June 2021 – Converged, Hyperconverged Infrastructure & Virtualization

How to Unregister a VM which is missing in VRA 7.6

June 24, 2021Pradeep AdapaLeave a comment

Recently I had to get rid of multiple vms through VRA, However, I found that some of the vms status was showing as missing. This happens if the VM has already been deleted through the vCenter and VRA can’t find that VM in the vCenter.

The way you can see the missing status is you go to the deployments tab, check the Status if its ON, OFF or Missing (?) as the screenshot shows below:

The missing status is displayed next to the VM Name

Some of the info in the screenshot has been removed to protect my Organization Data and the VM Names have also been changed for the same purpose.

In VRA 7.6, you can unregister it easily using the GUI, You click on the Deployment Name

Then click on the VM Name itself (in this case its DC1Test001), then click on the small gear icon and then click on the option “Unregister” in the drop down menu as in the screenshot below:

The unregister option will remove this VM from the VRA internal DB so that it doesn’t show up in VRA.

Hope this post helps, as I was not able to see any blog posts regarding this simple unregister procedure in VRA 7.6