"Operation timed out" while protecting a VM

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When trying to configure protection on a VM in SRM 4.1 and every time I do it fails with the error "Operation timed out" and I see in the following error in the Site Recovery Manager log:

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 verbose 'PropertyProvider' RecordOp ASSIGN: info.error, com.vmware.vcDr.ReplicationGroup.AddVmTask-153

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 verbose 'com.vmware.vcDr.ReplicationGroup.AddVmTask-Task' Error set to (vim.fault.Timedout) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

msg = "",

}

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 verbose 'PropertyProvider' RecordOp ASSIGN: info.completeTime, com.vmware.vcDr.ReplicationGroup.AddVmTask-153

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 info 'com.vmware.vcDr.ReplicationGroup.AddVmTask-Task' State set to error

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 verbose 'PropertyProvider' RecordOp ASSIGN: info.state, com.vmware.vcDr.ReplicationGroup.AddVmTask-153

2010-09-21 14:07:29.502 04584 verbose 'PropertyProvider' RecordOp REMOVE: addVmsTaskList, group-4425'

Does anyone have any insight into what this alarm is telling me and how to resolve it?

Thanks.

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[mal_michael · Accepted solution]

I have seen this issue after repairing the SRM installation. Restarting both SRM servers solved the problem.

In your case, is it fresh installation or have you done "repair" recently?

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This is a fresh install of SRM. I rebooted the SRM servers anyway and it fixed the problem.

Thanks.

V/