If you no longer require VMware Live Site Recovery, you must follow the correct procedure to cleanly unregister VMware Live Site Recovery.

Deploying VMware Live Site Recovery, creating inventory mappings, protecting virtual machines by creating protection groups, and creating and running recovery plans makes significant changes on both VMware Live Site Recovery sites. Before you unregister VMware Live Site Recovery, you must remove all VMware Live Site Recovery configurations from both sites in the correct order. If you do not remove all configurations before unregistering VMware Live Site Recovery, some VMware Live Site Recovery components, such as placeholder virtual machines, might remain in your infrastructure.

Unregisterring VMware Live Site Recovery breaks the connection to VMware Live Recovery.

If you use VMware Live Site Recovery with vSphere Replication, you can continue to use vSphere Replication after you unregister VMware Live Site Recovery.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, click Site Recovery > Open Site Recovery.
  2. On the Live Site Recovery home tab, select a site pair, and click View Details.
  3. Select the Recovery Plans tab, right-click on a recovery plan and select Delete.
    You cannot delete recovery plans that are running.
  4. Select the Protection Groups tab, click a protection group, and select the Virtual Machines tab.
  5. Highlight all virtual machines, right-click, and select Remove Protection.
    Removing protection from a virtual machine deletes the placeholder virtual machine from the recovery site. Repeat this operation for all protection groups.
  6. In the Protection Groups tab, right-click a protection group and select Delete .
    You cannot delete a protection group that is included in a recovery plan. You cannot delete vSphere Replication protection groups that contain virtual machines on which protection is still configured.
  7. Select Site Pair > Configure, and remove all inventory mappings.
    1. Click each of the Network Mappings, Folder Mappings, and Resource Mappings tabs.
    2. In each tab, select a site, right-click a mapping, and select Delete.
  8. For both sites, click Placeholder Datastores, right-click the placeholder datastore, and select Remove.
  9. (Optional) If you use array-based replication, select Configure > Array Based Replication > Array Pairs, and remove all array pairs.
    1. Select an array pair, click Array Pair, and click Disable.
    2. Click Array Manager Pair and click Remove.
  10. Select Site Pair > Summary, and click Break Site Pair.
    Breaking the site pairing removes all information related to registering VMware Live Site Recovery with VMware Live Site Recoveryand vCenter Server on the remote site.
  11. Log in to the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance Management Interface as admin.
  12. Click Summary, and click Unregister.
  13. Provide the required credentials, review the information, and click Unregister.
    Important: Unregistering the VMware Live Site Recovery Appliance deletes the embedded database. This process cannot be reversed.
  14. Repeat the procedure on the other site.