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.