Storage vMotion of Instant Recovery fails with “The method is disabled by ‘’”
Storage vMotion of Instant Recovery fails with “The method is disabled by ‘’”
KB ID:
1916
Product:
Veeam Backup & Replication
Version:
7.x
Published:
2014-08-07
Last Modified:
2020-08-13
Challenge
When attempting to migrate an Instant Recovery VM to a production datastore using VMware Storage vMotion the following error occurs:
The method is disabled by ‘VM_ID’ Call ‘VirtualMachine.Relocate’ for object ‘<VM_Name>’ on vCenter Server ‘<vCenter_Name’ failed.
Solution
To correct this issue please perform the following tasks:
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.