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SRM Disaster Recovery Fails with error 'Unable to Abort Ongoing Transfers of the Device as Part of Failover'

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV)
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
  • VMware Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
  • Password expired

Issue

  • SRM Disaster Recovery fails with the error:

"Failed to promote replica devices. Failed to promote replica device '//Cluster1/vol1'. SRA command 'failover' failed for device '//Cluster1/vol1'. Unable to abort the ongoing transfers of the device as a part of failover. Check the SRM logs for more details."

  • The OTV console or Maintenance console displays the warning: "Administrator and Database password about to expire. Please change it!"

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