I have the following setup
Site-A
VMware vCenter 5.1 U1
VMware SRM 5.1.1
NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2
FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4
Site-B
VMware vCenter 5.1 U1
VMware SRM 5.1.1
NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2
FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4
I have created a basic Protection group at Site-A containing a single VM with a single vmdk hard disk on a NFS volume.
The NFS volume is snapmirrored to Site-B
I can perform a planned migration to Site-B, reprotect and then another planned migration back to Site-A but then when I attempt to reprotect again so that I am ready for another recovery to Site-B the reprotect fails on the first step Configure Storage to Reverse Direction with "Error - Failed to reverse replication for failed over devices. SRA command 'prepareReverseReplication' failed. Peer array ID provided in the SRM input is incorrect Check the SRM logs to verify correct peer array ID."
I cannot see anything on the Filer logs or in the SRM logs to indicate what the issue is.
This happens for every Protection Group I create so it is not isolated to just this one volume. I have also tried with iSCSI VMFS volumes and get exactly the same results.
If I create a Protection Group at Site-B I can recover to Site-A and cannot reprotect it to fail it back to Site-B.
Initially I though the issue I was seeing is that I could do a failback but couldn't perform a second reprotect because the SnapMirrors were left in the wrong state but now I can see that the issue is that I cannot perform a reprotect from Site-A to Site-B.
I have completely un-installed SRM at both locations, removed the SRM database at both locations and started again but still get the same issue.
I've actually got IBM N series N6040 controllers and am using the IBM branded Data ONTAP and SRA. I have a call open with VMware and IBM but not getting very far.
Has anyone seen this issue before and got a solution?