Why starting vHBA pool is failing with error "error: unsupported configuration: the wwnn/wwpn for 'host16' are assigned to an HBA"

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Issue

  • Starting vHBA SCSI pool fails with the below error:
# virsh pool-start vhbapool
error: Failed to start pool vhbapool
error: unsupported configuration: the wwnn/wwpn for 'host16' are assigned to an HBA

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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