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Uninstalling Flash Accel from virtual machines
You can uninstall the Flash Accel Guest OS Agent from the Windows virtual machines on which it is installed if you no longer need the software.
Before you begin 
You must disable caching on all virtual disks and on the virtual machine, and unallocate the cache space from the virtual machine, before uninstalling the software.
About this task 
Uninstalling the software removes the software from the virtual machine, and it also returns the portion of the SSD it was using to the ESXi server so that other virtual machines can use the SSD resource. The virtual machine will be restarted at the end of this step, so make sure this is an acceptable time to take the virtual machine offline.
Note: You can also remove the Flash Accel Guest OS Agent directly from the Windows Add/Remove dialog, but the cache must be disabled and unallocated first.
Steps 
1.
From the Home page of the Flash Accel Management Console, select the wrench icon for each enabled virtual machine disk on the virtual machine and select Cache State > Disable.
A message is displayed in the message area when the cache is disabled.
2.
A message is displayed in the message area when the cache is disabled.
Note: See "Disabling caching" if you need to disable the cache state for many disks and virtual machines.
3.
Select the wrench icon for the virtual machine and select Cache Space > Unallocate to return the cache space from this virtual machine to the flash device on the host.
The Unallocate dialog box appears.
4.
Click Unallocate if you are sure you want to unallocate the cache from the VM.
5.
Select the wrench icon for the VM on which you want to uninstall Flash Accel software and select Software > Uninstall.
The Uninstall VM dialog box appears.
6.
Click Uninstall to uninstall the Flash Accel software on the selected virtual machine.
The progress of the uninstallation operation appears in the Uninstall VM dialog box. When it completes a message displays at the top of the FMC Home page.
Result 
The Flash Accel Guest OS Agent is removed from the virtual machine and the virtual machine is restarted.
Parent Topic: Uninstalling Flash Accel components


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