Frequent Recomputation of Device Groups & Datastore Groups
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Frequent Recomputation of Device Groups & Datastore Groups

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Article ID: 312722

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Products

VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Impact/Risks:

The only impact will be that until the vCLS is back online, DRS will be offline. These actions must be done during a maintenance window. 

Symptoms:

1. Upgraded vCenter server is shows very frequent recompute device groups / datastore groups (every 20-30 seconds) from SRM.

2. SRM has cascading logging behavior to vCenter and may fail to run test recovery or recovery correctly.

vpxd.log: 

warning vpxd[34575] [Originator@6876 sub=AuthorizeManager opID=########-####-####-####-##########e0-125068-80] Refresh function is not configured.User data can't be added

 

Environment

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x
VMware Live Site Recovery 9.x

Cause

In the logs we can see excessive events occurring related to vCLS can be seen in vpxd logs. This is a known issue and was resolved by multiple customers following the retreat action as per the link.  

Resolution

Retreat vCLS and enable vCLS for all clusters.
Putting a Cluster in Retreat Mode

Put all clusters connected in the vCenter with the issue into retreat mode. Here is a snippet of powercli script

$CluMoref = $Cluster.ExtensionData.MoRef.Value

$vclsname = "config.vcls.clusters.$CluMoRef.enabled"

# add the setting first

New-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VCSA -Name $vclsname -Value $true -Confirm:$false # creates the adv stg, to be disabled as part of a shutdown script

# once created, it can be changed to $false - this effectively removes the vCLS agent VMs (but also affects DRS/HA, so only done during shutdown

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VCSA -Name $vclsname | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $false -Confirm:$false

# then add the reverse to the startup script - this creates the vCLS agent VMs again

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VCSA -Name $vclsname | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $true -Confirm:$false




 

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