Fault occurred while performing health check. Details: 'Connect: Connection timed out'.

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• While configuring Enhanced replication for a VM during replication mapping tests this error might occur.

Error: Fault occurred while performing health check. Details: 'Connect: Connection timed out'

• Configuring VM using Legacy replication method works.
• All required ports from DC ESXi host to DR ESXi host is enabled for enhanced replication to work.
• Enhanced replication mapping tests will fail with Connection error between few DC and DR hosts.

 

• Virtual machine with enhanced replication may report below error.
  Error: No Connection to VR Server: Not responding

 

Environment

VMware vSphere Replication 9.x

 

Cause

vSphere replication traffic is not tagged on the vmkernel interface of the ESXi hosts.

Resolution

• Enable vSphere Replication traffic on the correct VMkernel interface on all the ESXi hosts.
• Steps to enable vSphere replication traffic on the VMkernel interface of the ESXi host. In the vCenter Inventory, click the vcenter_name >> Navigate to the Datacenter >> Cluster >> ESXi host >> Configure >> VMkernel adapters >> vmk (typically used for replication) 

 

Workaround:

• Migrate the VM to a host with vSphere replication traffic tagged.