Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Users Guide for VMWare

• If firewall exceptions have been registered by using the firewall_setup
command, remove them. Make sure that you do not use another Hitachi
Command Suite product to manage the host after removing HDLM.
For details about the firewall_setup command, see the description of
firewall_setup syntax in
Specify Windows Firewall settings on page
3-13 of Settings When Managing HDLM by Using Global Link Manager on
page 3-11.
Removing HDLM
The procedure for removing HDLM is described below. Perform the removal
process on the host and the remote management client.
Removing HDLM from a host
The removal of HDLM from a host is performed using the VMware vSphere
CLI on the remote management client.
1. Log on to Windows on the remote management client as a member of the
Administrators group.
2. Start the VMware vSphere CLI on the remote management client.
3. Execute the following command to check the name of the HDLM offline
bundle file.
esxcli --server=host-name --username=user-name --
password=password software vib list | findstr hdlm
4. Remove HDLM.
Execute the command below. In the -n parameter, specify the offline
bundle file name you identified in step 3.
esxcli --server=host-name --username=user-name --
password=password software vib remove -n offline-bundle-file-name
5. Return the acceptance level of the host to what it was before you installed
HDLM.
Execute the command below. In the --level parameter, specify the
acceptance level value that you noted before installing HDLM.
esxcli --server=host-name --username=user-name --
password=password software acceptance set --level=acceptance-
level
6. Restart the host.
7. Execute the following command to check the list of devices.
Check the management-target devices of HDLM.
esxcli --server=host-name --username=user-name --
password=password storage nmp device list
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Creating an HDLM Environment
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Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (for VMware®) User Guide