I am getting an erroro n the md storage manager when creating my second esx hosts and mapping the iscsi software identifier to it
the error is
OPERATING ENVIRONMENT DATA
Client system name: DCFM
Client OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
Application version: 10.80.G6.61
Storage array management version: 10.80.G6.61
Storage array name: aus-md3200i
Firmware version: 07.80.41.60
Management class: devmgr.v1080api06.Manager
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ERROR DATA
Command sent to RAID controller module in slot: 1
Host name: 10.50.233.34
IP address: 10.50.233.34
Return code: Error 57 - The operation cannot complete because the identifier or name you provided already exists. Please provide another identifier or name and then retry the operation.
Operation when error occurred: PROC_createInitiator
Timestamp: May 14, 2013 5:16:58 PM
STACK DATA
devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.ManagementOperationFailedException:
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.SYMbolClient.dispatchOperation(SYMbolClient.java:532)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.issueCommand(StorageArrayFacade.java:9922)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.sendCommandCommon(StorageArrayFacade.java:9486)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.sendCommand(StorageArrayFacade.java:9413)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.createInitiator(StorageArrayFacade.java:11185)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.mapping.ISCSIHostPortStrategy.createHostPort(ISCSIHostPortStrategy.java:144)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.mapping.HostPortStrategyManager.createHostPort(HostPortStrategyManager.java:367)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.hostwizard.CreateHostPortsCard.createHostPorts(CreateHostPortsCard.java:241)
at devmgr.v1080api06.sam.hostwizard.CreateHostWizard$3.performOp(CreateHostWizard.java:780)
at devmgr.v1080api06.shared.AbstractTaskAdapter.run(AbstractTaskAdapter.java:104)
THREAD DATA
Thread[Reference Handler,10,system]
Thread[Finalizer,8,system]
Thread[Signal Dispatcher,9,system]
Thread[Attach Listener,5,system]
Thread[Java2D Disposer,10,system]
Thread[TimerQueue,5,system]
Thread[AWT-Shutdown,5,main]
Thread[AWT-Windows,6,main]
Thread[EventQueueMonitor-ComponentEvtDispatch,5,main]
Thread[Thread-3,5,main]
Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
Thread[DestroyJavaVM,5,main]
Thread[ChangeDetector,6,main]
Thread[LogMsgThread,6,main]
Thread[Np_Link_Monitor0,6,main]
Thread[DMVGarbageCollectorThread,6,main]
Thread[RecoveryProfile-20,6,main]
Thread[AEN-21,6,main]
Thread[RecoveryProfile-23,6,main]
Thread[AEN-24,6,main]
Thread[Timer-0,6,main]
Thread[RecoveryProfile-27,6,main]
Thread[AEN-28,6,main]
Thread[Timer-1,6,main]
Thread[Timer-2,6,main]
Thread[Image Animator 0,3,main]
I am not sure why it says the identifier already exists. there is one host connected to the md with a different identifier.
