How to forcefully remove/unprepare a host?

[ChrisPaggen]

Howdy,

In the Manage&Monitor->Hosts tab I have a host which can't be repaired or unprepared. I can enable and disable it but it just won't go away. VCD has IP connectivity to that host.

Is there a way to forcefully remove a host?

What I am after is starting from scratch (this is a lab) without re-installing everything or reverting to snapshots. Because of that stale host I can't detach the current vCenter. The GUI says "prepared hosts still exist".

Thanks,

Chris.

[ChrisPaggen]

BTW I checked KB 1025716 but there's no trace of vslad on the ESXi host that won't unprepare/get removed:

/opt/vmware/uninstallers # ls
VMware-aam-ha-uninstall.sh  VMware-vpxa-uninstall.sh
/opt/vmware/uninstallers # cd /

~ # find . -name "*vsla*" -print
~ #

[sjoglekar · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Is 'prepare host' option available to you? If yes, use that option to prepare the host. If it's not available, then the only way is the following:

1. Go to VC using vSphere Client

2. Detach and remove the host from VC

3. reattach the host to VC

4. Prepare the host from the vCloud UI

This should work.

Thanks,

Sangeeta

[ChrisPaggen]

That did the trick, thanks!

[yarko]

Couldn't repair or unprepare until I followed the same procedure. Thanks!