Reprotect failed with "A recovered disk was not found for replicated disk with UUID xx-xx-xx-xx-xx"

Products

• VMware Live Recovery
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When configuring replication with a seed disk which has a different UUID from the source disk, reprotect failed with "A recovered disk was not found for replicated disk with UUID xx-xx-xx-xx-xx"

Environment

VMware vSphere Replication 8.x

Resolution

The issue is resolved in vSphere Replication 8.3.1.1.

Workaround:

1. Login to the primary vCenter mob to check the disk's UUID.

For example, go to https://10.186.102.28/mob/?moid=vm-19&doPath=config.hardware and click virtual disk.
 

2. Click backing.

 

3. Find the UUID for the related source disk.

 

 

4. Using secondary VC mob to set the seed disk UUID to be the same as the source disk uuid:
   https://secondary.vc.address/mob/?moid=virtualDiskManager&method=setVirtualDiskUuid
   For example,
       name = [secondary-esx-2]replicas/TestVm-1/disk_2001.vmdk
       datacenter = <datacenter type="Datacenter">datacenter-3</datacenter>
       UUID = 60 00 C2 9c ## ## ## ##-## ## ## ## 16 39 8f 53

Note: VirtualDiskManager.setVirtualDiskUuid API accepts another UUID format.

5. Performed vm.reload() on the recoveredVM using https://secondary.vc.address/mob/?moid=<VM_ID>&method=reload.