard limit of 100 Cloud Zones instead of 1000.  Originally, the value was set to 3000, which was found to potentially cause performance issues. 

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.16.x

Cause

Performance protection against computational challenges of having so many Cloud Zones.

Resolution

There is no resolution yet, as the current behavior is expected and is the intended behavior. The environment property is being discussed for a larger number in future releases.

However, if the prior behavior of all images being available is desired, see the workaround below to make the necessary changes.

Workaround:

1. Take simultaneous snapshots of the vRA appliance(s) before making any changes.
2. SSH into a vRA appliance
3. Edit the provisioning-service-app pod on the deployment with the following command

kubectl -n prelude edit deploy provisioning-service-app

Note: This step will open the vi editor. Scroll to the following section, or type "/JAVA_OPTS" (without quotation marks) and hit enter to scroll directly to it.

      - name: JAVA_OPTS
          value: 
            -Dxenon.PlacementUtils.maxPlacementZone=1000

Additional Information

Updates to a future release may revert settings. Please verify after upgrades to Aria Automation.