Off-boarding from the Clumio VMware Backup Service

Purpose

This document describes the process for off-boarding from the Clumio service for VMware.

Prerequisites

Please ensure that the intent to off-board from Clumio has been made known either to your Clumio Account Team or by reaching out to Clumio Technical Support via support@clumio.com.

The user wishing to conduct the off-boarding must have valid administrative credentials to the following:

1. vCenter administrative access to manage the Clumio Cloud Connector VM.
2. Clumio service credentials used to access the Clumio administrative Web UI.

Resolution

Step 1: Log into your vCenter UI to power-down and delete the Clumio Cloud Connector VM.

Step 2: Contact Clumio Technical Support ( support@clumio.com ) to enable the "Disconnect vCenter" option in Clumio UI

Step 3: Once the option is enabled per confirmation from the support team, Please log into your Clumio UI and Disconnect all vCenters by navigating to the following -

> VMware Cloud > vCenters > All the available vCenters will be displayed

> Click the vCenter IP ADDRESS / FQDN which is to be disconnected

>  Cloud Connector Settings 

> Disconnect vCenter.

After conducting the steps listed above, all VMs previously protected by a Clumio Backup Policy will be unprotected and backups will be expired and deleted from the Clumio Platform.