Why are Zerto VRAs visible on the ESXi host in the vCenter console after Zerto is uninstalled?

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Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) are not removed after you use the IBM Cloud® infrastructure customer portal to successfully uninstall the HPE Zerto Software service.

Manually remove the VRAs from the vCenter® console.

1. Log in to the vCenter console.
2. Click Hosts and Clusters, and locate the virtual machines with names that start with Z-VRA-. For example, Z-VRA-host0-vcs40dal.vcs.icvs.org.
3. Right-click the Z-VRA- virtual machine, and click Delete from Disk.