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Deleting virtual data centers

Deleting virtual data centers

VMware Shared is no longer available for new deployments. Existing instances are supported until 15 January 2025. Ensure that you migrate all your VMware Shared resources to IBM Cloud® for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service by 15 January 2025. For more information, see End of Support for VMware Shared deployments.

You can delete a virtual data center when it's in the Ready To Use state.

Before you delete your virtual data center, ensure that any items that you created within the are removed. Items might include the following artifacts.

  • vApps, vApp templates, and virtual machines (VMs). You must remove these items even if they are stopped.
  • Organization networks that are removed or unshared from the virtual data center.
  • Organization catalogs.
  • DHCP pools created within the Organization virtual data center edge gateway.
  • Custom routes that are defined on the Organization virtual data center edge gateway distributed router.
  • Load balancer custom configurations defined on the Organization virtual data center edge gateway.
  • VPN custom configurations defined on the Organization virtual data center edge gateway.

Considerations when you delete virtual data centers

All of the virtual data center VM restore points in Veeam are automatically deleted when you delete a VMware Shared virtual data center.

Any job that includes instructions to back up the VM fails when the VM restore points in Veeam are deleted. However, the existing VMs in the job are still backed up, the job status is marked as failed. To remove the failed status, you must manually edit the job to remove the instruction to back up the VMs that are now deleted.

Procedure to delete virtual data centers from the Resources page

  1. From the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VMware Shared from the left navigation pane.
  2. In the VMware Shared table, expand the site name and find the virtual data center to delete.
  3. Click the vertical overflow menu next to the Status column, and then click Delete instance. The status of the virtual data center is changed to Deleting. When the virtual data center is deleted successfully, the components of the virtual data center are released, and the status is changed to Deleted.

Procedure to delete virtual data centers from the virtual data center details page

  1. From the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VMware Shared from the left navigation pane.
  2. In the VMware Shared table, expand the site name and click the virtual data center to delete.
  3. Click Actions next to vCenter console, and then click Delete instance. The status of the virtual data center is changed to Deleting. When the virtual data center is deleted successfully, the components of the virtual data center are released, and the status is changed to Deleted.
  4. If you want to delete the virtual data center record from the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console, complete the following steps:
    1. Click Actions again and then click Delete from the console.
    2. In the Delete instance window, click Delete.