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Unloading the vCD Agent

Duncan Epping · Sep 6, 2010 ·

I play around in my home lab with VMware vCloud Director(vCD) a lot. I usually end up rebuilding it once in a while. Sometimes however you do it in the incorrect order and you end up with vCD Agents installed on your ESXi host without having vCD to unprepare the host. In that situation you can either rebuild the ESXi host or uninstall the agent.

In case you ever need to, this is the method for uninstalling the agent for both ESX and ESXi:

  • Enable tech support mode (ESXi only)
  • Login with root or anyother account and sudo/su
  • run the following command
/opt/vmware/uninstallers/vslad-uninstall.sh

Of course you can also do this remotely, for instance from your linux desktop or mac:

ssh [email protected] /opt/vmware/uninstallers/vslad-uninstall.sh

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Server 4.1, esxi, vcd, vcloud, vmware cloud director, vSphere

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  1. Brian says

    7 September, 2010 at 15:31

    Related / Unrelated question: What’s your home lab made up of?

  2. Jason Boche says

    7 September, 2010 at 15:48

    This article exhibits how closely related vCD is to VMware Lab Manager.

  3. Chad King says

    13 September, 2010 at 18:42

    Definitely would like to know what many of these awesome bloggers use for a “home lab”. It seems that it is inevitable for me to update my current one.

  4. OMGitsVirtual says

    28 June, 2011 at 17:47

    I know this is an old blog post but still worth mentioning, the new VMware fling CloudCleaner is very helpful here.

    http://labs.vmware.com/flings/cloudcleaner

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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