When I work with a customer for a health check of their VMware environment we have a set of internal tools we can leverage in our TAM organization. What is a TAM you may ask?, check out VMware Technical Adoption Manager
If a customer has VMware Aria Operations stood up, that is one of the first places I like to start to get an understanding of what we could find to clean up the environment. Think of it as getting rid of clutter so you can obtain a better visual. When I refer to waste, I’m talking about; PoweredOff virtual machines, virtual machines provisioned, left on and were never used for an intended purpose, snapshots! and finally orphaned disks, (aka Zombie VMDKs) as referred to by RVTools.
While Aria Operations is not the only tool that can achieve these tasks, it does make for a nice integration and the ability to track and report against it.
Check out a quick YouTube tutorial on using the ‘Reclaim’ feature in Aria Operations.
