Removing the Kaspersky Security solution

Virtual machines and user data will no longer be protected if the Kaspersky Security solution is uninstalled.

The procedure to uninstall the Kaspersky Security solution from the virtual infrastructure consists of the following stages:

1. Removing Protection Servers

   To remove the Protection Server component, remove the deployed SVM from the virtual infrastructure.

   You can remove an SVM from the virtual infrastructure in the following ways:

   • Using the SVM Management Wizard, which you can start in the Integration Server Console.
   • Using the Integration Server REST API (see the description of REST API requests).

   You can also remove SVMs manually using virtual infrastructure tools.

   If you completely uninstall the Kaspersky Security solution, you need to remove all SVMs. If necessary, you can remove only some of the SVMs.

   If you have removed all SVMs from any virtual infrastructure, it is recommended to remove the connection settings for this virtual infrastructure from the following lists:

   • from the list of virtual infrastructures to which the Integration Server is connected for receiving information about the protected infrastructure
   • from the list of virtual infrastructure objects to which the SVM Management Wizard is connected (see, for example, the "Selecting SVMs to remove" step of the SVM removal procedure)

   After removal of SVM, protected virtual machines that were connected to it, can connect to another SVM that operates in the virtual infrastructure.

2. Removing Light Agent for Linux and Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent

   You need to remove Light Agent for Linux (Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux running in Light Agent mode) and Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent from virtual machines and from virtual machine templates.

3. Removing the Integration Server

   You need to remove the Integration Server and Integration Server Console.

4. Removing Kaspersky Security management plug-ins

After the Protection Server and Light Agent components are removed, the SVMs and virtual machines on which Light Agents were installed are still displayed in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console. After the expiration of the period specified in the Kaspersky Security Center settings (see the Kaspersky Security Center help), information about the SVMs and virtual machines is automatically deleted. You can remove this information from Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console manually after uninstalling the solution.