Not able to replicate the VM with 3rd party replication provider as error shows it is stuck with previous provider (vSphere Replication ).
Virtual Machines show the messages
No Connection to VR Server: Not Responding
System has paused replication: Disk added to VM
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.x
vSphere Replication 8.x
vSphere Replication 9.x
This issue occurs because the proper procedure was not followed for uninstalling vSphere Replication per doc : Uninstall vSphere Replication
Just deleting vSphere Replication appliance (without unregistering) will leave the configuration of the replicated VM unchanged, which caused the error messages shown in vSphere client.
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState 55
vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.disable 55
[root@VMhost:~] vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState 55
Retrieve VM running replication state:
(vim.fault.ReplicationVmFault) {
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
reason = “notConfigured”,
state = <unset>,
instanceId = <unset>,
vm = ‘vim.VirtualMachine:55’,
msg = “Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:1fwaf548, TCP:localhost:80>]: getGroupState
vSphere Replication operation error: Virtual machine is not configured for replication.”
}
==
+scsi0:0.hbr_filter.rdid = "RDID-#####-####-#####"
+scsi0:0.hbr_filter.persistent = "hbr-persistent-state-RDID-#####-####-#####
.psf"
+scsi0:0.filters = "hbr_filter"
+hbr_filter.configGen = "2"
+hbr_filter.gid = "GID-#####-####-#####
"
+hbr_filter.destination = "127.0.0.1"
+hbr_filter.port = "32032"
+hbr_filter.rpo = "1440"
+hbr_filter.quiesce = "TRUE"
+hbr_filter.netCompression = "TRUE"
+hbr_filter.netEncryption = "TRUE"
+hbr_filter.netEncryption.destination = "#.#.#.#.#"
+hbr_filter.netEncryption.port = "32032"
+hbr_filter.netEncryption.thumbprint = "#######"
+hbr_filter.dataSetsReplication = "TRUE"