VMware Site Recovery Manager uses old network mapping after attaching a NIC to another network
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Article ID: 320230
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Products
VMware Live Recovery
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms: If you first protect a VM in Array-Based Replication Protection Group(ARB), vSphere Replication Protection Group(VR), or vVols Protection Group and then attach the VM's NICs to a different network, SRM will continue using the network mapping related to the original VM configuration at the moment of protection.
Environment
VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3.x VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1.x VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.2.x
Cause
VM based protection groups(ARB, VR, and vVol) determines the target VMs network on the recovery site during the VM protection process by using site-wide network inventory mappings. The info is stored in SRM DB and used during failover to attach the recovered VMs to configured networks. After the moment of protection, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) continuously monitors for protected VMs location, inventory, and settings changes so to update its protection metadata. That includes the automatic protection of new NIC devices, but if you reconfigure existing NIC to point to a different network, SRM will not react on this change and will continue to use the old network protection metadata.
Note: This issue is seen in VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3 and earlier versions.
Resolution
This issue is resolved in VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3.1, available at VMware Download.
Workaround: To workaround this issue, use one of the following: