Uninstalling SnapCenter

If you no longer wish to use SnapCenter to manage data protection jobs, you can uninstall SnapCenter using the Programs and Features Control Panel on your SnapCenter Server host system. Uninstalling SnapCenter removes the Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, the Application Request Routing server farm, and, if appropriate, the SnapCenter database.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have at least 2 GB of free space on the drive where the SnapCenter Server is installed.
Ensure that the domain in which the SnapCenter Server is installed is not removed.
If you remove the domain where the SnapCenter Server was installed and then try to uinstall, the operation fails.

Steps

On your SnapCenter host system, navigate to the Control Panel.
Make sure you are in the Category view.
Under Programs, click Uninstall a program.
Programs and Features opens.
Select NetApp SnapCenter Server and click Uninstall.
Select to remove the NLB node from the NLB cluster and the Application Request Routing server farm.
If you do not want to use this SnapCenter repository with a newly installed SnapCenter Server, select to remove the SnapCenter repository. In NLB configurations, you can only delete the repository from the last NLB node.

After you finish

Removing the NLB node from an NLB cluster requires that you restart your SnapCenter Server host system. If you do not restart the host system, you might experience a failure if you attempt to reinstall SnapCenter Server.
Some non-NetApp components installed by SnapCenter are not removed during uninstallation, including SnapCenter repository server and .NET Framework. If you want to remove these components, you must uninstall them manually.
If you want to uninstall SQL Server Express (if you are uninstalling an earlier version of SnapCenter), first delete the SnapCenter repository, then uninstall SQL Express by selecting Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (64-bit).