SRDF Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager: SRA test failover failed with error "Failed to create snapshots of replica devices"

Summary: SRDF Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager: SRA test failover failed with error: "Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to create snapshot of replica device . SRA command 'testFailoverStart' failed for device ''. An error occurred while performing testfailover start operation" ...

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Symptoms

Errors from the SRA log: 

[ERROR]: The Symm Dev [XXXXX] on Symm [000XXXXXXXX] has consistency disabled. The adapter strongly recommends to enable consistency across the input RDF devices unless the devices belong to a single RA group and are synchronous 

[ERROR]: The Symm Dev [XXXXX] on Symm [000XXXXXXXX] has consistency disabled. The adapter strongly recommends to enable consistency across the input RDF devices unless the devices belong to a single RA group and are synchronous

 

The devices in question (highlighted in the above error) are part of Synchronous replication and NOT Asynchronous replication.

Cause

Though the devices in question are not part of asynchronous replication, the error indicates consistency. This is because the protection group contained devices that are part of multiple RDF groups, and the devices were not grouped. 

Resolution

There are two options:

  1. Add all devices to one RDF group.
  2. Group all devices (from multiple RDF groups) in a composite group.

If the protection group contains devices from multiple RDF groups, then all the devices must be grouped in a composite group.

The recommendation and best practice is to have devices from one RDF group in one protection group. 

Affected Products

SRDF Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager
Article Properties
Article Number: 000399074
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 03 Dec 2025
Version:  1
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