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lasanthaj
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Recover replicated VM from ISCSI SAN single vcenter

Hi All ,

we have following setup.

  1 Vcenter

  3  Standalone ESXI hosts

  1 ISCSI SAN

we install vsphere replication appliance one esxi host and configure replicate VM to ISCSI SAN. all 3 ESXI host connected to ISCSI datastore. replication working fine . when try to recover VM to diffrent host than source host its give following error

"  Datastore 'ISCSI datastore ' is not accessible in read-write mode from host '.  but possible to recover VM's to source host. we want recover VM to diffrent host than original host . can access iscsi datastore from all ESXI hosts

please note : source host mean host currently run the VM

what is this issue ?

thanks

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Hyusein
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Hi,

Seems like the host to which you are trying to recover does not have read-write access to the datastore.

"can access iscsi datastore from all ESXI hosts"

Do you mean read-write access?

Thanks,

Hyusein

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lasanthaj
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hi Hyusein

yes . we can access ISCSI datastore with read wirte access. we can create vm on ISCSI datastore. vsphere replication limit to recover vm  to only source host ?

thanks.

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Hyusein
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Hi,

I guess this may be caused from stale datastore info cached in the replication appliance. To prove this you may need to restart the vsphere replication appliance.

Could you try to restart the appliance and try to recover again?

Thanks,

Hyusein

mvalkanov
VMware Employee
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Hi,

If restart of the VR appliance does not help, please check the datastore host mount information via the vCenter Server MOB:

1. Open https://vcenter_ip_address/mob/?moid=ServiceInstance&doPath=content
2. Navigate to rootFolder (Datacenters).
3. Navigate to the datacenter listed in childEntity.
4. Select the target datastore from the datastore list.
5. Review the different DatastoreHostMount links at the host element. Verify that inside mountInfo accessMode is readWrite and accessible is true, for the selected target host (you should see the host address at the DatastoreHostMount element).

Regards,

Martin

lasanthaj
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Thanks Hyusein. after reboot i can recover to every hosts.

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