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name: vmwaresolutions-vpc-vcf-host-deleting
title: Deleting ESXi servers from VCF for VPC 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.
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# Deleting ESXi servers from VCF for VPC 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 contract the capacity of your VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC instance according to your business needs by deleting VMware ESXi™ servers.

## Before you delete ESXi servers from VCF for VPC instances
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* Ensure that the current user has access to the IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (IBM Cloud VPC) resources for the VCF for VPC instance from which you want to delete ESXi servers.
* Ensure that the number of remaining hosts after deletion still meets the minimum host requirements for each of the VCF for VPC clusters.
* You can delete only ESXi servers that are ordered or added through the VMware Solutions console.
* When the ESXi servers are deleted from the VCF for VPC instance, all its IBM Cloud VPC resources (bare metal servers and the network interfaces of the servers) are also deleted from IBM Cloud®.
* You can delete ESXi servers through automation only for the management and workload clusters in a VCF for VPC instance.

## Procedure to delete ESXi servers from VCF for VPC instances
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1. In the VMware Solutions console, click **Resources** > **KMIP for VMware** from the left navigation panel.
2. In the **VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC** table, click the instance from which you want to delete ESXi servers.
3. Click the **Infrastructure** tab.
4. In the **Domains** table, click the domain from which you want to delete ESXi servers.
5. In the **Hosts** section, select the servers that you want to delete and click **Remove hosts**.
6. In the **Remove hosts** window, type the hostname to confirm, then click **Delete**.

## Results after you delete ESXi servers from VCF for VPC instances
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1. You might experience a slight delay on the console while the instance status changes from **Available** to **Modifying**. Allow the operation to complete before you make more changes to the instance.
2. You are notified by email after you delete hosts from the VCF for VPC instance. If the operation is successful, the hosts are deleted from the **Hosts** table.

## Related links
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* [VCF for VPC overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vpc-vcf-ovw&format=markdown)
* [Ordering VCF for VPC instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vpc-vcf-ordering&format=markdown)
* [Viewing VCF for VPC instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vpc-vcf-viewing&format=markdown)
* [Deleting VCF for VPC instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vpc-vcf-deleting&format=markdown)