GetzVM wrote:

 

Hi there,

 

I tried my hand at installing VSA, didn't do too bad but haven't got it working.....yet. Thats ok I thought I would remove VSA and start again but the cleanup.bat file wont accept my credentials. I have followed this tutorial http://www.valcolabs.com/2011/11/01/deleting-a-vsphere-storage-appliance-vsa-cluster/ .I have modified the file to point to where Java.exe exists and I have entered my vCenter logon credentials after cleanup.bat in command but I keep getting an error telling me I have incorrect password or username.

 

If I can't use the cleanup.bat file I am thinking I will have to remove vCenter server from Win2008R2 and start again with a fresh install of vCenter.

 

Cheers.

The username and password is of an administrator account in vCenter Server.

Please make sure you have administrative privileges into VC.

the username should be a user with administrator credentials on the VC server.  Please check VC and verify that the user you are using is an admin.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsa.doc_10%2FGUID-0A3E6ACD-E548-433E-8430-904692FD0A46.html

If the user has administrative privileges then it should work.

Just in case you want to try cleanup VSA cluster manually:

1 - Remove Guest VMs
2 - Power down VSA VMs, Delete VSA VMs
3 - Remove VSA Datastores
4 - Put ESX Hosts into Maintenance Mode
5 - Move ESX Hosts out from the HA Cluster into the Datacenter
6 - Delete HA Cluster
7 - Reset each ESX Host Network Configuration to a Greenfield state (1 NIC and VM Network, Management Network with only Management checked)

8 - Close VI client

9 - net stop vctomcat

10 - net start vctomcat

HTH,

-vr@g0n

Can you post the exact error message that you are seeing and the command that you are using?

GetzVM wrote:

 

i think i noticed some ip numbers added to the vcenter nic during the vsa setup. will this manual cleanup remove those extra ips?

No, these steps won't remove IP address used for VSA Cluster service.

You will have to manually delete that IP address from "Advanced TCP/IP settings" on win2k8.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163570.aspx

GetzVM wrote:

 

thanks visharma

 

with some of the mistakes ive made playing around with vsa i am thinking about reinstalling vcenter completely if i cant get the cleanup.bat script to fully remove vsa. will uninstalling and reinstalling vcenter on the same win2008r2 server be sure to remove any and all changes vcenter and vsa made to the system?

I would encourage using cleanup.bat to remove VSA cluster, however if its not working at all and you do not care for existing vCenter server installation, then you should first uninstall "VSA Manager" from win2k8 followed by vCenter server uninstallation following Best practices for uninstalling vCenter Server.

This should undo the changes made on win2k8 however for ESXi hosts you will still have to follow the above mentioned manual steps.

@Visharma

Do you have any experience "resetting" back to a "brownfield" configuration instead?

I have a two-node cluster that was running VSA. I upgraded physical storage and had issues with the VSA Cluster coming back online. We exported the datastores, with the help of VMware support, and migrated the VMs back to non-cluster, local storage on the two hosts to power them on again. Now, we have 7 VMs running from local storage on two ESXi hosts still in the VSA Cluster and a broken cluster still in existence.

I'd like to wipe out the VSA Cluster without losing the ESXi hosts' network configurations and redeploy a new VSA without interrupting the running VMs again.

Thanks!

Further to this discussion,

We found that you need to put each section in quotes, as you might have odd characters in your passwords, for example.

thus:

cleanup.bat -u "MachineName\administrator" -p "Pa$$W^&*rd" -d "NameOfDC"

- the carat, for example, can be a special character on some platforms.

Hope that helps someone.

Thanks for answering.