This counts how many times UCS Manager has retried this specific FSM stage. Deleting the policy from the fabric happens as a short ordered sequence of named steps — e.g. removing it from fabric A, then fabric B — and this record is one of those steps, tracked separately so a stall or retry can be pinpointed to the exact stage it happened at. A retry count sitting at 0 or 1 is normal; a stage stuck retrying 5 or more times against the same fabric interconnect is the signal that something on that fabric interconnect, not the QoS policy itself, is the actual problem.