Admin Machines
This tab provides a list of all VMs TopoMojo is tracking and the gamespaces they are attached to without the use of the vSphere Client.
gamespace
tells you this is a gamespace VM.pc5-ubuntu-server-2204-594
is the name of the VM.#d9b090c92728424781537c66b3ee2f4b
after the hash tag is the gamespace GUID.
The Machines tab is helpful when you want to find all the VMs related to a gamespace (e.g., PC6 Stock Topology v1
in the screen print above). You can copy the gamespace GUID and paste it into the Search field. Note that you cannot interact with the VMs from this tab.
"Orphaned" VMs
VMs tagged with __orphaned
are VMs that still exist; however, they are not connected to anything. They could have been attached to a gamespace that has since expired, and when TopoMojo asked vSphere to remove these VMs, an issue prevented vSphere from responding. Orphaned VMs should be manually deleted in vSphere.
To identify orphaned VMs, search for "orphaned" in the Search field, identify the VMs to clean up in vSphere, and delete them. Once deleted in vSphere, they won't appear on the Machines tab again.