Powered off VMS with snapshots are not showing under reclaim

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• When using Aria Operations reclaim function the powered off VMs that have snapshots do not show as an option to reclaim under Capacity > Reclaim > Snapshots . 
• Reclamation settings it set show for Powered off VMs for 7 days and snapshots are set to 7 days

Environment

Ara Operations 8.12 and later

Cause

This is expected behavior.  If a powered-off VM has snapshots, they will not be shown as reclaimable snapshots

Resolution

The workaround is to disable powered-off VMs from the Reclamation Settings. Since it takes priority, after disabling it, snapshots for powered-off VMs will become reclaimable. The drawback for this workaround is that, powered-off VMs will not be considered reclaimable. 

Additional Information

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.18/Configuring-Operations/GUID-7DBBF4C4-D4A0-4212-80DE-31E8EA1BB4F0.html