After the removal of all associated objects a storage policy will error out when removal is attempted

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 6.0
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

• Deleting a VM Storage Policy errors with "Delete VM Storage Policy Failed: The resource '####-####-####-####-############' is in use'"

1. 1. No VMs are associated to the storage policy
   2. No PVCs are associated to the storage policy
   3. No WCP supervisors or namespaces are associated to the storage policy

• /var/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps.log contains the following log entries: 
  
  

  ERROR opId=########-#######-####-#####-##:######## com.vmware.pbm.profile.impl.ProfileManagerImpl - Profile ####-####-####-####-############ is still associated with # entities.
  ERROR opId=########-#######-####-#####-##:######## com.vmware.pbm.profile.impl.ProfileManagerImpl - Profile ####-####-####-####-############ is still associated with entity ####-####-####-####-############

 

Environment

VMware vCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x

Cause

There is likely a stale FCD association(s) with the VM Storage Policy. One cause of stale FCD associations could be from following Migrating VMs/Volumes across Datastores in vSphere with Tanzu / vSphere Kubernetes Supervisor

 

Resolution

Please contact a Broadcom support for assistance with this issue