vSphere Replication – Initial full sync hangs

Descriptionof infrastructure:

• 1 x vSphere vCenter 6.0 2502222
• 2 x host on ESXi 6.0 2745440
• 1 x vSphere Replication Appliance 6.0.0.1

Description of problem:

• After configuringreplicationthe jobforvm, WindowsServer 2012R2, whichhas a total of3diskswith a totalcapacity of 3TB-recovered900 gigabytesand its subsequentlaunchphase"InitialFullSync"transfersa fewGB ofdata, and then out of nowherewithoutanyAlertoreventterminates thedata transfer.

•If you've clicked thereplication of the"pauseoutgoingreplication" andafter a momentshelet go, althougha shortride, but thenagainbroke...

• Restartthe servicehelpedVRM

• RestartvSphereReplicationAppliance-did not help

A possible solution:

• Migration ofVMs onanother host

• SSH onto the ESXi host that is running the virtual machine you’re replicating
• Run the following command “vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms” which should spit out a list of all VMs running on the host.  Note the ID number against the VM you are replicating
• Run the following command “vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.getState x” where x is the ID number of the VM you’re replicating

Tip:

vSphere Replication Synchronization Typeshttps://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/06/vsphere-replication-synchronization-types.html