Unpair a remote site

To remove the established trust between the local site and a remote site, unpair the remote site from the local site by using the appliance management interface.

This procedure applies for the following appliance roles:

• On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance, see step 2.
• On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance, see step 3.
• vCenter Replication Management Appliance, see step 4.

Prerequisites

Delete all configured replications between the local site and the remote site.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management interface of the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance.
   1. In a Web browser, go to https://Appliance-IP-Address/ui/admin.
   2. Select Appliance login or SSO login and enter the root or the single sign-on user credentials.
   3. Click Login.
2. Remove the established trust between the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance and the Cloud Director site.
   • If this On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance is still paired with the cloud site, first, from the on-premises site unpair the cloud site, then similarly from the cloud site, delete the remaining on-premises site pairing.
   • If from the cloud site this On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance pairing is already deleted, remove the remaining pairing record in the on-premises site. When done, you see a red Peer site 'on-prem-site-name' was not found message because the remote site pairing is removed already.
   1. In the left pane, click Settings.
   2. Under Site settings next to Pairing, click Unpair.
   3. In the Unpair from cloud site window, authorize with VMware Cloud Director then click Apply.
      • When using token authentication for VMware Cloud Director, from the Authorization type drop-down menu, select VCD API Token, enter the Organization, then paste the VCD API Token. For more information, see Generate an API access token for pairing from VMware Cloud Director.
      • Alternatively, when using local users in VMware Cloud Director, from the Authorization type drop-down menu, select VCD Local User (DEPRECIATED), then enter the Organization Admin user name and Organization Password.
      The Pairing section shows Not configured and the cloud site registration is removed.
3. Remove the established trust between the On-Premises to Cloud vCenter Replication Appliance and the provider cloud site.
   1. In the left pane, click Peer Sites.
   2. Select the cloud site and click Delete.
4. Remove the established trust between two provider vCenter Replication Management Appliance instances.
   1. In the left pane, click Peer Sites.
   2. Select the remote site and click Delete.
   3. To delete the remaining pairing record, log in to the remote site and repeat this step.

Results

The pairing between this local site and the remote site is removed.

What to do next

• If you performed this procedure from the on-premises site first, in the cloud site backed by VMware Cloud Director the on-premises site still shows as paired. After unpairing the on-premises site, the service provider can remove the remaining record from the cloud site for the unpaired on-premises site. For more information, see Unpair paired sites from the Cloud Director site.
• You can remove the established connection between the on-premises appliance and vCenter Server, see Unregister the VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In from vCenter Server.
• You can repair with the remote site, see Repair with a remote site.