Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.1 Installation and Deployment Guide

Uninstalling all vRPA clusters from a vCenter manually

Perform this procedure to uninstall all vRPA clusters 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 clusters. For more information, see Remove ESX clusters from vRPA clusters. Repeat this step for all ESX clusters in all vRPA clusters.
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 Internal cluster name. For more information, see Removing custom tokens from the Managed Object Browser.
6. Delete from all datastores the repository folders of all clusters. 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. Unregister the plug-in from the Managed Object Browser. For more information, see Unregistering the plugin from the Managed Object Browser.
10. Uninstall the RecoverPoint for VMs splitter. For more information, see Uninstall the RecoverPoint for VMs Splitter and JIRAF.
11. Unregister the RecoverPoint extension from the Managed Object Browser. For more information, see Unregistering the plugin from the Managed Object Browser.
12. Remove the RecoverPoint datastore element. Delete the RecoverPoint.flp file located in the RecoverPoint folder.