During a DR test, a site failover was executed. While running VMs at the recovery site, new port groups were added within ESXi and VMs were moved on to the new ESXi standard switch port groups. Afterward, the failback operation was unsuccessful and VMs now show as only placeholders in both sites.
Could this addition of new port groups partway through the process be contributing to the issue?
That sounds more like a known bug that appears when the 'reserve all guest memory' option is selected for the VM. See here:
Virtual machines still have the 'managed by SRM' flag on the protected site after recovery and reprotect.
For a virtual machine that has the Reserve all guest memory(All locked)
option set, after running recovery and reprotect the virtual machine still has the Managed by SRM
flag on the protected site. It should be shown as a normal virtual machine.
Workaround: None.
VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 Release Notes
That should be fixed in newer builds
That sounds more like a known bug that appears when the 'reserve all guest memory' option is selected for the VM. See here:
Virtual machines still have the 'managed by SRM' flag on the protected site after recovery and reprotect.
For a virtual machine that has the Reserve all guest memory(All locked)
option set, after running recovery and reprotect the virtual machine still has the Managed by SRM
flag on the protected site. It should be shown as a normal virtual machine.
Workaround: None.
VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 Release Notes
That should be fixed in newer builds
Ok thanks for the input