When trying to query VMs to configure replication on vSphere replication, it fails with 503 Service unavailable.

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

When trying to query VMs

Invoke-VrGetLocalVms -pairingId {pairing UUID} -vcenterId {vCenter UUID}

 

to configure replication on vSphere replication, it fails with 503 Service unavailable.

Environment

vSphere Replication 9.x

Cause

The issue is that the request to retrieve all VMs is taking too long, probably because of too many VMs.
In order to optimize things a bit, use suitable_for_replication=true query parameter. It will filter only VMs which are suitable for replication and are not already replicated.

Resolution

Apply the following steps to increase the timeouts of the REST API.

1. In /opt/vmware/dr-rest/lib/dr-rest-api.properties increase the response timeout to 10 minutes (600 000 ms):
   responseTimeout=600000
2. Restart dr-rest service and attempt command again.