Uninstalling Update Manager that Runs on Windows

Update Manager has a relatively small impact on computing resources such as disk space. Unless you are certain that you want to remove Update Manager, leave an existing installation in place.

When you uninstall the Update Manager server, the Update Manager client interface is automatically removed from the vSphere Web Client.

Note: Starting with vSphere 6.7 Update 3m, you use the vSphere Client to access the Update Manager client interface even if the Update Manager server runs on a Windows machine. When you uninstall the Update Manager server, the Update Manager client interface is not automatically removed in the vSphere Client. In the vSphere Client, you continue to see all UI elements related to Update Manager, but they return errors. To stop seeing those error messages, after you uninstall Update Manager, you must disable the VMware vSphere Update Manager Client Plugin or restart the vsphere-ui service.

You disable the VMware vSphere Update Manager Client Plugin from the Client Plugins view in the vSphere Client.

For more information about restarting the vsphere-ui service, see the VMware knowledge base article at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2109881.