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The best practice for uninstalling individual plug-ins or plug-in packages is to either use the
SnapCenter GUI or use the
Uninstall-SmHostPackage cmdlet on the
SnapCenter Server host command-line interface. These procedures help the
SnapCenter Server to stay up to date with any changes. However, you might have a rare need to uninstall plug-ins locally. For example, you might have run an uninstall job from the
SnapCenter Server but the job failed, or you uninstalled your
SnapCenter Server and orphan plug-ins remain on a host.
Attention: Uninstalling a plug-in package locally on a host does not delete data associated with the host; for example scheduled jobs and backup metadata.
Attention: Do not attempt to uninstall the SnapCenter Plug-ins Package for Windows locally from the Control Panel. You must use the SnapCenter GUI to ensure that both SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft Windows and SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere are properly uninstalled.