Unable to Protect VM with Snapshots in VMware SRM
Setup VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 3a SRM 5.5.1 ESXi 5.1 Update3 Issue When trying to Configure Protection for the VM it goes till 99% after getting an error. The error details Internal error: Received unexpected exception from multi-site operation. Analysis We tried usual steps such as Restarting SRM Service/Server Ensure…
VMware SRM Recompute Device Groups Occurence
Setup VMware vCenter 6.0 Update 1b SRM 6.1 NetApp SRA 2.1P1 Issue We have upgraded DR vCenter Server to 6.0 U1b and DR SRM Server to 6.1. After upgrading and configuring SRM we observed that Production vCenter keeps generating Re-compute Device Groups tasks every 30 seconds Analysis The re-computes are…
VMware SRM Fault
Setup VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 3 SRM 5..8.1 Issue Protection Group summary page shows 25 VMs as not configured. When checked in the in protection group, VMs with warnings are not getting displayed. Analysis Upon troubleshooting with VMware Support, we got notified that they suspect this might be a defect…
VMware SRM Test Failover/ Planned Migration Fails with Error – There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation (2145522)
Symptoms · Running a Test Recovery from Protected and/or Recovery site fails · Running a Plan Migration from Protected and/or Recovery site fails · Even after adding the license to the vCenter Server, you see error: There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation. Cause This issue occurs when a license…
Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities
Microsoft recently released a “Convenience Update” patch for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This update has incompatibility issues with virtual machines running on the VMware vSphere virtualization platform. This incompatibility is confined to one specific configuration scenario – It impacts VMs that use the VMware VMXNet3 virtual…