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title: "Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs" # Title of the blog post. title: "Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs" # Title of the blog post.
date: 2022-07-24 date: 2022-07-24
# lastmod: 2022-07-23T16:25:05-05:00 # Date when last modified lastmod: 2022-07-25 # Date when last modified
description: "How to remove and (optionally) recreate the vSphere Clustering Services VMs" # Description used for search engine. description: "How to remove and (optionally) recreate the vSphere Clustering Services VMs" # Description used for search engine.
featured: false # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar. featured: false # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar.
draft: false # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered. draft: false # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered.
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Fortunately there's a somewhat-hidden way to disable (and re-enable) vCLS on a per-cluster basis, and it's easy to do once you know the trick. This can help if you want to permanently disable vCLS (like in a lab environment) or if you just need to turn it off and on again[^off-and-on] to clean up and redeploy uncooperative agent VMs. Fortunately there's a somewhat-hidden way to disable (and re-enable) vCLS on a per-cluster basis, and it's easy to do once you know the trick. This can help if you want to permanently disable vCLS (like in a lab environment) or if you just need to turn it off and on again[^off-and-on] to clean up and redeploy uncooperative agent VMs.
{{% notice warning "Proceed at your own risk" %}}
Disabling vCLS will break DRS, and could have other unintended side effects. Don't do this in prod if you can avoid it.
{{% /notice %}}
[^off-and-on]: ![](off-and-on.gif) [^off-and-on]: ![](off-and-on.gif)
### Find the cluster's domain ID ### Find the cluster's domain ID