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API: listVirtualMachines endpoint doesn't return VMs in Expunged state #8856
Description
ISSUE TYPE
- Bug Report
COMPONENT NAME
API
CLOUDSTACK VERSION
4.15.2, 4.18.1
CONFIGURATION
OS / ENVIRONMENT
SUMMARY
VMs in the Expunged state are not returned using the listVirtualMachines endpoint. Even usage of listall and specifying of the state doesn't help. According to docs:
Possible values are: Running, Stopped, Present, Destroyed, Expunged. Present is used for the state equal not destroyed.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1) Navigate to https://qa.cloudstack.cloud/simulator/#/vm
2) Create VM
3) Destroy VM
4) Expunge VM
4) Try to retrieve this VM using the API request and admin API and Secret Keys
EXPECTED RESULTS
Either docs are updated or VMs are returned
ACTUAL RESULTS
VMs in the `Expunged` state aren't returned
Activity
OlegChuev commentedon Apr 1, 2024
BTW I also found out that after the deletion of the VM with a custom Service Offering, ACS cleans up information from the
user_vm_detailstable. Therefore, it's impossible to retrieve information related to the VM instance, such as the amount of RAM, CPU cores, and CPU speed, since it's deleted - Not sure if I should create a separate issue for this oneDaanHoogland commentedon Apr 2, 2024
@OlegChuev not sure if this is actually desirable. An expunged VM is unrecoverable, so why would we want the user to allow to retrieve information about it?
OlegChuev commentedon Apr 2, 2024
@DaanHoogland, a list of expunged VMs could be useful for retrieving historical data. For example, users could have the ability to list information about all VMs that have been expunged, allowing them to perform filtering and other actions based on information stored on their side
In my case, I have a separate tab that displays only
Deleted/ExpungedVMs. Currently, I retrieve this data by directly accessing thecloudtable (as I mentioned in the comment, VMs with custom SO don't work well with this approach). However, it would be really helpful if we could access it via an APIyadvr commentedon Apr 30, 2024
@OlegChuev this is possible via tuning these global settings: