Installing two evaluation instances of ESXI hosts using the same license.

[rmedel]

Hello!!

I am testing vMotion using a single evaluation license of ESXi 55.  I have an ESXi01 host and adding a second host ESXi02 using the same license.  WHen adding the host, I receive the following error.

Datastore 'Local-esxi01 conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same

URL (ds:///vmfs/volumes/20394203842098340sf0), but is backed by different physical storage

Question:  DO I need an another evaluation and the reinstall the ESXi02 hosts and

then add it to the datastore?

Thanks

[markdjones82]

You are trying to add a host to Vcenter?  use the VI client to log directly into the host and try renaming the local datastore.  I recall it used to rename the datastore if it had same name with a (1) after it, but maybe that behavior changed.

[rmedel]

Thank you. I'll try that

[rmedel · Accepted solution]

Thank you again Mark, your suggestion worked.

Rich

[rmedel]

Thank you for your assistance.  I renamed the datastore on ESXi02 as you suggested and that solved the problem.

RIch

[markdjones82]

Cool glad it worked, if it is answer you can mark it as answer.  It does seem to be a type of bug because it should be able to rename on join.