How to activate shared volume group outside cluster control that utilizes lvmlockd shared activation

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Issue

  • Is it possible to enabled the VG with shared flag outside of cluster?
  • Manual activation of shared vg failing.
# vgchange -aey shared_vg1
WARNING: lvmlockd process is not running.
Cannot access VG shared_vg1 due to failed lock.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9
  • High Availability Pacemaker Cluster with Resilient Storage Add-on
  • GFS2 cluster setup

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