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.
- Uninstall VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.
- If you are uninstalling VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension 2.2, 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 |
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
