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Article ID: 309559
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Environment
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0.x
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.1.x
Cause
This error indicates that vCenter Server has an issue registering or powering on a virtual machine in an ESXi/ESX host on the Recovery Site.
Resolution
If you experience this issue, ensure that you:
- Do not click the Complete link when running an SRM TestFailover. Instead, attempt a manual registration and power-on the virtual machine from vCenter Server on the Recovery Site and monitor vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX logging. For more information about manual registration, see Registering or adding a virtual machine to the inventory (1006160).
- Check the virtual machine .vmx configuration file on the Protected site for attached peripheral devices such as USB controllers, CD-ROM devices or Media Libraries. Ensure that all relevant devices are available on the Recovery Site.
- Check that the virtual machine resources CPUs, devices, and RDMs are sufficiently available on the Recovery site. For more information, see Investigating ESX/ESXi virtual machine resources (1003745).
- Check the ESXi/ESX host licensing. Apart from the SRM license requirement, the hosts themselves must be licensed to support the individual virtual machine configurations.
For example, an SRM protected virtual machine with 8 CPUs requires an ESXi/ESX Enterprise Plus license. Therefore, the Recovery site ESXi/ESX host must contain the same license to support the same virtual machine configuration.
For more information licensing model, see: -