I’ve been doing some lab work this week staging a vSphere 6.0U1b with SRM 6.0 environment for some upgrade scenario testing and i hit an issue with SRM 6.0 that i had not seen before. When trying to restore the SRM placeholder VM for a protected VM I was getting the following error
No hosts with hardware version ‘7’ and datastore(s) “NFS02” which are powered on and not in maintenance mode are available
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Seemed like a pretty odd error given that my target host is 6.0 and it has the NFS02 datastore mounted. I checked all the obvious to ensure there were no host issues and then went on the KB hunt. Tried the solution outlined here to no avail https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2079084
Also tried this, again no joy. http://pubs.vmware.com/srm-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.srm.admin.doc%2FGUID-FE6A85EC-B44E-415A-9C5F-1E17BC846119.html
As a last ditch effort i tried rebooting the target ESXi host and that fixed the issue and I was then able to restore the placeholder VM and continue testing. Not sure on the root cause. This is a fully nested environment, using vSphere Replication & a VNX File appliance so it may just be environmental. Will update this post if i figure it out!
Onwards with testing!
LifeOfBrianOC 