Removing the application

You can remove Kaspersky Security fully or remove just one of the application components (File Threat Protection or Network Threat Protection).

If you want to fully remove Kaspersky Security, you must perform the following actions:

1. Remove both Kaspersky Security components (File Threat Protection and Network Threat Protection) from the virtual infrastructure.
2. Unregister both Kaspersky Security services in VMware NSX Manager.

   Kaspersky Security services can be unregistered in the Integration Server Console. The Integration Server (Kaspersky Service Manager) will also be unregistered in VMware NSX Manager.

3. Remove the Kaspersky Security administration plug-in and Integration Server.
4. If you are using the application in multitenancy mode, you need to also remove the Kaspersky Security administration plug-in for tenants and virtual Administration Servers of Kaspersky Security Center that were created to manage the protection of virtual machines of tenants.

   For details on removing virtual Administration Servers, please refer to the Kaspersky Security Center documentation.

If you want to remove one of the Kaspersky Security components, you must perform the following actions:

1. Remove the Kaspersky Security component (File Threat Protection or Network Threat Protection) from the virtual infrastructure.
2. In VMware NSX Manager, unregister the Kaspersky Security service corresponding to the removed component (Kaspersky File Antimalware Protection or Kaspersky Network Protection).

When an SVM with the File Threat Protection component is removed, the copies of files that were placed in Backup on the SVM are automatically deleted. If the use of network data storage was enabled for an SVM, backup copies of files from this SVM are saved in a separate folder in the network data storage.

After removal of the File Threat Protection and Network Threat Protection components, SVMs continue to be displayed in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console. When the period specified in the Kaspersky Security Center settings elapses (see the Kaspersky Security Center documentation), the SVMs are automatically removed from the Administration Console. You can manually remove SVMs from the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console right after the completion of the application removal procedure.

Until SVMs have been removed from the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console, the events generated by these SVMs are saved in Kaspersky Security Center and displayed in the Kaspersky Security Center reports and event log.

The list of backup copies of files placed in Backup on SVMs with the File Threat Protection component is also saved in Kaspersky Security Center, but no operations can be performed on the backup copies of files.