Symptoms:
- When you configure a replication for a VM that was previously replicated with Cloud Director Availability, the action fails with the error:
The operation could not be completed, because the virtual machine has an active replication enabled.
- In /opt/vmware/h4/cloud/log/cloud.log on the target Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance, you see a similar message:
2019-02-22 10:41:23.219 ERROR - [UI_/portal/outgoing-replications/SPB_RepMgr/vm_20076990-0142-44b1-b1f6-5e4f72c6b263_q6_bi] [c4-scheduler-2] com.vmware.h4.jobengine.JobExecution : Task 8de22f51-b550-46e3-bf7a-64bb25004566 (WorkflowInfo{type='start', resourceType='vmReplication', resourceId='C4-c80537bd-da3d-4192-9e41-f9a2d19227c9', isPrivate=false, resourceName='null'}) has failed
com.vmware.h4.replicator.api.exceptions.ReplicationAlreadyEnabledException: The operation could not be completed, because the virtual machine has an active replication enabled.
- In /opt/vmware/h4/manager/log/manager.log on the target Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance, you see a similar message:
2019-02-22 10:41:23.200 ERROR - [UI_/portal/outgoing-replications/SPB_RepMgr/vm_20076990-0142-44b1-b1f6-5e4f72c6b263_q6_bi_al] [health-check-5] com.vmware.h4.jobengine.JobExecution : Task 92dff365-de26-40bd-9f2a-08fa67eddb17 (WorkflowInfo{type='start', resourceType='replication', resourceId='H4-829379bc-6db9-44ee-85d8-310fc1353103', isPrivate=false, resourceName='null'}) has failed
com.vmware.h4.replicator.api.exceptions.ReplicationAlreadyEnabledException: The operation could not be completed, because the virtual machine has an active replication enabled.
- In /opt/vmware/h4/replicator/log/replicator.log on the source Replicator Appliance, you see a similar message:
2019-02-22 10:41:23.132 ERROR - [UI_/portal/outgoing-replications/SPB_RepMgr/vm_20076990-0142-44b1-b1f6-5e4f72c6b263_q6_bi_al_Zf] [pc-task-monitor-4] c.v.h.r.monitoring.JobTaskUpdateHandler : Task 918a8f3f-3624-45a7-bbde-e4e6347f3be7 has failed.
com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.fault.ReplicationVmConfigFault: The vSphere Replication configuration of the virtual machine has an issue: Replication is already enabled.
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.