NSX Load balancer gets recreated in Aria Automation when iterative deployment is performed on the deployment without any changes to load balancer

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

When using Update on a deployment, it may be noticed that the LB is recreated even though no apparent amendment has been made to this LB.

Environment

Aria Automation versions up to and including 8.18.0

Cause

LoadBalancerDescription objects are created with an expiration time of 9 days and are getting cleaned up

Since this detail will be detected as changed, the LB is recreated

Resolution

This is fixed in Aria Automation 8.18.1

For a workaround in earlier versions, please contact VMware support, quoting this article.
It is possible to remove the description expiry by a database update.