Storage vMotion of Instant Recovery fails with “The method is disabled by ‘’”
Challenge
The method is disabled by ‘VM_ID’
Call ‘VirtualMachine.Relocate’ for object ‘<VM_Name>’ on vCenter Server ‘<vCenter_Name’ failed.
Solution
1. Power down the Guest OS of the instant recovery VM from within the OS.
2. Remove the Instant Recovery VM from Inventory via vSphere client
3. Add the Instant Recovery VM to inventory from the Veeambackup_ServerName NFS datastore
Once the VM has been removed and added back into the infrastructure please test the Storage vMotion again.
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