Unregistering vSphere 6 VCSA from PSC

So I am in the process of doing some vSphere 6 testing and needed to test a redeployment of one of my VCSA’s. The problem is when I went to redeploy it I got the following error.

Decoding the error, I pretty much figured that the object already existed in the SSO database and I needed to delete the existing object. Here is how you do that.

• Log in as root to the appliance shell of the Platform Services Controller appliance with which the vCenter Server Appliance is registered.
• To enable the Bash shell, run the shell.set –enabled true command.
  • Run the shell command to start the Bash shell and log in.
• Run the cmsso-util unregister command to unregister the powered off vCenter Server Appliance.
  • cmsso-util unregister –node-pnid vCenter-FQDNorIP –username administrator@your_domain_name –passwd vCenter-Single-Sign-On-password

The object is now deleted and you can redeploy your VCSA!

See Also

• ESXi 6.0 Update 1a Released
• Unable to SSH to vSphere 6 VCSA or PSC
• Unable to join PSC to Domain via Webclient
• vSphere 6.0 Update 1 Released
• vSphere6 - Unable to use session credentials