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SRA test failover fails with error: Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to present device to ESX host

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) 9.x
  • NetApp Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) 9.x
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Issue

SRM test failover is failing with the error:

Error - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to present device to ESX host.

During the investigation, it was found that the SRA receives inputs from SRM and creates an igroup named `testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033` with all the initiators. However, it fails when adding the initiator `10:00:2a:e9:e8:80:02:8e`.

SRA:

2025-07-24T04:26:52,585Z (DEBUG) - No matching igroup found. Creating testfailover_igroup_domain-c20332025-07-24T04:26:52,770Z (DEBUG) - Unable to online/map LUN. Failed with exception Caused by: AbstractController: id: 8acbcc79-384a-11e6-bb0f-90e2bac61d78name: SVM_Name ip address: 10.x.x.x failed to add initiator 10:00:2A:E9:E8:80:02:8E to the igroup testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033, specifically com.netapp.offtap3.ontap.ApiFailedException: Initiator group "testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033" already contains initiator "10:00:2a:e9:e8:80:02:8e". (errno=9008).  Caused by: Initiator group "testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033" already contains initiator "10:00:2a:e9:e8:80:02:8e". (errno=9008)

2025-07-24T04:26:52,770Z (DEBUG) - Unable to online/map LUN. Failed with exception Caused by: AbstractController: id: 8acbcc79-384a-11e6-bb0f-90e2bac61d78name: SVM_Name ip address: 10.x.x.x failed to add initiator 10:00:2A:E9:E8:80:02:8E to the igroup testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033, specifically com.netapp.offtap3.ontap.ApiFailedException: Initiator group "testfailover_igroup_domain-c2033" already contains initiator "10:00:2a:e9:e8:80:02:8e". (errno=9008)

2025-07-24T04:26:52,777Z (DEBUG) - Failed to present SAN device to ESX host; no matching igroup found in request

 

 

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