Symptoms:
- SRM planned migration might fail with few virtual machines reporting the error:
Unable to access file ds:///vmfs/volumes/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/
- The migration has shut down the VM on the production site and currently is in process of creating a placeholder VM under the same production site.
- In the VMware-DR.log file, you see entries similar to:
03:00 [92668 verbose 'LocalVcServer-PCM' opID=279bbc83 remoteTask=task-488793] [PCM] Recording new filter 'sessionId[522b6]52cd053a-2d2e-ed16-580c-b972dda651df' for token '509' and connection version '1'
2017-10-26T20:23:38.343+03:00 [92668 error 'RemoteTaskMonitor' remoteTask=task-488793] Dr::Internal::RemoteTaskBase::HandleTaskError: The remote task failed, error=
--> (vim.fault.CannotAccessFile) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
--> key = "com.vmware.vim.vpx.file.creation.Error",
--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> key = "filename",
--> value = "/vmfs/volumes/54465721-########-####-##########39"
--> }
--> ],
--> message = "/vmfs/volumes/54465721-########-####-##########39 could not be created"
--> }
--> ],
--> file = "ds:///vmfs/volumes/54465721-########-####-##########39/"
--> msg = "Unable to access file ds:///vmfs/volumes/54465721-########-####-##########39/"
--> }
03:00 [92668 error 'RemoteTaskMonitor' remoteTask=task-488793] Dr::Internal::RemoteTask<class Dr::TypedMoRef<class Vim::VirtualMachine,void> const >::Fail: The remote task failed
- Recovery plan report error similar to:
Prepare VMs for migration,Unable to access file ds:///vmfs/volumes/54465721-########-####-##########39/