vRA7 – Remove Stuck or Orphaned Managed Machines

Rather than removing the entries from the database, download the VMware Cloud Client 4.

Run the batch from a server with access to both the vRA and IaaS server.

First you need to login to your vRA Server

For Example:

vra login userpass –user <user> –password <password> –server <vRA Server> –tenant <Tenant>

To test that you are connected correctly, you could for example retrieve a list of catalog items

For Example:

vra catalog list

Next, login to the IaaS Server

For Example:

vra login iaas –server <IaaS Model Manager> –domain <domain> –user <user> –password <password>

Now get rid of those annoying machines

For Example:

vra machines forceunregister –name <Managed Machine Name>

That is it … now wait a few minutes and refresh the list of machines and you should see that those are dead and gone now.

Note: It only removes them from vRA but leaves the actual VMs alone.