vgimport write failed error after SRDF split

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • During a disaster recovery where SRDF is used to provide disaster restart solutions, replication link are splitted and status of LUNs are turned from "Write protected" to "Read-Write". However, the vgimport operation fails and reporting below error.
# vgimport testvg
 /dev/mapper/mpathak: write failed after 0 of 12288 at 158208: Operation not permitted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • EMC SRDF(Symmetrix Remote Data Facility)

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