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name: vmwaresolutions-cr_view-delete-instance
title: Viewing and deleting Cyber Recovery instances
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
last-updated: 2025-10-24
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Viewing and deleting Cyber Recovery instances
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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You can view the summary and detailed information of the Cyber Recovery instances that you provisioned on the **Resources** > **Cyber Recovery** page. The available information is similar to that of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. For more information, see [Viewing Automated instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_viewinginstances&format=markdown).

If you want to release the components that you ordered in a Cyber Recovery instance, you can delete the instance. The process to delete Cyber Recovery instances is similar to that of Automated instances. For more information, see [Deleting Automated instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_deletinginstance&format=markdown).

## Related links
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* [Cyber Recovery overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-cr_overview&format=markdown)
* [Requirements for Cyber Recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-cr_orderinginstance_reqs&format=markdown)
* [Cyber Recovery with Veeam architecture overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-veeam-cr-sa-overview&format=markdown)