Symptoms:
- When configuring a new replication in vCloud Availability, the replication disappears from the list of configured replications and you see a red banner with the error:
Unable to create replica disk(s).
- In /var/log/vmware/hbrsrv.log on the Replicator, you see entries similar to:
2019-11-14T12:59:30.187Z error hbrsrv[00888] [Originator@6876 sub=Main opID=ui-proxy_########-####-####-####-########000_00_00_00_00] HbrError for (reason: "invalidPath"), (spec: {diskIdent = {id = "H4D-########-######00-0f74-9260-02a6-d146526b605f", location = {datastoreUUID = "########-####-########1100", pathname = "_H4-########-####-####-####-########bad6/########-####-####-####-########605f_########-####-####-####-########9249"}}, useNativeSnapshots = false, storagePolicy = <unset>}) stack: 2019-11-14T12:59:30.187Z error hbrsrv[00888] [Originator@6876 sub=Main opID=ui-proxy_########-####-####-####-########000_00_00_00_00] [0] Disk path basename is not of the form '*.vmdk'!2019-11-14T12:59:30.187Z error hbrsrv[00888] [Originator@6876 sub=Main opID=ui-proxy_########-####-####-####-########000_00_00_00_00] [1] Code set to: A provided replicated disk spec is invalid.
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.