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Storage Replication Adapter (SRA): Unable to create a temporary file

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Applies to

  • Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) 9.x
  • SRM windows server

Issue

During discovery operation when it tries to create a temp file on the SRM Windows machine it fails with the below error:

SRA command 'prepareFailover' failed. Unable to create a temporary file.

Vmware SRM log:

2022-04-13T22:27:42.427+10:00 error vmware-dr[06256] [SRM@6876 sub=SraCommand opID=64a433fb] Temp File creation failed (Giving up after 5 attempts).

2022-04-13T22:27:42.427+10:00 error vmware-dr[06256] [SRM@6876 sub=SraCommand opID=64a433fb] Failed to execute discoverArrays command: Unable to create temp output file under 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM-2768016'

2022-04-13T22:27:42.427+10:00 error vmware-dr[06256] [SRM@6876 sub=Storage opID=64a433fb] Dr::Storage::VmomiLayer::ArrayManagerImpl::ExecuteSraCommand: Unable to execute SRA command discoverArrays, array manager MoRef=[dr.storage.ArrayManager:storage-arraymanager-4620749]

--> (dr.storage.fault.CommandFailed)

 

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