Using the VMware Delete
Virtual Machine Task,
you can delete VMware virtual
machines from within the IBM® Endpoint
Manager console.
Before you begin
Ensure that the analysis
VMware Host
Overview is active. If this analysis must be activated,
a warning message is displayed in the
VMware Delete
Virtual Machine Task. You
cannot proceed without activating the analysis. Activating the analysis
can take a few minutes.
To check the status of the analysis, from
the navigation tree in the Server Automation domain,
click . In the Activate Analyses list,
ensure that the VMware Host
Overview analysis changes from Not Activated to Activated
Globally and click the VMware Host
Overview analysis. In the Analysis: VMware Host
Overview window, click the Results tab.
When the Results window is populated with one
or more computer names, the analysis is activated. If any of the computer
names displays the message "not reported", the analysis is not gathered.
For
non-English users: VMware vCenter supports
only Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German and French. You can use
this Task only
if the console language that you selected in Tivoli® Endpoint Manager console is
identical to the console language selected in VMware.
About this task
This Task is automatically
populated with data from VMware. To
work with other data, you must turn off validation and enter your
own values into the parameter field. To override the data that is
provided in the form, check whether a button exists in the Validation column
to the left of the parameter that you want to disable and select OFF.
For more information, see Turning off validation in a Task.
Complete
the following steps to delete a virtual machine.
Procedure
- Open the Server Automation domain.
- From the navigation tree in the Server Automation domain,
click .
- From the Host Configuration list,
select the VMware Delete
Virtual Machine Task.
- In the Task: VMware Delete
Virtual Machine window, from the Host menu,
select the host on which the virtual machine is running.
- From the Virtual Machine Name list,
select the name of the virtual machine that you want to delete. If
the virtual machine name that you want to delete is displayed more
than once in the Virtual Machine Name list,
you can verify that the virtual machine that you select is correct
by viewing the Virtual Machine UUID and the IP
Address fields. If you want to delete a virtual machine
whose name does not display in the Virtual Machine Name list,
select OFF on the validation button for Virtual
Machine Name in the Validation column.
If you disable validation for the Virtual Machine Name list,
the validation for the Power State is also
disabled and the Virtual Machine UUID is cleared.
You must ensure that the virtual machine name that you enter is correct
or the Task fails
in VMware.
- You can use the Power State field
to view whether the virtual machine that you want to work with is
powered on or off. You can delete virtual machines that are powered
off. However, if you want to delete a virtual machine that is powered
on, but is scheduled to be powered off at a later stage, select OFF on
the validation button for Power State in the Validation column.
You can then schedule the Task to take
action when the virtual machine is powered off.
- In the Take Action dialog box, ensure Specific
computers selected in the list below is selected and from
the list of Computer Names, select the host
on which the virtual machine that you want to delete is running and
click OK.
Results
When your virtual machine is deleted, the
Status changes
to
Completed in the
Action: VMware Delete
Virtual Machine Fixlet window. In the
Device
List of the
Virtualization Device Inventory and
in the
IBM Endpoint
Manager console
the virtual machine is still visible but is grayed-out.