Site Recovery Manager Configuration Data import fails - Unable to update protection settings for datastore, datastore not found

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

Importing SRM configuration data fails with the below warnings - 

Create protection groups. Unable to update protection settings for datastore 'Prod-SQL'. Datastore not found.
Create protection groups. Unable to update protection settings for datastore 'DB-Servers'. Datastore not found.

Create protection groups. Unable to create VM protection group: 'Prod-SQL'. A specified parameter was not correct: Empty array of datastores not allowed.
Create protection groups. Unable to create VM protection group: 'DB-Servers'. A specified parameter was not correct: Empty array of datastores not allowed. 

Environment

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x

Cause

SRM applies snap-xx prefix to recovered datastore names. Configuration import cannot detect these datastores until they are changed to their original names. 

 

Resolution

Rename all the snap-xx prefixed datastores back to their original names. 

Change Datastore Name

Additional Information

Renaming a datastore when virtual machines are running on the datastore (1006279) - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1006279

Change Storage Provider Settings

Import the Site Recovery Manager Configuration Data through the User Interface

Impact/Risks:

 

Configuration data import through the user interface fails partially.