VMware prevent VM from deletion on Delete action

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Hello,
Can somebody point on the source code which triggers delete VM from VMware on host delete?
I need to skip that step, since we have a custom scripts which move VMs to archive storage (Disassociate is not an option, we still want to control VMs from foreman and be able to jump to the console)

Thanks

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Hi,

the vm deletion is here - https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/models/concerns/orchestration/compute.rb#L75-L79

if you plan to send a patch, there’s and RFE to make VM deletion optional when we delete a host. It could be a global setting perhaps. If you decide to work on this, feel free to use existing redmine issue Feature #22737: Flag to avoid deletion from compute resource of an host associated when it’s removed from satellite - Foreman

Hope this helps

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Yeah, already found it yesterday.
Definetely this should go as a global option.
I’ll check the redmine ticket.
Thanks.

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