Currently, there is no resolution.
Ensure you do not uninstall the Site Recovery Manager database before uninstalling the Site Recovery Manager. For more information, see
Uninstall Site Recovery Manager.
Workaround:
To work around this issue, use one of the following options:
Option 1:
Change registry value of
UseEmbeddedDb from 1 to 0 under registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and then uninstall SRM.
Note: This procedure modifies the Windows registry. Before making any registry modifications, ensure that you have a current and valid backup of the registry and the virtual machine. For more information on backing up and restoring the registry, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article
256986.
Option 2:
- Make a note of the settings for DSN: username, password, DB name.
- Remove the old DSN to old Embedded DB.
- Install the Embedded DB.
- Create a new DSN with the same values as the old DSN.
Note: You can find vPostgres install file in the temp folder %Temp%\{88654B50-D147-44FA-9A1F-EFAAD980C428}\VMware-SRM-Postgres after extracting SRM.
- Start SRM Modify and uninstall SRM.
Note: Do not select the Delete SRM data check box.
The SRM will be uninstalled successfully.
- Uninstall Embedded DB server and remove the DSN attached to it.
- Install the SRM with Embedded DB pointing to the old VC.
- You will see a warning message that the SRM extension is already registered. Click Overwrite.