Recovery Plan Times Out
While Waiting for VMware Tools
Running a recovery
plan fails with a timeout error while waiting for VMware Tools to start.
Recovery operations fail at the
Shutdown VMs step or Waiting for VMware Tools step of a recovery plan.
Site
Recovery Manager
uses VMware
Tools heartbeat to discover when recovered virtual machines are running on the
recovery site. Recovery operations require that you install VMware Tools on the
protected virtual machines. Recovery fails if you did not install VMware Tools
on the protected virtual machines, or if you did not configure
Site
Recovery Manager
to start
without waiting for VMware Tools to start.
Install VMware Tools on the
protected virtual machines. If you do not or cannot install VMware Tools on the
protected virtual machines, you must configure
Site
Recovery Manager
not to wait
for VMware Tools to start in the recovered virtual machines and to skip the
guest operating system shutdown step. See
Change Recovery Settings.