Azure Site Recovery Enable Protection failing with error "Protection couldn't be configured for the virtual machine". Error 60007, 40003

Symptom

Enabling protection for a virtual machine fails.

Error message

Protection couldn't be configured for the virtual machine.

Error code

60007, 40003

Resolution

  1. Refer Troubleshooting Hyper-V issues for more details. Initial replication for the virtual machine failed, or it was canceled outside the Microsoft Azure console. Ensure that you fix any issues in the Event Viewer logs on the Hyper-V host server.
    • Applications and Service Logs-Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin
    • Applications and Service Logs - MicrosoftAzureRecoveryServices
  2. Disable protection for the virtual machine and enable it again.

References

Common ASR errors and their resolutions