Horizon Instant Clone Maintenance

So I was cleaning up some of the pools I created in my lab today and noticed I had a few cp-templates, cp-replica left over. I removed all the pools and had 4 VM’s remaining and protected i.e. from vCenter I was not able to delete them. With no other pools left, I knew these are leftovers.

So after a quick google, I come to this KB article Instant-Clone Maintenance Utilities

So I hop over the first Connection server opened a command prompt

Changed to the following location

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\tools\bin

and ran the command IcUnprotect.cmd -vc lab-vdi-vc01.fqdn -uid administrator@vsphere.local

Then in vCenter I was able to delete the VM’s

Bobs you uncle, they are all gone!