Symptoms:

       

  • Microsoft default SAN policy might cause VM ‘{VM_name}’ (VPG ‘{VPG_name}’) volumes to become offline upon recovery
  • VPG0043

       

    

Cause:

   

   One of the recovery disks for a protected vm fails to mount on the recovered vm on the DR site. The disk comes up in offline mode and has to be manually brought online. This issue occurs with disks using the PVSCSI driver.     

   

    

Solution:


  1. Fix the root issue on the impacted VMs by following this KB article
    VPG0043 – The Microsoft default SAN policy might cause VM ‘{VM_name}’ (VPG ‘{VPG_name}’) volumes to become offline upon recovery
  2. If the alert still remains after following the above instructions using the latest tweak tool apply the following ZVM tweak
    Note. This tweak will disable this alert for all future VPGs
    t_DisableCrossReplicationMonitor=1 


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