Retiring CIs, Hosted OS server and Virtual Instance

[Juan Vasquez]

When a Virtual Hosted OS Server is retired, does the Virtual Machine Instance get retired?

For example, when retiring a Windows Server our automation properly set the status / operational status to retired. However, in the VMware Virtual Instance table, the corresponding VM still shows installed / operational in the status fields. Could someone assist?

Thanks!

[doug_schulze]

Trusting... that your VM admins and/or process are setting the appropriate values to the VM instances. Perhaps set up a more frequent VM Discovery to get these changes or better yet, setup the vCenter event collector so you get near real-time updates to the virtual state that matches your compute state..

[VivekSattanatha]

Hi,

If the VM Instance got removed from vCenter then in the next vCenter discovery cycle the VM instance also gets the status automatically retired. So you need to check with the VMware team what they do after retiring the guest os.

Regards,

Vivek

[Juan Vasquez · Accepted solution]

Thank you Doug and Vivek for your responses and assistance. As a result of your input, I engaged the VMware teams and now have automated their server decommissioning process via integration with System Center Orchestrator to process of OS Servers and setting the CI statuses in Windows OS and VMware Virtual Instance tables to "retired".

Regards,

Juan