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Table 2‑15. Action Menu Options (Continued)
Action Resource Type Description
Destroy Cloud Machine, Deployment, Virtual Machine, and
VMware NSX Edge
Immediately destroy a provisioned
resource. You must run this action
to destroy XaaS resources, even if
they are part of a deployment you
are destroying. Other resources are
destroyed when their lease or their
archival period ends.
With the exception of XaaS,
destroying components of a
deployment is not a recommended
best practice. It is recommended to
use the scale in action to reduce the
number of machines in your
deployment, or destroy the entire
deployment.
The Destroy action is not available
for the following deployment
situations:
n
physical machine deployments
n
deployments with an NSX
existing network or NSX
existing security resource
n
deployments with an NSX on-
demand load balancer resource
Because an NSX load balancer is
property of an on-demand NSX
edge, when an NSX edge is
destroyed, the load balancer
resource is also destroyed and
resources are released. When a
machine tier that is load balanced is
destroyed, it is removed from the
load balancer pool on the respective
NSX edge.
Note Note: Storage and memory
that are assigned to a provisioned
machine by a reservation are
released when the machine to
which they are assigned is deleted
in vRealize Automation by the
Destroy action. The storage and
memory are not released if the
machine is deleted on the
vCenter Server.
When destroying a deployment that
contains an Amazon machine
component, all EBS volumes that
were added to the machine during
its life cycle are detached, rather
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