SRM 8.3 Database Store Not Showing

[dharris9]

I'm running vCenter 6.5 & Site Recovery Manager 8.3.

SRM glitched and I had to blow away the Protection Groups and Recovery Plans and rebuild them. (I did not rebuild the storage replication adapters or the array pairs.)

The Protection Groups are recreated, but 2 of the datastores don't show as available datastore groups to add them to a Protection Group. No errors, no issues, they just don’t appear to be there: Bluedot03 and Bluedot06

They are in the DR-TEST datastore, but not in the list of available datastores

When I try to add them to a new (or existing) Protection Group, they don’t display as available datastore groups:

My Protection Groups are "Datastore Groups (array-based replication)."

I went to Array Pairs, and re-ran "Discover Devices" but that didn't change the results. I also tried "Discover Array Pairs" (even though the arrays weren't the original issue), then re-ran "Discover Devices" which didn't change the results.

I have reconnected the site pair, and restarted SRM services on both servers, neither of these actions helped.

I am open to ideas. Thanks in advance!

[padulka]

It seems to be "locked" by previous PG configuration.

You can add a replicated datastore to one protection groups.

The VMs are disappeared from recover sites?

[dharris9]

Padulka - 

The datastores could be "locked" by the previous Protection Group config.
I was thinking the Placeholder VM may be corrupt? Not sure how to tell, and if so how to fix it.
I don't have a replica of these 2 datastores, let me see if I can find an easy way to test that.

[padulka · Accepted solution]

What you mean by "I don't have a replica of these 2 datastores"?

You must enable replica storage between lun on protected and recovery sites.

Without replica you can't see the storage available on srm.

[dharris9]

Thanks Padulka for the insight.
I didn't have a snapshot of these 2 datastores on my HPE Nimble storage. I created a snapshot job to run tonight (and will replicate to our secondary storage offsite). I logged out and back into SRM, and am able to add these 2 datastores to a Protection Group.