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Removing Replication from a VM when replication manager no longer exists in the environment

I have run into an issue. Over the years the environment have been upgraded several times. At one point there was a vsphere replication set up that is no longer in use and has been removed. We have several VM's that still think they are configured for replication as there are notification on those VM's stating "No connection to VR server: Not responding" The replication server is no longer in the environment, and there is no Site Recovery option in vcenter. I did find an article for disabling replication from the command line for a VM, but is there a better way to remove all replication settings from the VM like it was never configured?

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Alex_Romeo
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HI,

a question, but when it was removed, was it done correctly?

Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server If the Appliance Was Deleted

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Blog: https://www.aleadmin.it/
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ashilkrishnan
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Hi

Once replication is configured, it's the source ESXi host that runs the replications. As mentioned by AlessandroRomeo68  you can try to un-register VR extension, however there are chances that the replications tags will still be there even after removing VR extension from vCenter and if so, you need to stop replication of these VMs directly from ESXi host - VMware Knowledge Base

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