diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
index 7276d3d014..703193b1b2 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.capacity.conf;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.NodeExistsException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -61,7 +62,8 @@ public class ZKConfigurationStore extends YarnConfigurationStore {
   private static final String CONF_STORE_PATH = "CONF_STORE";
   private static final String FENCING_PATH = "FENCING";
   private static final String CONF_VERSION_PATH = "CONF_VERSION";
-
+  private static final String NODEEXISTS_MSG = "Encountered NodeExists error."
+      + " Skipping znode creation since another RM has already created it";
   private String zkVersionPath;
   private String logsPath;
   private String confStorePath;
@@ -92,7 +94,11 @@ public void initialize(Configuration config, Configuration schedConf,
     this.fencingNodePath = getNodePath(znodeParentPath, FENCING_PATH);
     this.confVersionPath = getNodePath(znodeParentPath, CONF_VERSION_PATH);
 
-    zkManager.createRootDirRecursively(znodeParentPath, zkAcl);
+    try {
+      zkManager.createRootDirRecursively(znodeParentPath, zkAcl);
+    } catch(NodeExistsException e) {
+      LOG.warn(NODEEXISTS_MSG, e);
+    }
     zkManager.delete(fencingNodePath);
 
     if (createNewZkPath(logsPath)) {
@@ -244,7 +250,12 @@ public List<LogMutation> getConfirmedConfHistory(long fromId) {
    */
   private boolean createNewZkPath(String path) throws Exception {
     if (!zkManager.exists(path)) {
-      zkManager.create(path);
+      try {
+        zkManager.create(path);
+      } catch(NodeExistsException e) {
+        LOG.warn(NODEEXISTS_MSG, e);
+        return false;
+      }
       return true;
     } else {
       return false;
@@ -279,8 +290,12 @@ private void safeSetZkData(String path, Object data) throws Exception {
 
   @VisibleForTesting
   protected void safeCreateZkData(String path, byte[] data) throws Exception {
-    zkManager.safeCreate(path, data, zkAcl, CreateMode.PERSISTENT,
-        zkAcl, fencingNodePath);
+    try {
+      zkManager.safeCreate(path, data, zkAcl, CreateMode.PERSISTENT,
+          zkAcl, fencingNodePath);
+    } catch(NodeExistsException e) {
+      LOG.warn(NODEEXISTS_MSG, e);
+    }
   }
 
   private static String getNodePath(String root, String nodeName) {