Deactivate
on

If you no longer require
, you must follow the correct procedure to cleanly deactivate the service.
Activating
, creating inventory mappings, protecting virtual machines by creating protection groups, and creating and running recovery plans makes significant changes on both the protected and the remote sites. Before you deactivate
, you must remove all
configurations from both sites in the correct order. If you do not remove all configurations before deactivating
, some components, such as placeholder virtual machines, might remain in your infrastructure.
Deactivating
removes both
and
.
  1. Select your SDDC, and then click
    Open vCenter
    .
  2. Log in to the
    .
  3. In the
    , click
    Site Recovery
    Open Site Recovery
    .
  4. On the
    Site Recovery
    home tab, select a site pair and click
    View Details
    .
  5. Click the
    Recovery Plans
    tab, right-click on a recovery plan and select
    Delete
    .
    You cannot delete recovery plans that are running.
  6. Click the
    Protection Groups
    tab, click on a protection group, and select the
    Virtual Machines
    tab.
  7. Highlight all virtual machines, right-click, and select
    Remove Protection
    .
    Removing protection from a virtual machine deletes the placeholder virtual machine from the recovery site. Repeat this operation for all protection groups.
  8. In the
    Protection Groups
    tab, right-click a protection group and select
    Delete
    .
    You cannot delete a protection group that is included in a recovery plan. You cannot delete
    protection groups that contain virtual machines on which protection is still configured.
  9. Select
    Site Pair
    Configure
    , and remove all inventory mappings.
    1. Click each of the
      Network Mappings
      ,
      Folder Mappings
      , and
      Resource Mappings
      tabs.
    2. In each tab, select a site, right-click a mapping, and select
      Delete
      .
  10. For both sites, click
    Placeholder Datastores
    , right-click the placeholder datastore, and select
    Remove
    .
  11. Click the
    Replications
    tab and select all replications from
    Outgoing replications
    and
    Incoming replications
    .
  12. Click the
    Remove
    icon.
    asks you if you want to stop permanently the replication for the selected virtual machine.
    The connection between the
    sites must be working to stop a replication on both sites. Alternatively, you can force stop the replication on the local site by selecting
    Force stop replication
    . If the remote site is available, you must also use the
    user interface to force stop the corresponding replication on the remote site. If you force stop a forward replication, the replication can still be recovered by using the
    user interface on the remote site.
  13. Click
    Remove
    to confirm that you want to stop replicating the virtual machines.
  14. Select
    Site Pair
    Summary
    , and click
    Break Site Pair
    .
  15. Deactivate
    .
    1. Click your SDDC, and then click
      View Details
      .
    2. Select
      Site Recovery
      and click
      Deactivate
      .