Might be a stupid question // vSphere 6 linked mode

jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
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I love how easy it is to setup .. but how to you remove a vCenter again from the first PCS ?
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  • JohnjonesJohnjones Member Posts: 105 ■■□□□□□□□□
    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...
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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

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

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

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

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    But now I want to remove the SECOND one again and I got no clue how to do that cleanly ...
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    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.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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

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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    @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.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I want to get rid of the second one altogether .. Getting dizzy just by looking at the first one ..
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  • JohnjonesJohnjones Member Posts: 105 ■■□□□□□□□□
    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.
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  • shezy77shezy77 Member Posts: 160
    See KB: VMware KB: Decommissioning the vCenter Server or a Platform Services Controller
    2013: ICND1 [Passed] ... ICND2 [Passed] ... VCA-DCV [Passed] ... 70-410 [Passed] ... 70-411 [Passed] ... VCA-Cloud [Passed] ... VCA-WM [Passed] ... 70-412 [Passed]

    2014: 74-409 [Passed] ... VCP5 [Passed]
    Current working on: VCAP5-DCA
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    shezy77 wrote: »
    See KB: VMware KB: Decommissioning the vCenter Server or a Platform Services Controller

    Swee, thanks :)
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  • QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    cmsso-util - if it works.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    QHalo wrote: »
    cmsso-util - if it works.

    Sounds ... reassuring :s

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