Unable to remove multipath device with "mpathX in use"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to remove mpath device after removing the LUN from the server. On removal it throws following error.
multipath -f mpath26
mpath26: map in use

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • device-mapper-multipah

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