VM Decommission Checklist

[Deepakdpu9]

Can anyone help with the VM decommission checklist?

[RickVerstegen]

Can you be more specific?

Do you want to achieve a checklist for vm decommision like:

Remove DNS records

Remove from AD domain

Remove from monitoring

Etc..

Is that wat you're looking for?

[Deepakdpu9]

Hi Rick,

I want to jolt down all the steps involved in properly decommissioning a VM.

[ChrisFD2]

That would largely depend on your environment. As above, plus additional steps perhaps, such as removal from SCCM, backup software etc.

[Deepakdpu9]

Can you help me identify all the steps in sequence?

[mskupin]

As ChrisFD2 and RickVerstegen​ wrote: everything depends on your environment. If it is only vSphere, then you should shutdown VM and delete it. But then there are such steps like:

• Disjoin from domain
• Remove from DNS
• Remove from backup tool
• Remove from monitoring tool
• Remove from automation tool (SCCM, Baldelogic, etc.)
• Remove from CMDB
• Remove from AV server
• etc.

Everything depends what you have in your enviroment.

[Dave_the_Wave]

How is deleting a VM from disk any different than getting rid of a physical box?

And does the VM really need to be "deleted"?

Why not just power it off, and see what happens?