If the DRVA is not operational, newly added disks can still appear in the RVM. However, the DRVA must be fully functional in order for data to be synchronized between the primary site and the RVM.
An issue with the recovery DRVA may be reported with the alert message "Error retrieving protected domain details from DR virtual appliance."
For Example: In a protected domain with CFO active, if the DRVA is offline and a new disk is added to the protected VM, the new disk will still be visible in the RVM. However, when a failover is initiated the contents of that disk will not actually be present in the recovered VM because the data was not synchronized with the object store. Related article: Protected Domain Recovery Fails on CFO Recovery Domain |