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Bug 1555173

Summary: no documentation about refreshing cache for vmware
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: matt jia <mjia>
Component: Docs Provisioning GuideAssignee: Sergei Petrosian <spetrosi>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley>
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Version: 6.3.0CC: chrobert, mjia, spetrosi
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Description matt jia 2018-03-14 05:31:54 UTC 
Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.3/html/provisioning_guide/provisioning_virtual_machines_in_vmware_vsphere

Section Number and Name: 


Describe the issue: 

Sat6.3 has shipped a new feature of caching expensive vmware API calls[1]. Therefore, users can refresh the cache through out the UI to get the facts of compute resources updated.


[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4238

Suggestions for improvement: 

It would be good to get this documented.
Comment 9 Sergei Petrosian 2018-04-04 12:17:53 UTC 
These changes are now live on the customer portal:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.3/html/provisioning_guide/provisioning_virtual_machines_in_vmware_vsphere#Provisioning_Virtual_Machines_in_VMware_vSphere-Caching_of_Compute_resources

Thank you