So there's a rare instance where you will be unable to protect a VM and the error it throws out is:
Under Protection Groups > Related Objects > Virtual Machines, you will see the VM coming up as Not Configured.
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And when you try to right click this and say Configure protection, you will notice that the Device Status will come up as Non-replicated
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And if you browse the recovery location and provide the path of the replicated VMDK, you will run into this error.
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In the web client logs, you will see:
[2017-11-28T09:27:50.156-06:00] [ERROR] srm-client-thread-1253 70015389 101315 201173 com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.FakeTaskImpl [DrVmodlFakeTask:srm-fake-task-11:fake-server-guid]: com.vmware.vim.binding.dr.fault.DrRuntimeFault: Task Failed
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.util.ExceptionUtil.newRuntimeFault(ExceptionUtil.java:92)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.util.ExceptionUtil.newRuntimeFault(ExceptionUtil.java:68)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.getSingleError(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:89)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.updateProgress(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:222)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl$3.run(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:431)
at $java.lang.Runnable$$FastClassByCGLIB$$36fc6471.invoke(<generated>)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:149)
at com.vmware.srm.client.topology.impl.osgi.aop.HttpRequestContextAdvice$CallInterceptor.intercept(HttpRequestContextAdvice.java:53)
at com.vmware.srm.client.topology.impl.osgi.aop.HttpRequestContextAdvice$Base$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$b6ab80b4.run(<generated>)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl$4.run(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:442)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.vmware.vim.binding.dr.fault.InternalError: Internal error: class Vmacore::NotFoundException "Object not found"
[context]zKq7AVMEAQAAAHjHWwAUdm13YXJlLWRyAACoLwpkci1yZXBsaWNhdGlvbi5kbGwAAGEbCgASaT8AAy5BAOv/QACT9EABuSMCY29ubmVjdGlvbi1iYXNlLmRsbAABx3QCAccrAgGg8AABPUMBAccrAgGSLgMBdwgDARb3AgHHKwIBuSMCAXcIAwEW9wIBxysC[/context].
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor614.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
The reason, one of them, is the source VMX file has some corrupt or incorrect entries.
So let's have a look at the VM's vmx file.
I will be looking for lines in this file which has a datastore path reference like:
vmx.log.filename = "/vmfs/volumes/58780b1d-045e1100-0efa-0025b5e01a45/Test-1/vmware.log"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1/Test-1-932448b9.vswp"
I have two UUIDs here, 58780b1d-045e1100-0efa-0025b5e01a45 and 59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61
But, when I run:
Internal error: class Vmacore::NotFoundException "Object not found"
And when you try to right click this and say Configure protection, you will notice that the Device Status will come up as Non-replicated
And if you browse the recovery location and provide the path of the replicated VMDK, you will run into this error.
[2017-11-28T09:27:50.156-06:00] [ERROR] srm-client-thread-1253 70015389 101315 201173 com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.FakeTaskImpl [DrVmodlFakeTask:srm-fake-task-11:fake-server-guid]: com.vmware.vim.binding.dr.fault.DrRuntimeFault: Task Failed
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.util.ExceptionUtil.newRuntimeFault(ExceptionUtil.java:92)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.util.ExceptionUtil.newRuntimeFault(ExceptionUtil.java:68)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.getSingleError(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:89)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.updateProgress(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:222)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl$3.run(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:431)
at $java.lang.Runnable$$FastClassByCGLIB$$36fc6471.invoke(<generated>)
at net.sf.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:149)
at com.vmware.srm.client.topology.impl.osgi.aop.HttpRequestContextAdvice$CallInterceptor.intercept(HttpRequestContextAdvice.java:53)
at com.vmware.srm.client.topology.impl.osgi.aop.HttpRequestContextAdvice$Base$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$b6ab80b4.run(<generated>)
at com.vmware.srm.client.infraservice.tasks.MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl$4.run(MultiTaskProgressUpdaterImpl.java:442)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.vmware.vim.binding.dr.fault.InternalError: Internal error: class Vmacore::NotFoundException "Object not found"
[context]zKq7AVMEAQAAAHjHWwAUdm13YXJlLWRyAACoLwpkci1yZXBsaWNhdGlvbi5kbGwAAGEbCgASaT8AAy5BAOv/QACT9EABuSMCY29ubmVjdGlvbi1iYXNlLmRsbAABx3QCAccrAgGg8AABPUMBAccrAgGSLgMBdwgDARb3AgHHKwIBuSMCAXcIAwEW9wIBxysC[/context].
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor614.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
The reason, one of them, is the source VMX file has some corrupt or incorrect entries.
So let's have a look at the VM's vmx file.
I will be looking for lines in this file which has a datastore path reference like:
vmx.log.filename = "/vmfs/volumes/58780b1d-045e1100-0efa-0025b5e01a45/Test-1/vmware.log"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1/Test-1-932448b9.vswp"
I have two UUIDs here, 58780b1d-045e1100-0efa-0025b5e01a45 and 59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61
But, when I run:
[root@Wendy:/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1] esxcfg-scsidevs -m
mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0:3 /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0:3 599ffcb3-d9ece508-7576-000c295e9f61 0 Wendy-Local
mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0:1 /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0:1 59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61 0 VDP-Storage
I just have these two UUIDs which do not match the one's in the VMX file. So these incorrect references are causing this drive status to be non replicated in turn causing issues with VM protection.
You might have one or more such entries in the VMX file.
You might have one or more such entries in the VMX file.
Power off the virtual machine on source and then backup the VMX file and edit it to provide the UUID of the datastore where the VM resides / the appropriate UUID where the respective files should reside. In my case the Test-1 VM runs on VDP-Storage, which is 59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61
So the new VMX entry looks as:
vmx.log.filename = "/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1/vmware.log"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1/Test-1-932448b9.vswp"
Reload the VMX using:
The vm-id can be obtained from
Then Power on the VM and then right click the VM in protection group and configure recovery, this time the hard drive status will be displayed as replicated.
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And that's pretty much it. Usually this is seen, when vmware.log files are configured to a different datastore and that particular datastore is no longer available.
Hope this helps.
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/59a30e4d-647fd9f2-2e66-000c295e9f61/Test-1/Test-1-932448b9.vswp"
Reload the VMX using:
# vim-cmd vmsvc/reload <vm-id>
The vm-id can be obtained from
# vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Then Power on the VM and then right click the VM in protection group and configure recovery, this time the hard drive status will be displayed as replicated.
And that's pretty much it. Usually this is seen, when vmware.log files are configured to a different datastore and that particular datastore is no longer available.
Hope this helps.