Remove WAN Accelerator After Trial

[bgijohn]

I did a 30 day trial of Enterprise Plus with a WAN accelerator. After the trial ended I went to remove the machine that I tested WAN acceleration to. I could not because I get the error that it is used by a WAN accelerator. I cannot access WAN acceleration because I am not licensed for it. Thus, I cannot remove the server. Any ideas?

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you have any backup copy jobs using WAN accelerators? Did you try to switch them to direct mode and then try to delete accelerators?

[bgijohn]

I do not have any backup jobs using WAN acceleration.

To clarify, I was able to create a WAN accelerator to a test machine during the trial. Now that the trial has ended the WAN accelerator still exists, I just cannot access the GUI to remove it.

[Vitaliy S.]

Got it, in this case try to execute this PowerShell script:

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add-pssnapin veeampssnapin
$wan = Get-VBRWANAccelerator -Name "name_of_the_accelerator_machine"
Remove-VBRWANAccelerator -Accelerator $wan 

[bgijohn]

Licensing error. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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PS C:\Users\[i]username[/i]> add-pssnapin veeampssnapin
PS C:\Users\[i]username[/i]> $wan = Get-VBRWANAccelerator -Name "[i]computername[/i]"
Get-VBRWANAccelerator : This functionality is available in the Enterprise Plus edition only.
At line:1 char:8
+ $wan = Get-VBRWANAccelerator -Name "[i]computername[/i]"
+        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VBRWANAccelerator], LicenseException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ComponentModel.LicenseException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Command.GetVBRWANAccelerator

[Vitaliy S.]

OK, seems like you need to install a trial key back and then remove the accelerator. I have passed this information to our QA team.

[bgijohn]

I grabbed another trial key and temporarily installed. It allowed me to remove it. Thanks!

[Tnjus]

I know this is an old thread, but I have a similar situation on 9.5 U4. In our case, we downgraded from Plus to Enterprise since we no longer needed Wan Acceleration. There was an old server configured as a Wan Accelerator that we forgot to remove prior to the downgrade. Is installing the temp key the only way around this still? Seems like you should be able to delete/remove without having the license to "use".

Thanks.

[foggy]

Hi Thomas, yes, this is still the process - you either need to use the script mentioned above or the temporary trial key. Thanks!