topic Re: Unregistering SnapCenter from VSC in Data Protection

Unregistering SnapCenter from VSC

andyberry — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:33:25 GMT

Does anyone know how to unregister SnapCenter from VSC there doesn't seem to be an option to do it from VSC?

EricNTAP — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:58:23 GMT

The only way to unregister VSC from SnapCenter is to uninstall VSC. You will also need to remove the vSphere host from within SnapCenter.

andyberry — Wed, 04 May 2016 13:44:03 GMT

That seems pretty drastic. Is there no way to edit config files on the server running VSC?

EricNTAP — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:29:43 GMT

Unfortunately, at this time, there's no editable files to change this behavior.

andyberry — Mon, 16 May 2016 13:45:43 GMT

So are there any plans to put an unregister feature into VSC? it seems to be pretty drastic that you have to reinstall VSC.

I wanted to use SnapCenter in our new environment but unfortunatly had so many issues with it that I had to drop it in favour of SM for SQL.

andyberry — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:02:08 GMT

I have just spoken to a Netapp engineer and he has told me how to manually unregister SnapCenter from VSC.

On the VSC server edit the file \Program Files\Netapp\Virtual Storage Console\etc\scbr\scbr.properties

Remove everything in the file save it and then restart the Netapp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastucture service.

Much easier than resinstalling VSC

neerajd — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:52:56 GMT

Hi All,

Easiest method is just go to Snap Center host. Open powershell-->

open-smconnection -Credential <domain\account> ------------> ask for password "enter password".

now type

Remove-SmHost -Hostname <VSC hostname or Ipaddress> -Force

Remove-Smhost will remove Vsc server from Snap Center.

thanks

Neeraj