Deleting a virtual failover client

This section provides instructions for deleting a virtual failover client (VFC) that you no longer need. Because the VFC uses appliance resources, you should delete a live VFC from the appliance soon after recovering the original client to new physical hardware. For a VFC running on a hypervisor, you have the option to delete its information from the appliance and also delete the VFC itself from the hypervisor or to delete only the information from the appliance without removing the VFC from the hypervisor.

When you delete a VFC, it is immediately removed from the list of VFCs in the Administrator Interface of the Unitrends appliance. However, it can take several minutes for all information about the VFC to be purged from the appliance. If you need to create a new VFC for the original client, you must wait for this information to be purged. If it has not been purged, the original client will not display in the list of clients for which you can create a VFC (see step 3 of To create a virtual failover client).

To delete a virtual failover client

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In the Navigation pane, select the backup system or replication target managing the VFC.

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Select Settings > Instant Recovery > Windows.

3

Click the line of the client you want to modify. You see the Modify Virtual Failover Client window.

4

Click Delete at the bottom of the window. One of the following occurs depending on the location of the VFC:

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VFC residing on a Recovery Series appliance: A box displays asking you to confirm that you want to delete the VFC. Check the box next to I understand that ... Then clickConfirm.

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VFC residing on an external hypervisor: A box displays asking whether you want to delete the VFC from the hypervisor and the appliance or only from the hypervisor. Click Delete from hypervisor and appliance to delete the VFC from both the hypervisor and the appliance. Click Delete from applianceto delete the VFC from the appliance only.