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MichaelLeone
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Manually removing placeholder VMs when protected VM is deleted

We run SRM 5.5. We had some protected VMs we didn't need anymore, so they were deleted from disk (I didn't do it). When I found out about it, I went into SRM and removed protection for these deleted VMs. Most of the placeholder VMs were properly removed by this procedure, however, I still see 2 placeholder VMs for VMs that don't exist anymore. No idea why just these 2 (out of about 6) were not cleaned up.

My question: can I manually just delete these placeholder VMs? They are not in any protection group, or recovery plan. And the protected VMs that correspond to these placeholders no longer exist. It's like they are zombie placeholders. 🙂

There shouldn't be any issue with me deleting the placeholder VMs manually, is there?

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JagadeeshDev
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HI

Yes, its safe to delete the place holder vm .  Make sure that the source VM is unprotected and no replication is been configured. Restart the SRM service .

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JagadeeshDev
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HI

Yes, its safe to delete the place holder vm .  Make sure that the source VM is unprotected and no replication is been configured. Restart the SRM service .

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MichaelLeone
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The source VM does not exist. It is not listed in any Protection Group, either as protected or unprotected. We use array-based replication (EMC RecoverPoint) rather than vSphere replication.

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