Running SRM Planned/Test Failover fails with the error: SRM tests fails with No hosts with hardware version 'x' and datastores "xxxxxxx" which are powered on and not in maintenance mode are available

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Cannot run Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Test Failover.
• Running SRM Test Failover fails with below error.
• When executing an actual Disaster Recovery (DR) activity without first performing a recovery plan test, the recovery plan may fail with the below error.
• SRM test fails with "No hosts with hardware version 'x' and datastores "xxxxxxx" which are powered on and not in maintenance mode are available"

Environment

• VMware Live Site Recovery 9.x

Cause

• The issue occurs if the virtual machines are moved to different protection groups from the original protection groups and the resource pools are no longer valid.
  
  
• The incorrect resource mappings in SRM leads to incomplete recovery.

+ From vmware-dr.log, 

<Step elapsedTime="00:00:00" endTime="####-##-##T##:##:##Z" objectId="protected-vm-514321" startTime="####-##-##T##:##:##Z" status="error">",
-->       "              <Key>RecoveryStepConfigStorageOp.name</Key>",
-->       "              <Name>Configure storage</Name>",
-->       "              <fault>",
-->       "                  <_type>dr.fault.NoCompatibleHostFound</_type>",
-->       "                  <datastoreNames>",
-->       "                      <_length>1</_length>",
-->       "                      <_type>string[]</_type>",
-->       "                      <e id="0">#####-datastore-#####</e>",
-->       "  </datastoreNames>",
-->       "                  <datastores>",
-->       "                      <_length>1</_length>",
-->       "                      <_type>vim.Datastore[]</_type>",
-->       "                      <e id="0">",
-->       "                          <_type>vim.Datastore</_type>",
-->       "                          <moid>datastore-3385</moid>",
-->       "                          <serverGuid/>",
-->       "    </e>",
-->       "  </datastores>",
-->       "                  <hwVersion>14</hwVersion>",
-->       "                  <msg>No hosts with hardware version &apos;14&apos; and datastore(s) &apos;&quot;npcpv2-w7c2-lnx-prod-vsan&quot;&apos; which are powered on and not in maintenance mode are available.</msg>"

+ Recovery fails because of inaccurate placeholder datastore mappings.

Resolution

To resolve this issue:

1. Ensure that there are valid resource pools to fail over to.
2. From the protection group/virtual machines:
   1. Remove the protection from each virtual machine pointing to invalid protection resource pools.
   2. Configure the protection for each virtual machine and point to valid protection resource pools.