¿Why ManageIQ does not remove discovered VMs from vCenter?

[flealf]

I have ManageIQ installed connected to vCenter as a VM provider, and I realized that when I want to delete a VM that was not provisioned from ManageIQ itself but was created from vCenter, the removal process ends without errors but the VM still exists in the vCenter.

I'm connecting to "[email protected]" to rule out any "permissions and privileges" issues.

a) VM created/provisioned from ManageIQ : Lifecycle -> Remove Selected Item:
Result:

• MIQ Power State: Archived
• vCenter: Successfully erased from disk

b) VM created/discovered from vCenter: Lifecycle -> Remove Select Item:
Result:

• MIQ Power State: Archived

• vCenter: VM turned off, still exists.

  Is this expected and normal behavior of ManageIQ or do I have to do something to remove them from vCenter as well.

Regards

[agrare]

Hey @flealf yes this is correct when retiring a VM MIQ will only delete it from the underlying provider if it was provisioned by MIQ: https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-content/blob/master/content/automate/ManageIQ/Infrastructure/VM/Retirement/StateMachines/Methods.class/__methods__/remove_from_provider.rb#L39

We seem to have gone back and forth on this, it was removed in #6290 then added back in #9233

If you want VM retirement to remove the vm from the underlying provider you can tag it with lifecycle/retire_full according to that PR. Surprisingly I don't see this in our documentation but it is in pemgc's automate guide https://github.com/pemcg/manageiq-automation-howto-guide/blob/master/chapter18/retirement.md#default

[agrare]

I created ManageIQ/manageiq-documentation#1790 to track documenting this behavior

[flealf]

Thank you so much @agrare for your help. Let me check the links you recommend to adjust my settings.

Best regards