Unable to remove the Guest Introspection service

In my lab environment I had problems with the Guest Introspection service. The installation was failed. Trying to remove the Guest Introspection service failed every time in the Service Deployments tab.

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After performing the following steps, I was able to remove the Guest Introspection service :

  • Put the ESXi host in maintenance mode
  • Drag the ESXi host outside the cluster
  • Drag the ESXi host back to the cluster
  • Reboot the host
  • Exit maintenance mode
  • Click on resolve in the Service Deployments section

After performing these steps the Guest Introspection service is removed from the host.