VMs in Inventory display duplicate related vCenters - Aria Operations

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Looking at a VM object in the Inventory under the traversal spec "Integrations" (See image), it may show 2 or more related vCenters.

 

Environment

Aria Operation 8.18.X

Cause

Multiple vCenters in the "Integrations" traversal spec simply means that this object has a relationship to both vCenters.

A common cause for this is that the VM was vMotioned between these vCenters.

The relationship tree can be complex with cross-VC relationships created by network-related adapters. For example:  If an NSX switch has a relationship between vCenter "A" and "B".

NOTE: Multiple vCenters in the "Integrations" traversal spec for the object does not mean the the object is being monitored by duplicate vCenter adapters.

 

Resolution

This is expected behavior.

Look at a VM object in the Inventory under the traversal spec "vSphere Hosts and Cluster" instead (See image below)

This traversal spec will only display the vCenter which is currently monitoring the object.