Unregister the Site
Recovery Manager Appliance
Site
Recovery Manager
ApplianceIf you no longer require
Site
Recovery Manager
,
you must follow the correct procedure to cleanly unregister Site
Recovery Manager
.Deploying
Site
Recovery Manager
, creating inventory mappings, protecting virtual machines
by creating protection groups, and creating and running recovery plans makes
significant changes on both Site
Recovery Manager
sites. Before you unregister Site
Recovery Manager
, you must remove all Site
Recovery Manager
configurations from both sites in the correct order. If
you do not remove all configurations before unregistering Site
Recovery Manager
, some Site
Recovery Manager
components, such as placeholder virtual machines, might
remain in your infrastructure. If you use
Site
Recovery Manager
with vSphere
Replication
, you can continue to use vSphere
Replication
after you unregister Site
Recovery Manager
. - In thevSphere Client, click .
- On theSite Recoveryhome tab, select a site pair, and clickView Details.
- Select theRecovery Planstab, right-click on a recovery plan and selectDelete.You cannot delete recovery plans that are running.
- Select theProtection Groupstab, click 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 deletevSphere Replicationprotection 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.
- If you use array-based replication, select, and remove all array pairs.
- Select an array pair, clickArray Pair, and clickDisable.
- ClickArray Manager Pairand clickRemove.
- Select, and clickBreak Site Pair.Breaking the site pairing removes all information related to registeringSite Recovery ManagerwithSite Recovery ManagerandvCenter Serveron the remote site.
- Log in to theSite Recovery Manager ApplianceManagement Interface as admin.
- ClickSummary, and clickUnregister.
- Provide the required credentials, review the information, and clickUnregister.Unregistering theSite Recovery Manager Appliancedeletes the embedded database. This process cannot be reversed.
- Repeat the procedure on the other site.