Might be a stupid question // vSphere 6 linked mode

jibbajabba

I love how easy it is to setup .. but how to you remove a vCenter again from the first PCS ?

Johnjones

OMG. I've been trying to set this up for over a week now with VMware technical support as well. No luck. I'm trying to install a PSC with two VCSA's at different locations connected to it. Before I could connect one VCSA to it, but not the other.

So I rebuilt everything...now I can't connect any VC's to the PSC. The error is something to do with can't register with SSO "Too many names". I'm temped to just say forget it at this time. Huge waste of time...

jibbajabba

I remember your post so I thought "how hard can it be" - as it turns out - not really hard actually.

Not in my case anyway ... So maybe something is odd in your environment.

During the deployment you are asked for the Deployment Type.

So my FIRST VCSA was setup with integrated PSC



The SECOND, which will be joined to the FIRST was setup so it uses an External PSC



It then asks for the SSO details .. Here I entered the details of the FIRST one



That was it. I then closed and re-opened my Web Client, connected to the FIRST one and saw both vCenters



But now I want to remove the SECOND one again and I got no clue how to do that cleanly ...

dave330i

jibbajabba wrote: »

I love how easy it is to setup .. but how to you remove a vCenter again from the first PCS ?

I suspect you'll have to go into MOB.

jibbajabba

dave330i wrote: »

I suspect you'll have to go into MOB.

Was thinking that, but none of the extensions look obvious, unless the vcenter one is the one to remove

dave330i

@jibba,

Are you deleting the 2nd vCenter or moving it to new PCS? If you're deleting vCenter, check out this KB: VMware KB: Cannot remove obsolete solution users from the Lookup Service using the vSphere Web Client. It's for 5.1 & 5.5, but I suspect similar steps for 6.0.

If you're pointing the 2nd vCenter to new PCS, check out this KB: VMware KB: Re-pointing and re-registering VMware vCenter Server 5.1 / 5.5 and components. Again, it's for 5.1 & 5.5.

jibbajabba

I want to get rid of the second one altogether .. Getting dizzy just by looking at the first one ..

Johnjones

I wish it were that simple in my environment. I did it at home fine. At work it's a different error each time. I've tried VCSA to VCSA, VCSA-PSC-VCSA and it fails with a different error every time.

shezy77

See KB: VMware KB: Decommissioning the vCenter Server or a Platform Services Controller

jibbajabba

shezy77 wrote: »

See KB: VMware KB: Decommissioning the vCenter Server or a Platform Services Controller

Swee, thanks

QHalo

cmsso-util - if it works.

jibbajabba

QHalo wrote: »

cmsso-util - if it works.

Sounds ... reassuring

Will try it once I have finished creating a workshop and blow this thing away ..