When I try to do a Test run using SRM 5.1, the VM's at recovery site doesn't power ON. Also when I try to manually start the VM's it fails to start.
Below are the error messages which pops out when I check the SRM report.
Error #1 Error - "Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/54607689-9090149b-ac9f-9cb6549655f0/<VMname>.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. " reason.msg
Error #2 Error - reason.msg
Error #3 Error - The object or item referred to could not be found. The object or item referred to could not be found
To add to the confusion there are few VM's(5 out of 26) which power ON without a hitch.
Has anyone come across such issue?
I have approached VMware for this, and according to them Error #1 is because some snapshots on the VM, but when I checked there weren't any.
For Error #2 there is KB from VMware which says the VM's wont power ON as there is some bug related to SRM 5.1, but on my 1st trial the tests ran successfully.(VMware KB: Powering on a virtual machine after running the Recovery Plan in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager fai…)
PS:- SRM is using Array based replication
Storage is VNX 5700
vCenter & ESXi hosts are 5.1