Uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension

To upgrade or clean up your testing or development environment, you can uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension. When you uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension, you remove the software binaries. The configuration and log files remain in the file system of the host machine.

Procedure

Open an SSH connection to the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension machine.
Stop the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension Keeper service.
```
systemctl stop voss-keeper
```

Uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

If you are uninstalling VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 2.1.1, run one of the following commands, depending on your Linux distribution:

For this Linux distribution...	Use this command...
CentoOS, RHEL, Photon OS, Oracle Linux	rpm -e vmware-ose
Ubuntu, Debian	sudo apt-get remove vmware-ose

If you are uninstalling VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 1.5, 2.0 or 2.1, run the following command:
```
rpm -e vmware-ose
```

If you are uninstalling VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 1.0.X, run the following command:
```
rpm -e vmware-voss
```

The script stops VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension services and removes the software binaries from the host machine.

(Optional) After you uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension binaries, the configuration files remain in /opt/vmware/voss and the log files remain in /opt/vmware/vip. You can delete the directories by running the following command:
```
sudo rm -rf /opt/vmware/voss /opt/vmware/vip root-user-password
```