diff --git a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/RequestConverter.java b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/RequestConverter.java
index ab764a38e47..c312de821ec 100644
--- a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/RequestConverter.java
+++ b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/protobuf/RequestConverter.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.MasterProtos;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ByteStringer;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
@@ -704,18 +703,22 @@ public final class RequestConverter {
  /**
   * Create a protocol buffer OpenRegionRequest to open a list of regions
   *
+  * @param server the serverName for the RPC
   * @param regionOpenInfos info of a list of regions to open
   * @param openForReplay
   * @return a protocol buffer OpenRegionRequest
   */
  public static OpenRegionRequest
-     buildOpenRegionRequest(final List<Pair<HRegionInfo,
+     buildOpenRegionRequest(ServerName server, final List<Pair<HRegionInfo,
          List<ServerName>>> regionOpenInfos, Boolean openForReplay) {
    OpenRegionRequest.Builder builder = OpenRegionRequest.newBuilder();
    for (Pair<HRegionInfo, List<ServerName>> regionOpenInfo: regionOpenInfos) {
      builder.addOpenInfo(buildRegionOpenInfo(regionOpenInfo.getFirst(),
        regionOpenInfo.getSecond(), openForReplay));
    }
+   if (server != null) {
+     builder.setServerStartCode(server.getStartcode());
+   }
    return builder.build();
  }
 
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
index 60fb2bba8e8..2449164e6f4 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/ServerManager.java
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ public class ServerManager {
         " failed because no RPC connection found to this server");
     }
 
-    OpenRegionRequest request = RequestConverter.buildOpenRegionRequest(regionOpenInfos,
+    OpenRegionRequest request = RequestConverter.buildOpenRegionRequest(server, regionOpenInfos,
       (RecoveryMode.LOG_REPLAY == this.services.getMasterFileSystem().getLogRecoveryMode()));
     try {
       OpenRegionResponse response = admin.openRegion(null, request);