Best practices for decommissioning the Aria Suite Lifecycle (ASL) appliance

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Users may need to decommission a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (ASL) appliance due to environment consolidation, hardware refresh, or a complete redeployment of the Aria Suite. Simply deleting the virtual machine from vCenter without following the proper clean-up steps can leave stale registrations and orphan objects within the integrated products and vCenter inventory.

Environment

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Resolution

To ensure a clean decommission of the Aria Suite Lifecycle (ASL) appliance and prevent stale metadata, follow these steps in order:

1. Delete Products: Navigate to Lifecycle Operations > Environments, select your environment, and choose Delete Product from the product tile's vertical ellipsis.

2. Delete Environments: Once empty, click the vertical ellipsis on the environment card and select Delete Environment.

3. Remove vCenter Associations: Go to Lifecycle Operations > Data Centers and remove the associated vCenter Server(s).

4. Appliance Removal: Power off the ASL VM in vCenter and select Delete from Disk.