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Hi,
I'm testing our ASR instance and ran into an issue. Failover of VM from VMware to Azure works fine but when I click the Reprotect button, I receive this error:
"maxwell" was the hostname of a previous vcenter server, now decommissioned. I don't know why it would show in the error message as the replication job was created using the new host and so was the re-protect job (the current host is the only one available in the dropdown menu).
The old host still appears in the replication appliance, but I see no option to remove it, only edit it. Editing to blank fields doesn't work, just makes them marked red for mandatory.
I also see no way to remove it from the Azure admin portal.
Appreciate any advice
@Donald MacPherson Thank you for contacting us through Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to help!
It seems that you are facing an issue while re-protecting a VM from VMware to Azure. The error message you received indicates that the replication job was created using the old vCenter server hostname "maxwell" which is now decommissioned.
To resolve this issue, you can try the following steps:
Remove the old vCenter server from the replication appliance. To do this, you can edit the replication appliance settings and remove the old vCenter server from the list of vCenter servers. If you are unable to remove it, you can try to add a new vCenter server and then remove the old one.
Once you have removed the old vCenter server from the replication appliance, you can try to re-protect the VM again. Make sure that you select the correct vCenter server hostname while creating the replication job.
If you are still unable to re-protect the VM, you can try to remove the replication job and create a new one. To remove the replication job, go to the Azure portal, select the replication job, and click on the "Delete" button. Once you have removed the replication job, you can create a new one and select the correct vCenter server hostname.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance in this matter.
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For anyone reading this, I never did find a way to remove the old vsphere host from the replication appliance, the option just wasn't there.
I ended up rebuilding it from scratch.
@Donald MacPherson Thanks for the update.
Appreciate your time and patience in this matter!