VMs have their "Deletion scheduled" status set to "Soon" for an long period

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• From UI Resources -> Deployments view, and then your can order by "Expires on" shots vms are expired. but when go inside its showing "Deletion scheduled" status set to "Soon".
• The undeleted resources (VMs, storage, IPs, etc.) continue to consume infrastructure capacity.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.1

Cause

• A lease policy with a grace period (CU has set 14 days). their grace period is 14 days, if the VM is not deleted on 14th and if it got stuck, on 15th day, it has to send an email or generate an alert in vROPs.
• When the lease policy is created, deployments will follow the policy to expire the deployments and wait for destruction till the grace period is met. Customer might change the lease policy to shorten the grace period during the previous grace period. There is a bug in our implementation where the deployment's next_op_date is not reset.
• Known bug in Aria Automation 8.18.1.

Resolution

• Tentatively planned to be fixed in VMware Aria Automation patch 4.