Manually Cleaning Up the Exchange Server

Use your Exchange Management Shell to dismount and remove the recovery database from your Exchange server.

Remove the recovery database from the Exchange server

1. Open your Exchange Management Shell.
2. At the prompt, enter Get-MailboxDatabase ¦ Select-Object Name to display the vmPRO-Recovery database name.

   Figure 1: Obtain the Recovery Database Name

   

3. At the prompt, enter Dismount-Database <database name> to display a confirmation prompt.
4. Enter Y to confirm the dismount.

   Figure 2: Dismount the Recovery Database

   

5. At the next prompt, enter Remove-MailboxDatabase-identity <database name> to display a confirmation prompt.
6. Enter Y to confirm the removal.

   Figure 3: Remove the Recovery Database

   

The vmPRO appliance adds one or more disks to your system. It adds more than one disk when the Exchange database and transaction logs are on different disks. When the Exchange database and transaction logs are on the same disk, but in different partitions, the vmPRO appliance mounts two volumes on that disk. You need to dismount each volume on each disk that the vmPRO appliance added.

Remove vmPRO mounted volumes

1. From the Computer Management window, select Storage > Disk Management to display the system's mounted volumes and disk information in the center pane.

   Figure 4: Computer Management – Disk Management Pane

   

2. Right-click the appropriate volumes on each disk mounted by the vmPRO appliance, and then select Change Drive Letter and Paths to display the Change Drive Letter and Paths for New Volume dialog box.

   Note: Volumes mounted by the vmPRO appliance display QuantumExcRecv in the dialog box.

3. Click Remove to dismount the volume.
4. Right-click each volume that you dismounted, and select Offline to take the volumes offline.

 Make sure to both disconnect the vmPRO target and remove the vmPRO target portal from the iSCSI Initiator before the removing the iSCSI target.

Remove the vmPRO target from your iSCSI Initiator

1. Open the iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box.
2. Click the Targets tab, as needed, and select the vmPRO target.

   Figure 5: iSCSI Initiator Properties Dialog Box – TargetsTab

   

3. Click Disconnect to disconnect the vmPRO target from the iSCSI Initiator.
4. Click the Discovery tab, and select the vmPRO target portal.

   Figure 6: iSCSI Initiator Properties Dialog Box – Discovery Tab

   

5. Click Remove to remove the vmPRO target portal from the iSCSI Initiator.

As your final clean up step, you need to access your vmPRO GUI to remove the iSCSI target from your vmPRO appliance.

Remove the iSCSI target from your vmPRO appliance:

1. Display the vmPRO GUI.
2. From the SmartMotion Backup menu, select iSCSI Targets to display the iSCSI Targets dialog box.

   Figure 7: iSCSI Targets Dialog Box

   

3. For each iSCSI target to remove, click to delete it from the vmPRO appliance.
4. Click OK to exit the dialog box.