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Table Of Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Maintaining and Customizing vRealize Automation Components and Options
- Broadcast a Message on the Message Board Portlet
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Replace Certificates in the vRealize Automation Appliance
- Replace the Infrastructure as a Service Certificate
- Replace the IaaS Manager Service Certificate
- Update Embedded vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Update External vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Change the Polling Method for Certificates
- Managing the vRealize Automation Postgres Appliance Database
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Adjusting System Settings
- Monitoring vRealize Automation
- Monitoring vRealize Automation Health
- Monitoring and Managing Resources
- Monitoring Containers
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
You can reduce the reserved machine quota, memory, and storage of a virtual reservation below the
amount currently allocated. This allows management of existing machines to continue without change
while preventing provisioning of new machines until allocation falls below the new reserved amount.
Note Because virtual machines that are powered off are not included in allocated memory and machine
quota totals, reducing the memory or machine allocation of a reservation might prevent machines that are
currently powered off from being powered back on.
For example, consider a business group with a reservation that contains 20 provisioned machines that
are set to expire over the next 90 days. If you want to reduce this reservation by attrition to no more than
15 machines, you can edit the reservation to reduce the quota from 20 machines to 15. No further
machines can be provisioned on the reservation until the number of machines on the reservation is
naturally reduced by the upcoming expirations.
Decommissioning a Storage Path
If you are decommissioning a storage path and moving machines to a new one, a fabric administrator
must disable the storage path in vRealize Automation.
The following is a high-level overview of the sequence of steps required to decommission a storage path:
1 A fabric administrator disables the storage path on all reservations that use it. See Disable a Storage
Path.
2 Move the machines to a new storage path outside of vRealize Automation.
3 Wait for vRealize Automation to automatically run inventory data collection or initiate inventory data
collection manually. See Configure Compute Resource Data Collection.
Disable a Storage Path
Fabric administrators can disable storage paths on reservations when storage paths are
decommissioned.
Note For each reservation where you disable a storage path, verify that there is sufficient space
remaining on other enabled storage paths.
Prerequisites
Log in to vRealize Automation as a fabric administrator.
Procedure
1 Select Infrastructure > Reservations > Reservations.
2 Point to the reservation on which the storage path you are decommissioning is used and click Edit.
3 Click the Resouces tab.
4 Locate the storage path you are decommissioning.
5
Click the Edit icon ( ).
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