NVP vProxy: Unable to assign vProxy for FL Recovery: NSR VMware proxy is not available for datastores (<empty>) using transport mode 'Hotadd' in vCenter
Summary: VM FLR fails with unable to to mount
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Symptoms
The following error is posted in NMC as well as C:\Program Files\EMC Networker\nsr\logs\adhoc\nrvproxy_flr folder.
155854:nsrvproxy_flr: Starting Saveset Mount...
155858:nsrvproxy_flr: Mounting Saveset Id '9a3e1c2d-00000006-97396bf7-59396bf7-006a5000-92010156' on vCenter 'vcenter.ebr.com' at VM 'vm-rh5(vm-24)' using NetWorker server 'networker.ebr.com' for user 'root'.
162830:nsrvproxy_flr: Mount Job Id '928032'.
153330:nsrvproxy_flr: Unable to assign vProxy for FL Recovery: NSR VMware proxy is not available for datastores (<empty>) using transport mode 'Hotadd' in vCenter 'vcenter.ebr.com'..
164881:nsrvproxy_flr: Operation completed with errors.
Figure 1: NMC recover wizard showing VM FLR mount failure.
Cause
The datastore restriction will essentially mean we can work with only X or Y datastore.
If there are datastore restrictions, no FLR and Instant Recovery will work.
If there are datastore restrictions, no FLR and Instant Recovery will work.
Figure 2: vProxy settings showing Datastore restriction.
Resolution
Ensure that you have at least one proxy that is not restricted to a specific datastore. For the vProxy, select Properties and then select Configuration, and verify that datastores is left blank.
Figure 3: vProxy settings showing no datastore restriction
Figure 3: vProxy settings showing no datastore restriction
Additional Information
Affected Products
NetWorkerProducts
NetWorkerArticle Properties
Article Number: 000029040
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 03 Nov 2023
Version: 3
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