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vSphere Replication fails with the error: Unknown controller type (2030526)

Protecting a virtual machine using vSphere Replication and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.x fails
You see the error:

Unknown controller type
com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.vm.device.VirtualSCSIController' fod disk '[datastore]/vmname/diskname.vmdk

The issue occurs when the VMDK descriptor has an entry similar to:

ddb.adapterType = "legacyESX"

The legacy ESX adapter type is not supported after VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2.

To resolve this issue, change the adapter type.

To change the adapter type:

Power off the virtual machine
SSH into the ESX host. For more information, see Connecting to an ESX host using a SSH client (1019852).
Edit the VMDK descriptor and change ddb.adapterType to something else. For example:

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
Power on the virtual machine.

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