Updating incorrect project and cloud zone allocation data in Aria Automation

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• In  Aria Automation, you may observe that the allocated resource data (CPU, Memory, Storage, or Instance counts) for a Project or Cloud Zone is inaccurate.

• This typically occurs in the UI when managed VMs or disks are missing proper placement links in the underlying database, leading to incorrect resource accounting.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

This issue is caused by missing or incorrect groupResourcePlacementLink attributes within the compute_state and disk_state records. When these links are broken, the system fails to include those resources in the total allocation for the project or cloud zone.

Resolution

Resolution
The resolution for this behavior requires identifying and fixing corrupted placement links across your Project and Cloud Zone configurations. 

Please refer to core article  KB 396325. for the required diagnostic scripts and manual remediation procedures.

Additional Information

This issue is addressed in VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 Patch 4.

Please find the release notes below:

VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 Cumulative Update 4 Release Notes

Note: If existing onboarded virtual machines with empty group resource placement links are already present in the environment, the Patch 4 fix only prevents the cleanup of the group resource placement link for newly onboarded virtual machines.

It does not remediate or correct the existing data already affected in the environment.