Disassociate Aria products from SDDC Manager

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

• This article provides the steps to remove one or more Aria products from SDDC Manager without actually deleting their Virtual Machine or configuration in vCenter or NSX. 
• This script can also fully delete vRSLCM from SDDC Manager and vCenter.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x
VMware Cloud foundation 5.x

Resolution

Follow the below mentioned steps to disassociate Aria product from SDDC Manager or for fully deleting vRSLCM.

1. Download the script "eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh" to the SDDC Manager Virtual Machine.

2. Copy the script using WinSCP to /home/vcf directory in SDDC Manager

3. Take a snapshot of SDDC Manager VM

4. SSH to SDDC Manager with vcf user and su to root

5. Provide permissions to execute the script

   chmod 777 /home/vcf/eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh

    

   eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh echo "Description of the script options here."
   
   The output displayed will be:
   
   

   echo -h | --help	Displays help menu
   echo -wsa	Disassociate WSA from SDDC Manager
   echo -vra	Disassociate VMware Aria Automation from SDDC Manager
   echo -vrops	Disassociate VMware Aria Operations from SDDC Manager
   echo -vrli	Disassociate VMware Aria Operations for Logs from SDDC Manager
   echo -all	Disassociate all VMware Aria products from SDDC Manager
   echo -delete_vrslcm	Fully deletes VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Instance and Tier 1 Gateway

   
   
   
6. Choose your option and execute the script
   
   Note:
   Running the command by including echo will not work.
   Remove "echo" in the command, and run the following instead:
   eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh -"Description of the script options here."
   
   For Example:
   
   For deleting vrops

   ./eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh -vrops

   
   For deleting vrslcm

   ./eject_vrs_delete_vrslcm.sh -delete_vrslcm

7. When prompted for:  provide credentials of SDDC Manager Instance, i.e., <[email protected]>

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