Deleted VMs view and report not working as expected
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Issue/Introduction
Issue with the VMs view/report in the view section of Aria Operations.
In the view section, navigating to Operations > Views > Manage, configure a view that shows object deleted within 90 days.
When this view is ran against whole vSphere World, or specific vCenter under vSphere World, the view shows all existing VMs, but none that have been deleted.
Environment
Aria Operations 8.18.x
Cause
Unnecessarily usage consumption caused by several old heap dumps on all the nodes in the affected cluster.
Resolution
- Open an ssh session to all the nodes in the affected cluster.
- Check the heapdumps on all the nodes from storage/db/vcops directory.
cd storage/db/vcops - List the directory
ls - Delete the content in the directory heapdump/
Additional Information
When a time range is set, the system uses it to fetch metric/property data points collected during that period for the metrics selected in the Data tab. When "Show Objects: Deleted" is set, the system shows all deleted objects still within the retention window, regardless of when they were created or deleted.
The time range only affects what metric values appear in the data columns - not which objects are listed.
- Which objects appear is determined solely by: resource kind (Step 2), "Show Objects" setting (Existing/Deleted/All), navigation context (All Objects tree for Deleted), and Step 4 filters. No time-based filtering of objects whatsoever.
- What data is shown for those objects is determined by the time range. The system queries FSDB for data points within [startTime, endTime] and applies the transform function (Average, Max, Last, etc.) to produce the cell value.
So an object deleted 6 months ago (if still in retention) would appear in the list even if your time range is "Last 7 Days." Its metric columns would just be empty because no data was collected for it in the last 7 days.
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