MSDR Appliance for site recovery of VMware VMs is not showing new VMs added to vCenter.

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MSDR Appliance for site recovery of VMware VMs is not showing new VMs added to vCenter.

Chris Charles 1

Cannot add new VMs to replicate to Azure

All the VMs we initially added on first setup are replicating ok, but it seems like the discovery of NEW VMs is not happening.

All VMs responding to ping from the appliance.

Prrudram-MSFT 28,366 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-03-26T08:23:42.033+00:00

Hello @Chris Charles ,

These instructions are part of this TSG https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-troubleshoot-configuration-server#vcenter-discovery-failures
Apologies for the inconvenience caused here. All these services are on configuration server.
On services.msc:
Tmansvc will be as it is as Tmansvc
DRA provider is Microsoft Azure Site Recovery service.

To re-register DRA service,
Download a latest vault credentials file, by navigating to recovery services vault, Select your vault->under left pane, look for site recovery infrastructure and click on configuration servers, click on + add a server, and drop down to select physical server, and in steps 3 you will find vault credentials.
then navigate to E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery\Home\Svsystems\bin and launch Cspsconfigtool.exe.
To reregister the server, please follow the steps here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/physical-manage-configuration-server#reregister-a-configuration-server-with-the-same-vault

Let me know how it goes.

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Prrudram-MSFT 28,366 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-03-26T08:23:42.033+00:00

Hello @Chris Charles ,

These instructions are part of this TSG https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-troubleshoot-configuration-server#vcenter-discovery-failures
Apologies for the inconvenience caused here. All these services are on configuration server.
On services.msc:
Tmansvc will be as it is as Tmansvc
DRA provider is Microsoft Azure Site Recovery service.

To re-register DRA service,
Download a latest vault credentials file, by navigating to recovery services vault, Select your vault->under left pane, look for site recovery infrastructure and click on configuration servers, click on + add a server, and drop down to select physical server, and in steps 3 you will find vault credentials.
then navigate to E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery\Home\Svsystems\bin and launch Cspsconfigtool.exe.
To reregister the server, please follow the steps here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/physical-manage-configuration-server#reregister-a-configuration-server-with-the-same-vault

Let me know how it goes.

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Hello @Chris Charles ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.

vCenter discovery failures:

To resolve vCenter discovery failures, add the vCenter server to the byPass list proxy settings.
Download PsExec tool from here to access System user content.
Open Internet Explorer in system user content by running the following command line psexec -s -i "%programfiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
Add proxy settings in IE and restart tmanssvc service.
To configure DRA proxy settings, run cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider
Next, execute DRCONFIGURATOR.EXE /configure /AddBypassUrls [add IP Address/FQDN of vCenter Server provided during Configure vCenter Server/vSphere ESXi server step of Configuration Server deployment]

Reference : vmware-azure-troubleshoot-configuration-server

Another reason for the discovery to not work correctly could be due to change in vCenter account credentials that were passed earlier during initial configuration. Please update the credentails on the ASR configuration servers cspsconfigtool.exe. For instructions follow this Link

Please "Accept as Answer" and Upvote if any of the above helped to help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

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