Unable to configure VMs in Protection Group, Error - "Operation Error: Subscription is not available or has expired. Unable to protect VM '#########' with IO filter 'vmwarelwd' for device with key '2000' as this action requires active subscription."

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

• On configuring VM for protection below error appears
  
  

Error - Operation Failed

Operation Error: Subscription is not available or has expired. Unable to protect VM '#########' with IO filter 'vmwarelwd' for device with key '2000' as this action requires active subscription.

vLR license is applied to the asset correctly.

Environment

VMware Live Recovery

Resolution

Follow the steps in Putting ESXi into maintenance mode, vMotioning, or reconfiguring a VM fails, or snapshots are slow, due to the vmwarelwd ioFilter being attached to disable the vmwarelwd filter on the VM.