You must take the offline to replace a . Depending on how the host is taken offline, reservation and logical drive registration data for the that are no longer part of the configuration might be retained along with current registration and reservation data.
Accumulation of old, data eventually might cause the to reach the upper boundary of allowed and to issue an Insufficient Registration Resources error if another HBA host port attempts to register. The maximum number of persistent reservations per logical drive depends on your system configuration.
To prevent an Insufficient Registration Resources error, you must clear the and of HBA host ports no longer included in the configuration. It is recommended that you clear logical drive reservations only during scheduled maintenance downtimes to prevent interference with cluster server operations.
Note:
The maximum length of the HBA host port name cannot exceed 16 hexadecimal characters.
Important:
An HBA host port name is required and must be unique. If the HBA host port name duplicates that of another HBA host port in the , you receive an error message. You are prompted to type a new HBA host port name.
Note:
The maximum length of the HBA host port name cannot exceed 16 hexadecimal characters.
Important:
An HBA host port name is required and must be unique. If the HBA host port name duplicates that of another HBA host port in the storage subsystem, you receive an error message. You are prompted to type a new HBA host port name.