VMware guest looses access to one or more LVM when device WWIDs enabled in hypervisor for RHEL 9 guest

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When running any LVM commands, error seen:

    [root@localhost ~]# pvs
    Devices file PVID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjA2h last seen on /dev/sda not found.
    Devices file PVID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAwAd last seen on /dev/sdb not found.
    
  • The Following entries were present in the file /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices.


 # cat etc/lvm/devices/system.devices 
 # LVM uses devices listed in this file.
 # Created by LVM command vgs pid 1468 at Sun Jun 11 23:38:02 2023
 VERSION=1.1.10
 IDTYPE=devname IDNAME=/dev/sda DEVNAME=/dev/sda PVID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxjA2h
 IDTYPE=devname IDNAME=/dev/sdb DEVNAME=/dev/sdb PVID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAwAd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • LVM2
    • use_devicesfile=1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (default value in RHEL 9 is '1':enabled)

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