You can use the vdmadmin command with the -S option to remove the entry for a Connection Server instance from the VMware Horizon configuration.

Syntax

vdmadmin -S [-b authentication_arguments] -r -s server

Usage Notes

To ensure high availability, VMware Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server instances in a Connection Server group. If you disable a Connection Server instance in a group, the entry for the server persists within the VMware Horizon configuration.

To make the removal permanent, perform these tasks:

  1. Uninstall the Connection Server instance from the Windows Server computer by running the Connection Server installer.
  2. Remove the Adam Instance VMwareVDMDS program from the Windows Server computer by running the Add or Remove Programs tool.
  3. If the Connection Server is part of a CPA federation then, remove the Adam Instance VMwareVDMDSG program from the Windows Server computer by running the Add or Remove Programs tool.
  4. On another Connection Server instance, use the vdmadmin command to remove the entry for the uninstalled Connection Server instance from the configuration.

If you want to reinstall VMware Horizon on the removed systems without replicating the VMware Horizon configuration of the original group, restart all the Connection Server hosts in the original group before performing the reinstallation. This prevents the reinstalled Connection Server instances from receiving configuration updates from their original group.

Note: If you remove the Connection Server instance with the vdmadmin -S command without a clean uninstallation of LDAP instances on the server as described above, then you might accidentally remove the schema master node, which blocks future upgrades and installations of Connection Servers.

Options

The -s option specifies the NetBIOS name of the Connection Server instance to be removed.

Examples

Remove the entry for the Connection Server instance connsvr3. 

vdmadmin -S -r -s connsvr3