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February 3rd, 2012 15:00

Unable to find a placeholder datastore

I have SRM-5 installed using the MirrorView SRA for VNX on a couple of CX3-10c arrays.

SRM is able to discover the arrays and can see all the replicated DataStores and VM's

When I try to create a protection group, it shows as "Not Configured" and I get the following message;

"Placeholder VM Creation error: Unable to find a placeholder datastore for the host/cluster DR Cluster"

I have a placeholder Datastore configured at both sites. I have even tried VMFS-3 and VMFS-5 for the datastore, but it did not make a difference.

Has anyone seen this issue or have any idea why SRM will not create the placeholder VM when it recognizes that there is a pLaceholder Datastore?

161 Posts

February 5th, 2012 17:00

Rarely I met the issue. I will do the research and reply to you then.

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February 5th, 2012 17:00

I fixed the problem by rebooting both vCenter servers.

Restarting the services was not enough, it took a full reboot and everything started working.

161 Posts

February 5th, 2012 17:00

Great. I learned it now. Good luck.

Lu

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