Errors in Recovery and Reprotect in the Recovery Plan during the return of contingency tests.

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

 "VR synchronization failed for VRM group 'Group_Name'. Synchronization monitoring has stopped. Please verify replication traffic connectivity between the source host and the target vSphere Replication Server. Synchronization monitoring will resume when connectivity issues are resolved" error.

Environment

vSphere Live Recovery 8.7

Cause

The issue is caused by ports 443 and 80 being blocked between vCenter and the vSphere Replication appliance, preventing proper communication.

Resolution

Verify if all the required ports for vsphere replication are open.

Steps to verify:

1) SSH into vcenter, vSphere Replication and ESXI 

2) Use curl command for vCenter and vSphere Replication appliance : curl -v telnet://IP_Address:Port

3) Use nc  for ESXI host: nc -z IP_Address  Port

Refer to the article for the required ports Port numbers that must be open for vSphere Replication 8.x