Remove orphaned provisioned custom resources

[pizzle85]

I have vRA Business Groups configured as a custom resource. I had provisioned some business groups which created vRA custom resource items. I manually deleted the business groups, which left the vRA custom resource items in the vRA GUI but removed the actual vRA business groups. How do i remove the orphaned custom resource item?

[SeanKohler · Accepted solution]

Easiest way is to create a Resource Action for the business group resource and point it at a workflow that takes BusinessGroup as an input and BusinessGroup as an output.  (it can just have a script task in it that makes out = in, syslogs, or whatever)  When you create the resource action, select the "Disposal" Type in the Resource Action Details.  Then entitle the Action to yourself and run the action on the resource.

I was trying to clean up our lab a bit, so I don't have the direct example for business groups as shown on the items tab... but this is basically what the action would look like...

[SeanKohler]

So I would add...

If you have a custom resource inventory item of type BusinessGroup... you could use the Disposal workflow to both remove the inventory item and delete the business group.

This is actually where I want to go in our environment, but I need to sell some concepts first.    I created a suite of business group/entitlement/reservation workflows that are primed for Business Group as a Service.

[pizzle85]

thanks for that!

[pizzle85]

Thanks Sean, we have vRA as a Service set up and running. Users log into vRA and can select a blueprint that sets them up in vRA as customers in our Tenant. I also have a remove service workflow that does just what you describe. I just had some orphaned business groups and forgot how to remove them...

[SeanKohler]

Excellent!  It is good to hear your practices and experiences.  Thanks!