3.3. Removing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides the rhevm-cleanup utility to allow quick and easy removal of the data files associated with the installation. Once this has been run you are able to remove the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager packages using yum.

Warning — Potential Data Loss

The rhevm-cleanup command removes all existing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager data. This includes configuration settings, certificates, and database tables.
  1. Run the rhevm-cleanup command on the system that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is installed on. You must be logged in as the root user to run rhevm-cleanup.
  2. The script prompts you to confirm that you wish to remove Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. 
    Would you like to proceed? (yes|no): yes
    Type yes and then press Enter to proceed with removal of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
  3. The rhevm-cleanup command displays a message confirming that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization data files have been removed successfully. 
    RHEV Manager cleanup finished successfully!
    To complete removal of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager you must also use yum to remove the relevant packages. While still logged in as the root user run: 
    # yum remove rhevm* vdsm-bootstrap
Result:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager has been removed from the system successfully.