Day 2 Actions Not Working in Aria Automation After Azure VM Moved to New Availability Set

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• User deploys a VM from Aria Automation to Azure and changes Update Settings to reflect "Enabled / Customer Managed Schedules"
• User changes Availability Set of Aria Automation deployed VMs in Azure and changes Update Settings to "Disabled / Image Default".
• User then changes Update Settings on Portal to "Enabled / Customer Managed Schedule"

Environment

• Aria Automation 8.x
• Microsoft Azure (using Availability Set)

Cause

• This is not possible in Aria Automation 8.x by design.

• Swapping the Availability Set of a Virtual Machine directly in Azure can cause a synchronization issue between Azure and Aria Automation 8.x, leading to a state that cannot be cleanly recovered within Aria Automation.

• This occurs because the Azure cloud state and the Aria Automation database become inconsistent.

Resolution

• Currently, there is no supported or documented method to resynchronize these states without modifying the underlying code, which is not recommended.