Overview of Virtual
Machine Protection States
You can monitor
the status of a virtual machine in a protection group and determine the
operation that is allowed in each state.
State
| Description
|
|---|---|
Placeholder VM Not
Found
| You deleted the
placeholder virtual machine.
The
Restore Placeholder
icon is enabled.
|
Original protected VM not
found
| You deleted the original
production virtual machine after failover and before reprotect.
The
Restore Placeholder
icon is enabled.
|
Datastore
name used by VM is
missing from group | The virtual machine
requires a datastore that is not in the protection group.
Edit the protection
group to include the datastore.
|
Datastore
name used by VM is
protected in a different group | The virtual machine
requires a datastore that is in a different protection group.
Remove the datastore
from the other protection group and edit the current protection group to
include the datastore.
You cannot include a
datastore in two protection groups.
|
Device not found:
device
name | You added an
unreplicated disk or device to a protected virtual machine.
You must edit the
replication of the virtual machine to either include or remove the device from
protection.
|
Mapping missing: Folder
name ; Network
name ; Resource pool
name | Folder, resource pool,
or network mappings are not configured for this VM.
Fix the inventory
mappings for the site or manually configure the virtual machine.
|
Placeholder VM creation error:
error
string from server | Error during placeholder
virtual machine creation.
|
OK
| The protected virtual
machine exists, and both provider and placeholder status are clean.
|
Invalid:
error | The virtual machine is
not valid because the home datastore is not replicated or the virtual machine
has been deleted.
The error string from
the server contains the details.
Remove protection from
the virtual machine manually.
|
Not configured
| You added a new virtual
machine after creating the protection group.
Use Configure All to
configure protection on the virtual machine.
|
Error:
error | Error can be one of the
following:
|
Configuring
protection
| Virtual machine
operation.
|
Removing
protection
| Virtual machine
operation.
|
Restoring
placeholder
| Virtual machine
operation.
|
Loading
| Appears briefly while
the interface is loading until the virtual machine status appears.
|
Mapping Conflict
| Site
Recovery Manager Server reported an inventory conflict.
The resource pool and
folder of the virtual machine are in different data centers.
|
Replication Error
| vSphere
Replication reports an error about the virtual machine.
|
Replication
Warning
| vSphere
Replication reports a warning about the virtual machine.
|