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VMware vCenter AppSpeed Installation
Uninstalling AppSpeed and Removing the AppSpeed Plug-In
To completely remove AppSpeed from your system, you must delete AppSpeed probes, uninstall AppSpeed,
remove the AppSpeed plug-in from the available plug-ins list and from the vSphere Client, and remove
AppSpeed users.
Procedure
1Click the Administration tab, and in the Management Tools pane click Probes Management.
2 Delete all probes by selecting the check boxes and clicking Delete Probe.
If some probes remain, delete them from the vSphere Client,
a Power off the virtual machine.
b Right-click the machine name and select Delete from Disk.
3 Delete the promiscuous port groups created by AppSpeed as part of probe deployment,
a In the vSphere Client, select a host that has a probe installed, click the Configuration tab, and click
the Networking link.
b For each vSwitch, identify and delete any port groups called vSwitch
n AppSpeed, where n is a
unique number for the vSwitch name.
c Repeat this process for each host on which a probe is installed.
4 In the vSphere Client, click Home > Inventory > VMs and Templates and delete the <namespace>
Probes folder from each datacenter in which it exists.
5 Disable the AppSpeed plug-in from the available plug-in list.
a Connect to your vCenter Extension Manager from the browser at
https://<Virtual_Center_IP>/mob/?moid=ExtensionManager.
b Select Unregister Extension.
c Copy the following string into the value text box:
com.vmware.cde.sdk.<namespace>.cliext.<namespace>
d Select the Invoke method.
e Restart the vSphere Client.
6 Delete the virtual machine on which AppSpeed Server was deployed from the vSphere Client.
a Power off the virtual machine.
b Right-click the machine name and select Delete from Disk.
7Click Home > Administration > Roles and remove AppSpeed User privileges, and the AppSpeed User
role.
8 On your client machine, click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and delete
VMWare AppSpeed plugin for VI Client.