VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6

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Uninstall
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 from the Cloud Director site

To remove a
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 instance from a cloud site backed by
VMware Cloud Director
, stop the replications, delete pairing with all peer sites, remove the plug-in from
VMware Cloud Director
, then remove the cloud appliances.
Verify that
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 is deployed in the cloud site backed by
VMware Cloud Director
.
When replacing an old
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 instance, to prevent the error message
VM already protected
 after installing the new
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 instance, follow the steps in this procedure.
  1. Stop all replications from and to the
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     instance you are removing.
    1. Log in to the
      VMware Cloud Director Availability
       instance that you are removing.
    2. In the left pane, click
      Incoming Replications
      .
    3. Select all the replications and click
      Delete
      .
    4. Repeat this step in
      Outgoing Replications
       and delete all the replications.
  2. Delete the established trust with all peer sites.
    1. In the left pane under
      Configuration
      , click
      Peer Sites
      .
    2. In the
      Cloud sites
       page, select a cloud site, then click
      Delete
      .
    3. In the
      Delete Peer Cloud Site
       window, to delete the cloud site pairing, click
      Delete
      .
      You deleted the pairing with the cloud site and removed the trust from both the local and the remote cloud sites.
    4. Repeat the above steps until you delete the pairing with all peer cloud sites.
    5. Delete the established trust with all on-premises sites from the cloud site.
      • If the on-premises site is still paired, delete the pairing from the cloud site, then from the on-premises site delete the remaining pairing with the cloud site. For information about deleting pairing from the on-premises site, see Unpair a remote site.
      • If from the on-premises site the cloud site is already unpaired, then delete the remaining record in the cloud site.
    6. On the
      Peer Sites
       page, under
      On-premises sites
      , click
      Delete
      .
    7. In the
      Delete On-Premises Site
       window, to delete the on-premises site pairing, click
      Delete
      .
      Above
      On-premises sites
       you see a green
      On-Premises site deleted successfully.
       message. You removed the cloud site trust with the on-premises site. If you performed this procedure from the cloud site first, in the on-premises site the cloud site still shows as paired. For more information, see Unpair a remote site.
    8. Repeat the above step until you delete pairing with all peer on-premises sites.
    You deleted all peer sites paired with this
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     instance.
  3. Remove the
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     plug-in from
    VMware Cloud Director
    .
    1. In the left pane, click
      Settings
      .
    2. Under
      Service endpoints
       next to
      VMware Cloud Director Address
      , click
      Remove plugin
      .
    3. In the
      Remove VCD UI plugin
       window, click
      Remove
      .
  4. If the management interface of
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     is not available, remove the
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     plug-in from
    VMware Cloud Director
     by using its Service Provider Admin Portal.
    1. Go to
      https://vcloud.example.com/provider
       and log in to the Service Provider Admin Portal of
      VMware Cloud Director
       by using the
      system administrator
       user credentials.
    2. From the top navigation bar, select
      More
      Customize Portal
      .
    3. Select the check box next to the name of the
      VMware Cloud Director Availability
       plug-in, then click
      Delete
      .
    4. To confirm removing the plug-in, click
      Save
      .
  5. For the
    VMware Cloud Director Availability
     instance you are removing, delete all the virtual machines of its appliances from the
    vCenter Server
     instance.
This
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 instance is now uninstalled from the cloud site backed by
VMware Cloud Director
.
You can now install a new
VMware Cloud Director Availability
 instance in the same cloud site.

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