Unable to add LUNs exported from a Hitachi SAN Storage to a RHEV 3 Environment

Issue

• Adding a Fibre Channel or iSCSI LUN from a Hitachi SAN Storage results in one of the following error messages:

  • From RHEV Manager's Event Logs and/or /var/log/rhevm/rhevm.log

    2012-08-22 13:44:40,080 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.AddSANStorageDomainCommand] (http-0.0.0.0-8443-1) Command org.ovirt.engineANStorageDomainCommand throw Vdc Bll exception. With error message VdcBLLException: org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VDSErrorExcepion: VDSErrorException: Failed to CreateVGVDS, error = Failed to initialize physical device: ("found: {} notFound: ('/dev/mapper/1HITACHI\\)
    

  • From /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log on Hypervisor nodes:

    Thread-893558::DEBUG::2012-08-22 14:33:07,829::lvm::374::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(cmd) FAILED: <err> = '  Failed to read physical volume "/dev/mapper/1HITACHI\\x20612584510012"\n'; <rc> = 5
    Thread-893558::ERROR::2012-08-22 14:33:07,830::task::868::TaskManager.Task::(_setError) Unexpected error
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/vdsm/storage/task.py", line 876, in _run
        return fn(*args, **kargs)
      File "/usr/share/vdsm/storage/hsm.py", line 852, in public_createVG
        metadataSize=blockSD.VG_METADATASIZE)
      File "/usr/share/vdsm/storage/lvm.py", line 872, in createVG
        _initpvs(pvs, metadataSize)
      File "/usr/share/vdsm/storage/lvm.py", line 721, in _initpvs
        (found, notFound))
    PhysDevInitializationError: Failed to initialize physical device: ("found: {} notFound: ('/dev/mapper/1HITACHI\\\\x20612584510012',)",)