2278535 - Secondary Hana Database not starting with error "no disaster recovery mapping defined"

After enabling system replication, you try to start HANA DB system on the secondary site but it failed to start. In the nameserver.trc file you see the following:

 sr_nameserver    TREXNameServer.cpp(17363) : starting in system replication mode
 sr_nameserver    TREXNameServer.cpp(15174) : replication of topology from primary site was successful
 sr_nameserver    Utils.cpp(00323) : no disaster recovery mapping defined, please re-run  hdbnsutil -sr_register
 NameServer       TREXNameServer.cpp(03673) : error in topology, cannot start as secondary site -> stopping instance ...

or 

sr_nameserver    TREXNameServer.cpp(11043) : starting in system replication mode
sr_nameserver    Utils.cpp(00719) : no disaster recovery mapping defined, please re-run  hdbnsutil -sr_register
NameServer       TREXNameServer.cpp(03356) : error while updating topology after drReplicateTopology -> stopping instance ...


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