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  • 1.  VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Oct 16, 2018 03:57 PM

    Can anyone help with the VM decommission checklist?



  • 2.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Oct 16, 2018 04:06 PM

    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?



  • 3.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Oct 16, 2018 04:09 PM

    Hi Rick,

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



  • 4.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 16, 2018 07:11 PM

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



  • 5.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Oct 17, 2018 01:37 PM

    Can you help me identify all the steps in sequence?



  • 6.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Oct 18, 2018 06:12 AM

    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.



  • 7.  RE: VM Decommission Checklist

    Posted Nov 07, 2018 11:21 PM

    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?