Prevent KVM VMDisk from attaching

First, this is bare metal with 12 physical drives installed. /dev/sda is the system drive and appears fine. Issue is that there are scripted/automated activities that require the remaining 11 physical drives to be available as /dev/sdb through /dev/sdl.

The problem is that /dev/sde is being taken up by KVM:vmDisk (found this by lssci). I've searched a bit - my search skill suck as I generally get too technical in my questions - and found some references to removing virtualization code but maybe I didn't get it all?

I've had this on previous installs on similar hardware but it seemed to resolve itself.

os-release:
V: 7.7 (Maipo)
K: 3.10.0-1062-el7.x86_64