vCenter recent tasks pane shows 'Update service activation policy' and 'start service' following the upgrade of the host and vSphere replication appliance.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

VC recent task pane shows a continuous tasks as "Update service activation policy" and "start service" after host and vSphere replication appliance upgrade. 

• Update service activation policy esx.vsphere.local initiated by [email protected]
• Start service esx.vsphere.local initiated by [email protected]

Environment

• VMware Live Site Recovery 9.x
• vCenter Server 8.0.2 or later
• ESXi, 8.0.2 or later
  
  

Cause

• This issue occurs when enhance based replication is enabled on affected host. After enabling enhance based replication, the HMS service on vSphere replication validates host's hbrsrv service status.
•  hbrsrv service on should be in start state.

Resolution

1. To resolve follow as below:
   •  Verify that hbrsrv is running on ESXi host.

• • If it is in stopped state, please start the service.

     2. If the alerts don't stop after starting hbrsrv service, apply the workaround as below;

• • Take snapshot of replication appliance, stop and start the hms service in vSphere replication appliance. Host's hbrsrv service will be started automatically after HMS service restart.
  • "start service" and "update service on activation policy" task should now stop. Please refer to below screenshot.