Error Message

rhs.exe - System Error : The program can't start because vxvea3.dll is missing from your computer.

For Windows Server 2012

Open Powershell on the impacted server, as an administrator, and run the following commands:

You should not get any output on the monitor. You can confirm that this was effective by right-clicking one of your roles and selecting Add Resource > More Resources. The Volume Manager Disk Resource, and the Volume Manager Shared Volume, options should no longer be present.

For Server 2008

Open an Administrative command prompt and run the following commands:
The following output will be displayed:

After uninstalling SFW, the VMDg resource types must be unregistered from the cluster.

Before performing these operations, ensure all VMDg resources have been removed from the cluster. Otherwise, the following error will be encountered:

After Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) is uninstalled, persistent errors are reported by the Windows Resource Hosting Subsystem (rhs.exe). The errors indicate that the vxvea3.dll file is missing.

After uninstalling SFW, if the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg) resources are not unregistered from the cluster rhs.exe, these errors will appear. To correct this, the VMDg resource types need to be removed form the cluster, and unregistered.