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How to delete a vCenter Server advanced setting

Duncan Epping · Oct 23, 2020 ·

I had a customer asking this week how he could delete an advanced setting that he had incorrectly added to vCenter Server. Some of you may have found yourself in this situation as well where you realized you made a typo while creating an advanced setting for the vCenter Server configuration. Unfortunately, there’s no option to delete an advanced setting in the H5 interface, but you can manually remove them via the command-line. It is rather straight forward:

  • SSH to you vCenter Server
  • Go to the “shell”
  • go to director: /etc/vmware-vpx/
  • Edit the file “vpxd.cfg”
  • Simply find the entry and delete the entry (with “vi” you use “/” to search)
  • Restart VPXD by running the following command
    service-control --restart vmware-vpxd

And that is it, now your advanced setting should be cleared, I will put in a request though for a “delete option” in the H5 interface.

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  1. Murat Tamer says

    17 January, 2021 at 05:06

    Helped me very much thank you, except restart command goes with — when you paste it is a single -. Note

    • Duncan Epping says

      18 January, 2021 at 08:56

      thanks for the comment, changed the format so that it is more obvious.

  2. Guillaume says

    23 April, 2021 at 16:04

    hello, thanks for the tip !
    do you know if somewhere there is a list of all allowed settings with default value ?
    thanks !

  3. Matt Mancini says

    15 June, 2021 at 23:35

    Thanks Duncan, this quick blog saved me loads of time!

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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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