VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3 Release Notes

Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3 | 05 SEP 2023 | Build 22359471 | Download Check for additions and updates to these release notes. VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3 is a minor product patch release that provides bug fixes and improvements. The content of the VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7 Release Notes and all following 8.7.0.x patch release notes applies to this version as well.

What's New in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3

• The VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3 Express Patch provides bug fixes.

Installation and Upgrade

For information about installing and upgrading Site Recovery Manager, see Site Recovery Manager Installation and Configuration.

For the supported upgrade paths for Site Recovery Manager, select Upgrade Path and VMware Site Recovery Manager in the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices.

If you are running Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.x, upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3. See Upgrading Site Recovery Manager in Site Recovery Manager 8.7 Installation and Configuration for instructions about upgrading Site Recovery Manager.

If you use vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.x, upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance to version 8.7.0.3. See the vSphere Replication 8.7.0.3 Release Notes for information about vSphere Replication 8.7.0.3.

NOTES:

• VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5.x was the last general version that supports storage policy protection groups (SPPGs). You must either remove or migrate your SPPGs to regular array-based replication protection groups before upgrading to Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.x Site Recovery Manager 8.5.0.5 and 8.6.x has a dedicated Storage Policy Protection Group (SPPG) migration tool that you can use to migrate your SPPGs to regular array-based replication protection groups. See, Migrating Storage Policy Protection Groups to Array-Based Replication Protection Groups to learn how to use the tool.

• If the vCenter Server instances on the protected and recovery sites are in Enhanced Linked Mode, they must be direct replication partners. Otherwise, upgrade might fail.

Resolved Issues

• After upgrading the Site Recovery Manager appliance, the NTP service is not working

  After you upgrade the Site Recovery Manager virtual appliance from an earlier version to version 8.7.0.2, the NTP service is not working properly.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3.

• The test failback operation might fail with an error

  While performing a test failback on Virtual Volumes datastores, the operation might fail with the following error: Error - No hosts with hardware version '19' and datastore(s) '"xxx"' which are powered on and not in maintenance mode are available.

  This issue is fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3.

• The Site Recovery Manager service stops responding after performing a failover

  If the peerId of a storage device is not set correctly, the Site Recovery Manager service might stop responding. The Site Recovery Manager logs show the following error.

  --> Panic: Assert Failed: !(_peerId.empty()) (DSInfoData: Peer Id cannot be NULL.) @ ../../public/providers/abr/common/abrUtils/recoverySpecHelper.h:149

  This issue if fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3.

• Test failover operation fails due to an issue with snapshot creation

  While performing a test failover, the operation might fail during snapshots creation. The Site Recovery Manager logs indicate that Site Recovery Manager is searching for NvME initiators, even though no NvME initiators are configured during setup.

  YYYY-MM-DDT17:02:52.397Z warning vmware-dr[02106] [SRM@6876 sub=Storage opID=1080faf9-8aab-4e9d-92ce-38ad1825757a-test:ea81:4ff7:342e:24fc] Failed to obtain initiators for NVMe access group 'xxx'

  This issue if fixed in Site Recovery Manager 8.7.0.3.