Recovery Failures; Vmfs Volume Cannot Be Found" Failures - IBM DS8000 User Manual

For environments that are not preconfigured, ensure that the following are checked
or corrected:
v DS8000 user privilege problem, "administrator" required.
v Not enough space in the extent pool.
v No preconfigured flash copies to remote-copy target volumes on the recovery
For environments that are preconfigured, ensure that the following are checked or
corrected:
v Preconfigured FlashCopy were not created to remote-copy target volumes on the
v More than one preconfigured FlashCopy was created.
v The FlashCopy target volume is not mapped to the host.
v The FlashCopy target volumes that are mapped to the host are shown as

Recovery failures

Verify the following items when you encounter problems during recovery
operations.
v The user name and password for both the protected (primary) and the recovery
v Preconfigured/non-preconfigured is switched without rescanning SRA in SRM
For environments that are not preconfigured, ensure that the following items are
checked or corrected:
v DS8000 user privilege problem, "administrator" required.
v No preconfigured flash copies to remote-copy target volumes are on the
v Make sure that you do not use TSE as the Global Mirror target volumes.
v After disaster recovery, you must wait a few minutes and then refresh the
For environments that are preconfigured, ensure that the following are checked or
corrected:
v Preconfigured FlashCopy is not created to remote-copy target volumes on the
v More than one preconfigured FlashCopy was created.
v Make sure that you do not use TSE as Global Mirror target volumes.
v Remote-copy target volume is not mapped to the recovery site.

"VMFS volume cannot be found" failures

Verify the following items when you encounter "VMFS volume cannot be found"
failure during test or recovery operations.
v For environments that are preconfigured, ensure that the pre-created backup
site.
recovery site.
Mounted in Hosts and Clusters/Configuration/Storage/Devices.
(secondary) site DS8000 device's HMC are the same.
on both the protected and the recovery site.
recovery site.
Devices in the SRM Array Managers on both sites. This step is necessary to
ensure that there is no error in place before reprotecting the plan.
recovery site.
target volumes are pre-mapped to the VMware ESX servers at the recovery site.
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