VLCR HFS snapshot fails on the VM during vMotion

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

• Below alert is seen for random VM in the protection group 

Severity: ERROR

Description: Protected group 'example protection group' status transitioned from GOOD to CRITICAL: The last snapshot of protection group 'example protection group' includes only 8 out of 9 VMs.

• The VM for which the replication failed was being migrated either manually or by DRS. 
• The events for the VM shows the migration task start before LWD based protection run. 
• drc manager log shows below exception for the replication task 
  
  protect returned ERROR for vm vm-12051. fault type: com.vmware.vsan.sdk.DpFaultMigrationInProgress, msg: dp.vpx.fault.MigrationInProgress.summary, status: ERROR.

Environment

VMware Live Cyber Recovery 7.27.x 

Cause

HFS/VADP based replications are not supported during vMotion. The replication will be cancelled after the first try with exception dp.vpx.fault.MigrationInProgress.

Resolution

Please refer Caveats for high frequency snapshots for limitations of High Frequency Snapshots.

There is enhancement made in the major release 7.28 to support this use case.