Remove NSX-T Edges from a VCF 4.5 environment.

The following blog goes through the process of cleaning up your edges in your VCF environment this has been tested on VCF 4.5

The following items will be removed

• Tier-1 gateway.
• Tier-0 router.
• Edge cluster.
• Edge node VMs.
• Edge uplink segments.
• VLAN-backed transport zones created for the edge deployment.
• vCenter portgroups created for the edge deployment.
• Resource pool, if one was created as part of edge deployment.
• VMware SDDC Manager inventory records of the edge deployment.

Download cleanup tool from the VMware site

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78635

copy cleanup tool to the sddc manager. I am using winscp and copying it to the tmp folder.

SSH to the sddc manager and login as SU

Run the following commands

cd /tmp

chmod -R 777 edge_cluster_cleaner_0.24.tar.gz

gzip -d ./edge_cluster_cleaner_0.24.tar.gz

tar xvf ./edge_cluster_cleaner_0.24.tar

cd cleanup/

./remove_edge_cluster.sh –cluster EC-01 –workload mgmt-domain –user [email protected]

Type in the SSO password

Push Y and enter to continue

Screenshots below from my lab

Done