VG not activating due to missing PV with error " Cannot restore Volume Group with 1 PVs marked as missing."

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Issue

  • Volume Group is not activating due to missing PV.
  # vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/archive/testvg_011.vg testvg
  Couldn't find device with uuid xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx.
  Cannot restore Volume Group testvg with 1 PVs marked as missing.
  Restore failed.
  • Disk not present under pvs output and unable to activate the VG as well.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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