ESX
- SSH into the host
- Stop the vCenter agent process. –>service vmware-vpxa stop
- This also sometimes completed right away, and other times, just took more time than it should have.
- Stop the hostd process. –> service mgmt-vmware stop
- At this point, typically the host would finally disconnect from
vCenter, if it hadn’t already completed the disconnect process issued
earlier.
- Delete the user account vCenter uses to communicate with the host. –> userdel vpxuser
- Find all of the vCenter and HA processes. –> rpm -qa |grep -iE ‘vpx|aam’
- Delete the RPM’s found earlier –> rpm -e
- Start the hostd process. –> service mgmt-vware start
- Now that’s all done. Go back into vCenter and reconnect the host.
ESXi
ESXi is a slightly different beast. Since it doesn’t use a Red Hat
based service console, there are no RPM’s to remove as was done above.
To remove the agents from ESXi:
- SSH into the host
- Delete the user account vCenter uses to communicate with the host. –> userdel vpxuser
- Move into the uninstaller directory –> cd to /opt/vmware/uninstallers
- Remove the HA/aam agent –> ./VMware-aam-ha-uninstall.sh to
- Remove the vCenter agent –> ./VMware-vpxa-uninstall.sh to
- Now that’s all done. Go back into vCenter and reconnect the host
