VMware guest looses access to one or more LVM when device WWIDs enabled in hypervisor
Issue
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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 8, 9, 10
- LVM2 with use_devicesfile enabled
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