Uninstalling OpenShift Virtualization using the web console - OpenShift Virtualization installation | OpenShift Virtualization

You can uninstall OpenShift Virtualization by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

Prerequisites

You must have OpenShift Virtualization 2.4 installed.
You must delete all virtual machines, virtual machine instances, and DataVolumes.

Attempting to uninstall OpenShift Virtualization without deleting these objects results in failure.

To uninstall OpenShift Virtualization, you must first delete the OpenShift Virtualization Operator Deployment custom resource.

Prerequisites

Procedure

From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, select openshift-cnv from the Projects list.
Navigate to the Operators → Installed Operators page.
Click OpenShift Virtualization.
Click the OpenShift Virtualization Operator Deployment tab.
Click the Options menu in the row containing the kubevirt-hyperconverged custom resource. In the expanded menu, click Delete HyperConverged Cluster.
Click Delete in the confirmation window.
Navigate to the Workloads → Pods page to verify that only the Operator Pods are running.
Open a terminal window and clean up the remaining resources by running the following command:
```
$ oc delete apiservices v1alpha3.subresources.kubevirt.io -n openshift-cnv
```

To finish uninstalling OpenShift Virtualization, delete the OpenShift Virtualization catalog subscription.

Prerequisites

Procedure

You can now delete the openshift-cnv namespace.

You can delete a namespace by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

If you do not have permissions to delete the namespace, the Delete Namespace option is not available.

Procedure

Navigate to Administration → Namespaces.
Locate the namespace that you want to delete in the list of namespaces.
On the far right side of the namespace listing, select Delete Namespace from the Options menu .
When the Delete Namespace pane opens, enter the name of the namespace that you want to delete in the field.
Click Delete.