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  • There is no automated uninstall process for Cloud DR. The following procedure describes the steps to manually remove the Cloud DR deployment from the on-premises and from the cloud. The on-premises steps should be completed first. 

    On-prem

    Avamar and PowerProtect DP deployments:

    Avamar server can be connected only to a single Cloud DR Add-on instance. 

    When configuring the Cloud DR Add-on and Avamar connection from the Cloud DR Add-on deployment wizard, the Cloud DR Add-on registers itself to the Avamar server. If the Avamar server is already connected to a Cloud DR Add-on, another Cloud DR Add-on cannot be connected to the same Avamar server. 

    There is no Avamar user interface that supports changing the registered Cloud DR Add-on, therefore, when planning to delete the Cloud DR Add-on, it is recommended to manually remove the Avamar registration first using the Cloud DR Add-on UI. (If you deleted the Cloud DR Add-on without removing the Avamar registration, you could contact Dell support to manually override the Avamar internal DB and remove that configuration)

    Log in to the Cloud DR Add-on configuration page and remove the PowerProtect DD systems and Avamar servers.

    Power off and delete the Cloud DR Add-on virtual machine using the vSphere client.

    RecoverPoint for VMs deployments:

    Delete the consistency groups that are replicating to the cloud.

    Follow the uninstall steps described in the RecoverPoint for VMs installation and deployment guide.

    PowerProtect Data Manager deployments:

    Edit the protection policies that are configured for cloud backup and disable the Cloud DR option.

    Optional – disable the cdr service on the PowerProtect Data Manager VM.

    Cloud

    AWS

    1. Open the AWS CloudFormation service using the AWS management console on the region you deployed your CDRS.
    1. Delete all the not-nested stacks that start with “CDRS-“; first remove the RDS stack, then the CDRS-deployment one.

    1. Delete the S3 buckets that were used as cloud DR targets.
    2. Delete the IAM role CDRS-Role.
    3. There might be some leftovers from Rapid Recovery, so verify the following are removed:
      1. AMIs or snapshots that were created by the Cloud DR Server for Rapid Recovery (they have a tag name of “Created By” and tag value of “CDRS”)
      2. SQS service queues were deleted: (CDRS-RestoreService<version>-Events, CDRS-RestoreService<version>-Responses). 
        These queues are available only in case a recovery operation was initiated during the runtime of the Cloud DR Server, make sure to check all regions that you had recovery activities on.

    Azure

    1. Delete the entire CDRS-ResourceGroup resource group and its contents.
    1. Delete all other resource groups that their name starts with “CDRS-“ (that were used for recovery).