Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.1 Installation and Deployment Guide

Uninstalling a single vRPA cluster from a vCenter manually

Perform this procedure to uninstall one vRPA cluster from a vCenter.

1. If the vRPA cluster is active:
   1. Unprotect the virtual machines. For more information, see Unprotect VMs.
   2. Remove all ESX clusters from the vRPA cluster. For more information, see Remove ESX clusters from vRPA clusters. Repeat this step for all ESX clusters in the vRPA cluster.
2. If you are removing just one vRPA cluster from a system with at least two clusters, perform the following procedure: Uninstall a vRPA cluster.
   If the procedure Uninstall a vRPA cluster was successful, skip to step 6. If the procedure Uninstall a vRPA cluster failed, continue with the next step.
3. Detach the vRPAs from the cluster. For more information, see Detaching vRPAs.
4. Power off the vRPAs. For more information, see Powering off vRPAs.
5. Remove the custom tokens that correspond to the RecoverPoint for VMs cluster ID. For more information, see Removing custom tokens from the Managed Object Browser.
6. Delete from all datastores the repository folder of the cluster you are uninstalling. For more information, see Deleting the repository folder.
7. Verify that the configuration parameters are empty. For more information, see Verifying that the configuration parameters are empty.
   NOTE:Perform this step only if you encountered problems when unprotecting the VMs. Performing this step requires downtime of the production VM.
8. Ensure that the vRPA virtual machines are powered off, and delete them.
9. If the ESX cluster you are removing is not registered to any other vRPA cluster, you can uninstall the RecoverPoint for VMs splitter on that ESXi host. For more information, see Uninstall the RecoverPoint for VMs Splitter and JIRAF.