Reprotect Failures; Incomplete Recovery - IBM DS8000 User Manual

v For environments that are not preconfigured, ensure that backup target volumes
Example:
Symptom: VMFS volume that is on recovered devices "xxx" and expected to be
auto-mounted during HBA rescan cannot be found. Figure 42 shows an example
error message of a VMFS volume that is on the recovered devices and expected to
be auto-mounted during HBA rescan, but cannot be found.
Figure 42. Incomplete Recovery
Possible causes and solutions:
v The backup target volumes are not mapped to the VMware ESX servers.
v Some extra time is required to be auto-mounted. Increase the value of parameter
Note: You might also need to increase the storage.commandTimeout value of
VMware SRM appropriately.

Reprotect failures

Verify the following items when you encounter failure during Reprotect operations:
v The user name and password for both the protected (primary) and the recovery
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are mapped to the VMware ESX servers successfully at the recovery (secondary)
site.
– For environments that are preconfigured, check whether pre-created backup
target volumes are pre-mapped to the VMware ESX servers at the recovery
site.
– For environments that are not preconfigured, check and correct host
connections of the recovery site DS8000.
WaitExtraSeconds in Windows Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Wow6432Node\IBM Corporation\IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter. This
parameter makes DS8000 SRA wait extra time before it responds to SRM.
(secondary) site DS8000 device's HMC are the same.