HCX DR replication of a VM fails with "Interconnect appliance is not deployed"

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• When completing replication  the following ERROR is generated : "Interconnect appliance is not deployed"

Environment

HCX

Cause

For HCX Disaster Recovery (DR) to be enabled on a VM, it must first be enabled on the computer profile (source and destination).

Resolution

1. From the HCX Manager UI, navigate to Interconnect > Compute Profiles.
2. Edit the required Computer Profile, select the cluster that this VM is residing in to enable the selected VMware HCX services for that cluster 
   
3. Proceed through the steps to the end. Ensure this option is applied on both the source and destination Computer Profiles, then save the changes
4. Resync the Service Mesh
5. If the above steps have failed to resolve the issue please open a support case with Broadcom Support and refer to this KB article.
   For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.