SRM (5.5)Test failover fail to power on Multiple machines

[salmanhassan172]

SRM (5.5)Test fail-over fail to power on Multiple machines withSRM Test failover fail to power on Multiple machines with Error - Timed out waiting for VMware Tools after 300 seconds Operation timed out: 900 seconds Timed out waiting for VMware Tools after 300 seconds Operation timed out: 1200 seconds Operation timed out: 1200 seconds ,

Note:Virtual machines have updated VMware tools, ESXi host (Protected and Recovery site) are running on same build version.

[salmanhassan172 · Accepted solution]

Here since the vmware tools wait for the heartbeat from VM (guest OS needs to load and send heartbeat) so avoid this over all you can also uncheck below option , so the vmwaretools wouldn't wait for this and loads successfully .

  Right-click virtual machine in the recovery plan and select Configure.

                                  Go to Startup Action > Power On > Wait for VMware tools.

Or As a recommendation the only option to come out of this is to increase the time out value, however it has been confirmed that this behaviour is only during test fail over , and actual fail over works fine even if doesn't meet any specific parameter .

Steps to Change the time out value :

  Right-click virtual machine in the recovery plan and select Configure.

                                  Go to Startup Action > Power On > Wait for VMware tools.

                                  Change from the default value of 5 minutes to 15 minutes.


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