How to Remove a Managed Computer Role

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When you add a virtual machine host or a library server, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) installs an agent on that computer. A single computer can serve as both a host and a library server. However, VMM installs only one agent; therefore, a managed computer can have multiple roles.

Note

There is another scenario in which VMM temporarily installs an agent and a managed computer can have another role. When you use VMM to convert a physical computer to a virtual machine (P2V), VMM installs a special-purpose agent on the computer to gather information and then removes it before the conversion begins. These managed computers appear in the Managed Computers results pane only briefly.

You can remove a role from a managed computer in the following ways:

  • Remove a host in Host view, or remove a library server in Library view, which also removes the related role from the managed computer. For more information about removing a host, see How to Remove a Host. For more information about removing a library server, see How to Remove a Library Server.
  • Use the Remove action in Administration view to remove a role from a managed computer, which also removes the host or library from VMM.

If you remove all roles from a managed computer, VMM uninstalls the agent from the computer.

Note

VMM removes the agent only, it does not remove Virtual Server from the host. You can still use Virtual Server to run virtual machines that are deployed on a host that you have removed from VMM.

You cannot remove the Library role if resources shared with VMM on the library server are associated with a virtual machine, virtual machine template, or guest operating system profile.

To remove a managed computer role

  1. In Administration view, click Managed Computers.

  2. In the results pane, select a computer for which you want to remove a managed computer role.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Remove.

  4. In the Remove Agent dialog box, select the role or roles you want to remove.

    Note

    The dialog box displays only the roles that the agent is performing on the selected computer. If the computer is performing only one role, the All Roles check box is selected.

  5. Type the credentials of a domain account with administrator privileges on the selected managed computer, and then click OK.

See Also

Other Resources

How to Reassociate a Managed Computer with Another Virtual Machine Manager Server
How to Remove a Host
How to Remove a Library Server
How to Update an Agent on a Managed Computer