agent_platform VM

[gjbrown]

We have VMC and on it is a single VM named agent_platform that is using 1TB of space.  When I look at the broadcom article, about this it is pretty useless, other than saying it is auto created, based on integrations.  We do have HCX and we DID have Aria (but as that is no longer available, we don't). So what is this vm doing?  I have no access to control it, should I open a ticket to have support kill it? I don't want to impact my HCX if it is related to it.

Here is the broadcom article;   [VMC on AWS] Agent platform VM created automatically in Mgmt-ResourcePool

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[VMC on AWS] Agent platform VM created automatically in Mgmt-ResourcePool Issue/Introduction A virtual machine with name like "AGENT_PLATFORM_..." is automatically created in Mgmt-ResourcePool. Resolution This type of virtual machine is created in the process of activating "Integrated Services" and named like "AGENT_PLATFORM_..."This virtual machine acts as a proxy for collecting data from SDDC. View this on Broadcom >

Thanks,

Glenn 

[CCarroz]

Glenn, 

I have never honestly seen that before, but that does not look like HCX to me and if it was HCX its not up and functioning. HCX will have the main appliance, and then depending on what you deploy, a IX, NE and maybe a WAN optimizer VM, so there would be more VMs there tied to HCX since to migrate VMs you would need the IX appliance and for network extension you would need the NE appliance with the WANOP being optional. My guess is that was your data collector proxy for Aira, although I have not clue why it would still be there for a dead product, but maybe there might have been something Broadcom wanted you to do before the product was killed off? 

But yes, I would open a ticket and have them remove it since its not doing anything.   Hope this helps.