Removing the vRA\vCAC Guest Agent

Short intro
This blog post gives you the simple steps to quickly uninstall the vRealize Automation (aka vRA aka vCloud Automation Center aka vCAC) Agent

Longwinded Intro
Whilst studying for my VTSP Management Automation exam, I began to prepare a VM template to use for vRealize Application Services aka vRAS formerly known as vCloud Application Director aka vCAD (wow confusing!).

This involves preparing an OS for use as a vRAS template by installing the Bootstrap Agent files.

According to Abhilash HB's excellent blog article here, I made noob error no 1 - I used a template that already had the vCAC/vRA agent installed.

NB These instructions will work with vRA\vCAC 6.1, folder\service names may be different for different versions

Instructions
Here are the steps to uninstall it;

From a command prompt on the machine which has the agent installed, type;
net stop vcacguestagentservice
then
sc delete vcacguestagentservice

If you do not want to install the vRAS\vCAD agent after this, then you can use the below command to remove the folder;
rmdir c:\vrmguestagent /s /q

Thats it!

vSphere 5.5 Web Client with Oracle Enterprise Linux 7

Just installed Oracle Enterprise Linux on an old laptop for a laugh (yes, I am a true geek!), and realised the vSphere 5.5 web client needs Flash 11.5 installed, and the last version of Flash that Adobe say they will make for Linux is 11.2 :o

I have decided the try the web client through Chrome, which I have tried to install before and found it to be a major headache (getting it installed), but this time round I found an EXCELLENT how-to which got Chrome installed for me in minutes (yes the article is for OEL 6.2, but it worked fine for me on OEL 7).

http://www.redstonecontentsolutions.com/technical-blog/install-google-chrome-on-oracle-enterprise-linux62

I'll report back if I have any issues! Plan B and C are probably using the VCMA, or maybe even trying the C+ client under WINE?