Moving protected VMs from one Cloud filesystem to another in VMware Live Cyber Recovery

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

After moving the protected VMs replicating using High frequency snapshot from one protection group using a Cloud filesystem to another Protection group using a different cloud filesystem, the snapshots may fail with error:

Another vendor has already initiated an operation on the protected entity

Environment

VMware Live Cyber Recovery 7.27.x

Cause

• When a VM is protected to replicate using high frequency snapshot (HFS) a LWD filter is attached to the VM with the vendor ID.
• Moving the VM to another cloud filesystem and protection group requires the HFS to be deactivated on the already protected VM.
• This detaches the existing LWD filter and resume a attached from the new Protection Group. 

Resolution

To resolve this, once the protected VM is moved to the new protection group using a different cloud filesystem, de-active the HFS from CLI for the protection to resume in the new Protection group. 

Refer doc de-active hfs snapshots from VMs

Reference command for a single VM

# drc deactivate-hfs --vcenter-ip <vc-IP> --name-pattern 'VM-name'