vSphere World Shows More Virtual Machines than the Sum of the vCenter Virtual Machines

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• The aggregated widget at the top of the Inventory view displays an incorrect total count of VM objects compared to the sum of VM objects listed under individual vCenter
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• During regression validation testing you are seeing a discrepancy of number of VMs in your environment. On the main welcome screen you see one count of Total VMs but on the compute capacity dashboards you see a different count of Total VMs.

• On the Summary page for the vSphere World object, the number of Total VMs does not match the sum of the vCenters.
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Environment

VMware Aria Operations 8.18.x

Cause

• Template VMs are included in the count of Virtual Machines at the vSphere World object level.
• Template VMs are excluded from the count of Virtual Machines at the vCenter object level

Resolution

Verify that the number of Template VMs in the environment matches the difference between the vSphere World > Virtual Machine count and the sum of the vCenter > Virtual Machines count.

To review the count of Template VMs in the vSphere World Object:

1. Navigate to Inventory and click on the vSphere World object
2. Click the Metrics tab
3. Expand Metrics > Summary and double click the Number of VM Templates metric to review its current count

To review more details about the Template VMs

1. Navigate to Operations > Views
2. Expand All > List > Virtual Machine and click Inventory | VM Templates
3. Click the Preview source dropdown in the top right corner and select the vSphere World object

Additional Information

The Broadcom engineering team is aware of the discrepancy and will address it in a future version of Aria Operations.