I wanted to expand a virtual disk attached to a guest and needed to remove replication before doing this. When I removed the replication I got an error and not my replication for that VM are in an inconsistent state. When I removed the replication I got two tasks. The first, "Unconfigure virtual machine..." completed okay. The second, "Disable replication of virtual..." failed with the error "A general system error occurred: The system returned an error. Communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted."
The VM now seems to be in an inconsistent replication state. The replicated VM still exists on the target machine but does not show up on the list of VM's being replicated. Attempts to increase the disk size of the VM on the source host result in the error, "vSphere Replication does not support changing the length of a replicated disk" which makes me think that something didn't get unconfigured when the original error occurred. To further confirm my suspicion, when I attempt to configure replication for the VM I get all the way to "Finish" and then get the error "Configuring Virtual Machine for Replication... failed. The vSphere Replication configuration of the virtual machine has an issue: Replication is already enabled."
I did run a vim-vmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState from the console on the source host and got the following:
This was not how I planned my Friday, has anyone seen anything like this?
Thanks for any assistance
Raymond