Can't add second V4V Adapter Instance

[Joe3778]

I'm setting up a second View Pod for expansion and I'd like to add it to ops manager for View but I get "The resource with specified name and identifiers already exists.".  I'm giving it a completely different Adapter Instance Name and I'm using new credentials.  Only thing that is the same is the Collector, Adapter Kind, and Metric set.  My existing pod is working great I just want to add the second one.  Can I only monitor one view environment with ops manager for view?  I've attached the error.

[gradinka]

That's on 5.8.x .right? And not 6.0

[twhiffen · Accepted solution]

You should use the same V4V adapter instance to monitor both View pods.

While you can’t create more than 1 V4V adapter instance on the same collector, a single V4V adapter instance can monitor multiple View pods.  Just install a V4V broker agent in the new View pod and pair it with the same V4V adapter instance as the first pod.

[Joe3778]

That seemed to work.  I don't see it in vcops yet but that got me passed adding the broker integration service.  May just need time or maybe a restart of some servers.  If it doesn't eventually show up I'll post back.

Thanks!

[Joe3778]

The broker integration service is running on the connection server but nothing is showing up in Ops manager.  I don't see any errors in the integration service log files: (C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenter Operations for View\logs)

02/09/2015 13:58:28 INFO    MetricUpdate task timing (sec): Total time 0.312; Pods 0.006; VCs 0.002; Brokers 0.102; Desktop VMs: 0.202; Sessions 0.000

02/09/2015 13:58:28 INFO    Queued EVENT_NEW_SAMPLE message from metric update task

02/09/2015 14:03:28 INFO    Finished TaskGetViewApiDesktopStatus: TaskGetViewApiDesktopStatus : SUCCEEDED

02/09/2015 14:03:28 INFO    MetricUpdate task timing (sec): Total time 0.317; Pods 0.009; VCs 0.002; Brokers 0.104; Desktop VMs: 0.202; Sessions 0.000

02/09/2015 14:03:28 INFO    Queued EVENT_NEW_SAMPLE message from metric update task

I'm not sure what else to look at.