If you no longer need to replicate a virtual machine from the cloud, you can stop the replication permanently.
When you stop a replication, data is removed from both the source and the target site. Therefore, stopping a replication requires that both the cloud and the local site are online and connected.
If the cloud site is offline, you can force stop the replication task from the local site. When you force stop a replication, you remove the replication task only from the source site. The data on the cloud site remains intact. When the cloud site becomes available, you must delete the replication artifacts from the cloud site manually or contact your cloud provider.
Verify that you have enough privileges to manage replications in the vSphere Web Client. See Roles and Permissions that Disaster Recovery to Cloud Requires.
If both sites are online, Disaster Recovery to Cloud applies the following changes.
If only the local site is online and you selected to perform a force stop operation, the replication task is deleted from the list of incoming replications, and replication data is deleted from the storage.