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 .
- Log in to the Console at https://console.cloud.vmware.com/csp/gateway/discovery.
- Select your SDDC, and then clickOpen vCenter.
- Log in to the .
- In the , click .
- On theSite Recoveryhome tab, select a site pair and clickView Details.
- Click theRecovery Planstab, right-click on a recovery plan and selectDelete.You cannot delete recovery plans that are running.
- Click theProtection Groupstab, click on a protection group, and select theVirtual Machinestab.
- Highlight all virtual machines, right-click, and selectRemove Protection.Removing protection from a virtual machine deletes the placeholder virtual machine from the recovery site. Repeat this operation for all protection groups.
- In theProtection Groupstab, right-click a protection group and selectDelete.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.
- Select, and remove all inventory mappings.
- Click each of theNetwork Mappings,Folder Mappings, andResource Mappingstabs.
- In each tab, select a site, right-click a mapping, and selectDelete.
- For both sites, clickPlaceholder Datastores, right-click the placeholder datastore, and selectRemove.
- Click theReplicationstab and select all replications fromOutgoing replicationsandIncoming replications.
- Click theRemoveicon.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 selectingForce 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.
- ClickRemoveto confirm that you want to stop replicating the virtual machines.
- Select, and clickBreak Site Pair.
- Deactivate .
- Log in to the Console at https://console.cloud.vmware.com/csp/gateway/discovery.
- Click your SDDC, and then clickView Details.
- SelectSite Recoveryand clickDeactivate.