Cleaning up old resources doesn't seem to work

[kaufmanm]

We have a lot of old virtual machine resources we'd like to clean out of our VCOPS environment, but despite having controller.properties stanzas like below (as recommended in KB 2020638) and restarting vcops-admin, no resources ever seem to be deleted:

#automatically delete not existing resources

deleteNotExisting=true

#time in hours an object must be in the not existing state before it can be deleted

deletionPeriodInHours=168

#time in hours between resource deletion scheduling

deletionSchedulePeriod=24

I see these lines in admin.log but I don't know if they're related:

Oct 10, 2014 11:05:04 AM - User system Deleted 20 Resources.

Oct 10, 2014 11:05:06 AM - User system Deleted 20 Resources.

Oct 10, 2014 11:05:08 AM - User system Deleted 20 Resources.

Even if it did delete 60 resources at one point, there are hundreds of VMs with no metrics, with relationships to vCenters that don't exist.

[mark_j · Accepted solution]

Have you waited 192 hours since the last vcops service restart? On which VM did you modify this file?

The orphaned VMs you refer to, are they from a VMWARE adapter that still alive and collecting?

[kaufmanm]

Thanks Mark I think you identified the problem; I had updated controller.properties on the UI VM and not the analytics VM.