Recovery plan execution might fail to power on a virtual machine with 'InvalidArgument:path'

Recovery plan execution might fail to power on a VM.

Problem

When you run a recovery plan, Site Recovery Manager might fail to power on a VM with (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument:path) error. The following error message appears in the Site Recovery Manager recovery site server logs:

YYYY-MM-DDT20:24:35.996-08:00 error vmware-dr[02448] [SRM@6876 sub=Recovery ...] Plan execution (test workflow) failed; 
plan id: 34f86036-3bc7-4c2d-a841-e15c5d781532, plan name: HBRRP_LIMITS, error: (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {
-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, 
-->    faultMessage = <unset>, 
-->    invalidProperty = "path"
-->    msg = "A specified parameter was not correct: path"
--> }
--> 

Cause

This error is a result of a failing 'Relocating VM before powered on' operation on the target destination ESXi host. The related error message in the ESXi vpxa service logs is:

YYYY-MM-DDT03:56:48.255Z error vpxa[2099931] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxaVmprov opID=failedOpId] 
Failed to canonicalize vm register path; 
/vmfs/volumes/.../recoveredVm.vmx, err: 16(Device or resource busy)
...
YYYY-MM-DDT03:56:48.256Z info vpxa[2099931] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=failedOpId] 
[VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-1824 -- vpxa -- vpxapi.VpxaService.registerVm: vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument:
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.InvalidArgument) {
-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
-->    faultMessage = <unset>,
-->    invalidProperty = "path"

Solution

Re-run the failed recovery plan.