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SRM Protection group creation failed:Cannot protect datastore which span 2 consistency groups

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Applies to

  • Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
  • Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Issue

  • While creating an SRM Protection Group reports the below error:

Operation Error: Cannot protect datastore 'Datastore1' which spans 2 different consistency groups and standalone devices:"//VMWare/Datastore1/Datastore1","//VMWare/Datastore1/Datastore2".
 

  • Array Pair discovery discovers both Datastore 1 and 2 as local, refer to the below screenshot.
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SRM reports the below error:

2022-12-20T15:21:29.764+08:00 error vmware-dr[01349] [SRM@6876 sub=StorageProvider opID=abcdf99f-944d-4352-abd4-0123f3d2782d5-discoverDevices:02e2:d799] Cannot create recovery spec for VMFS datastore 'Datastore1:datastore-5432' because it spans multiple storage devices which are not part of a single consistency group: ["//VMWare/Datastore1/Datastore1", "//VMWare/Datastore2/Datastore2"] []
2022-12-20T15:21:29.764+08:00 verbose vmware-dr[01349] [SRM@6876 sub=StorageProvider opID=abcdf99f-944d-4352-abd4-0123f3d2782d5-discoverDevices:02e2:d799] Posting event to VC on object 'datastore-5422': (dr.eventEx.SPDsSpansConsistGroupsEvent) {
        -->    datastore = 'vim.Datastore:10eee299-8d1a-4283-84a0-8142047dc3b6:datastore-5422',
        -->   datastoreName = "Datastore1",
        -->    cgId = "//VMWare/Datastore1/Datastore1",
        -->    cgName = "//VMWare/Datastore1/Datastore1",
        -->    otherCgId = "//VMWare/Datastore2/Datastore2",
        -->    otherCgName = "//VMWare/Datastore2/Datastore2"

 

 

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