Delete an Amazon EVS host
You can delete an Amazon EVS host from your environment when the host is no longer needed.
Amazon EVS requires that your environment have a minimum of four hosts.
Amazon EVS does not support environments with fewer than four hosts.
Deleting a host without decommissioning will leave stale data in your vCenter and SDDC Manager that may require additional efforts to clean up.
Ensure that your hosts are decommissioned before deleting hosts in the Amazon EVS console or API.
Always use the Amazon EVS console or API to remove your Amazon EVS hosts.
Deleting hosts from the EC2 console may leave your environment in an inconsistent state.
To delete an Amazon EVS host
Follow these steps to delete an Amazon EVS host.
- SDDC Managuer UI and Amazon EVS console
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Go to SDDC Manager.
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Remove the cluster from SDDC Manager.
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Decommission the host in SDDC Manager.
For more information, see Decommission Hosts in the VMware Cloud Foundation documentation.
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Go to the Amazon EVS console.
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In the navigation pane, choose Environment.
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Select the environment that contains the host to delete.
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Select the Hosts tab.
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Choose Delete host.
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Select the host and choose Delete within the Hosts tab.
Repeat this step for each host that you want to delete.
- SDDC Manager UI and AWS CLI
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Go to SDDC Manager.
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Remove the cluster from SDDC Manager.
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Decommission the host in SDDC Manager.
For more information, see Decommission Hosts in the VMware Cloud Foundation documentation.
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Open a new terminal session.
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Delete the host.
See example command below for reference.
aws evs delete-environment-host \
--environment-id env-abcdefghij \
--host-name my-evs-host.example.com
