VMs are not showing in discovered state

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• a VM was deployed from Aria Automation and then removed from vCenter
• once a vCenter data collection completed within Aria Automation the VM is showing in status "Missing"
• the same VM was then re-added to vCenter, however did now receive a new mo-ref id
• after another vCenter data collection completed within Aria Automation the VM is not showing as "Discovered"

Environment

Aria Automation 8.16.2 and above

Resolution

With version Aria Automation 8.16.2 changes were implemented to which help to identify the VM and try to match to them to the correct deployment.

In such case you may not see the VM as discovered, but the VM references for the existing deployment have been corrected and any Day-2 Actions should work as expected.

However there may be corner cases which would still show the same VM as "Discovered".