You can remove the earlier deployed Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance virtual machine (VM) from the vCenter Server.

Prerequisites

Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance VM is deployed.

Procedure

  1. From your browser, log in to the vCenter Server at https://<vCenter IP/Domain address> using the admin credentials. The Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance is located here.
  2. Go to the Appliance > Registration tab.
  3. In the SSO lookup configuration section, click Edit, and then click Unregister.
  4. In the vCenter Server details section, click Unregister.
    A confirmation dialog box appears.
  5. To unregister, click OK.
  6. Log in to the vSphere Client using your administrator credentials.
  7. Power off the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance VM.
  8. To delete the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance VM from the datastore, right-click the appliance VM.
  9. Select Delete from Disk, and click OK. For details, refer to vSphere documentation.
    The appliance is deleted from the vCenter Server. The Carbon Black Cloud Workload Plug-in is uninstalled as well. To verify, log out and log in to the vCenter Server.
  10. The Carbon Black Cloud console displays the appliance health status as Disconnected. You can verify appliance status in the Carbon Black Cloud console as follows.
    1. Log in to the Carbon Black Cloud console.
    2. From the left navigation pane, click the Settings > API Access > API Keys page.
    3. Go to the appliance API. You can see the appliance name with a link next to the appliance API name.
    4. Click the appliance name with a link. You can view appliance health status shows as Disconnected.

Results

Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance VM is permanently deleted.