Delete a Site Recovery Services vault

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This article describes how to delete a Recovery Services vault for Site Recovery. To delete a vault used in Azure Backup, see Delete a Backup vault in Azure.

Note

We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. See Install Azure PowerShell to get started. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.

Before you start

Before you can delete a vault you must remove registered servers, and items in the vault. What you need to remove depends on the replication scenarios you've deployed.

Note

Before you delete a Backup protection policy from a vault, you must ensure that

  • the policy doesn't have any associated Backup items.
  • each associated item is associated with some other policy.

Delete a vault-Azure VM to Azure

  1. Follow these instructions to delete all protected VMs.
  2. Then, delete the vault.

Delete a vault-VMware VM to Azure

  1. Follow these instructions to delete all protected VMs.
  2. Follow these steps to delete all replication policies.
  3. Delete references to vCenter using these steps.
  4. Follow these instructions to decommission a configuration server.
  5. Then, delete the vault.

Delete a vault-Hyper-V VM (with VMM) to Azure

  1. Follow these steps to delete Hyper-V VMs managed by System Center VMM.
  2. Disassociate and delete all replication policies. Do this in your vault > Site Recovery Infrastructure > For System Center VMM > Replication Policies.
  3. Follow these steps to unregister a connected VMM server.
  4. Then, delete the vault.

Delete a vault-Hyper-V VM to Azure

  1. Follow these steps to delete all protected VMs.
  2. Disassociate and delete all replication policies. Do this in your vault > Site Recovery Infrastructure > For Hyper-V Sites > Replication Policies.
  3. Follow these instructions to unregister a Hyper-V host.
  4. Delete the Hyper-V site.
  5. Then, delete the vault.

Use PowerShell to force delete the vault

Important

If you're testing the product and aren't concerned about data loss, use the force delete method to rapidly remove the vault and all its dependencies. The PowerShell command deletes all the contents of the vault and is not reversible.

To delete the Site Recovery vault even if there are protected items, use these commands:

Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureChinaCloud

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "XXXXX"

$vault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Name "vaultname"

Remove-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Vault $vault

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