Greetings,
During my initial installation of VDP using the local admin account everything worked without a hitch.
Why i reinstalled the appliance was that i initially tried to change the user that authenticates to the VC from the VDP appliance was to use a lesser powerful user account. The VDP stopped working, and i tried to switch back to the original admin account with no luck.
So I reinstalled the appliances using the same dns names for each appliance. Everything is setup and all the checks are a go, but the backup jobs immediately failed everytime.
I feel that there are hooks in the system where something is disassociated from the reinstalled appliances. Maybe somewhere in the Vcenter DB, SSO, etc?
Could someone assist with a step by step clean uninstall of VDP which i hope will resolve the issue,
Thank you
dhayashi
Clean steps for VDP uninstall
1. Power off & delete the appliance
2. But you'll still see VDP plugin in the UI, So unregister the VDP plugin through the vcenter object browser(MOB)
In your vCenter, open object browser - https://<ip of your vcenter>/mob
Once prompted, provide the vcenter credentails
Click on content
Click on the extensionmanager
You should see some extension with vdp (eg:- com.vmware.vdp) or similar
clcik on unrgisterextension method and enter "com.vmware.vpd" or whatever you see in the above step
click on Invoke method.
You are done !
Restart the web client service and you are all set.
Go to UI and you will not find 'vSphere Data Protection' listed there.
3. Now you start with a fresh install
Thank you Suresh!
BTW where did you learn how to do this? What is the reference you learned this from?
Thank you.
dhayashi
Traditionally most of the UI plugins for vsphere are registered in that path
Well, the official vmware solution to my issue was the following KB.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2037003
Thanks Ken and the engineers for the solution
If your symptoms are the following - try the KB