A RHEV Storage Domain went offline after it had been extended
Issue
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Primary storage domain is offline. This occurred after attempting to add a disk to a VM. Prior to adding the disk, the storage domain had been extended.
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The extension of the storage domain appeared to be successful according to the status in the Admin Portal, however the Event Log indicated an error;
Failed to extend Storage Domain PROD_SD1
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The status of the Storage Domain in the Admin Portal is
Inactive. -
With more-recent versions of
VDSM, the vdsm logs on the SPM host will contain;
OSError: [Errno 19] Could not find dm device named `unknown device`
- With older versions of
VDSM, the vdsm logs on the SPM host will contain;
Domain is either partially accessible or entirely inaccessible
pvscanoutput will show one or moreunknown devicePVs;
PV /dev/mapper/22db8d5c7b34241426c9ce900bef5335e VG f96b201e-f9b0-4bcb-a6bf-1a5785fdfd86 lvm2 [2.00 TiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/mapper/271b9a5d86db363b96c9ce900bef5335e VG f96b201e-f9b0-4bcb-a6bf-1a5785fdfd86 lvm2 [2.00 TiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/mapper/2a0406eb08bf736d76c9ce900bef5335e VG f96b201e-f9b0-4bcb-a6bf-1a5785fdfd86 lvm2 [2.00 TiB / 1.00 GiB free]
PV unknown device VG f96b201e-f9b0-4bcb-a6bf-1a5785fdfd86 lvm2 [2.00 TiB / 2.00 TiB free]
PV /dev/mapper/2861efb3d79bca6226c9ce900bef5335e VG f96b201e-f9b0-4bcb-a6bf-1a5785fdfd86 lvm2 [2.00 TiB / 2.00 TiB free]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) 6.5
OR;
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) 6.4 20130501.0
- vdsm-4.10.2-1.13
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