Azure VM Day-2 power actions grayed out on reused resource path in Aria Automation 8.18.1

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Day-2 power actions (Power On/Power Off) will be unavailable or grayed out for Azure virtual machines in the deployment view. This occurs when an Azure VM is redeployed using a previously used Azure resource path before the previous machine record is fully retired in Aria Automation.

• Deployment-level Day-2 "Power On" or "Power Off" actions are unavailable or grayed out.
• Querying /iaas/api/machines for the VM name returns totalElements: 0.
• The deployment's Terraform resources report syncStatus: SUCCESS and state: OK.
• The issue reproduces when deleting and recreating a VM on the same Azure ARM resource path within a short interval (e.g., under 2 hours).

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1

Cause

The Aria Automation IaaS service fails to create a new Cloud.Azure.Machine record because the previous record for the same Azure resource path has not yet been retired/purged. The deployment-level power action requires this machine entry to be populated with the correct operations list.

Resolution

Contact Broadcom Support If you encounter this collision, consider the following:

1. Increase Redeployment Interval: Allow a longer duration between deleting a VM and redeploying it with the same instance name. Observations suggest that intervals of several days are typically sufficient for the record to retire.
2. Verify Machine Entry Status: Query /iaas/api/machines for the VM. If the result returns totalElements: 0, the machine record is missing, confirming the record has not been created.

Additional Information

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