Can't expand disk after extending the SAN LUN from storage in RHEV?

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Issue

  • I want to increase my datacenter storage but when I do the pvresize with test option it fails:
[root@localhost ~]# pvresize -tv /dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000
  TEST MODE: Metadata will NOT be updated and volumes will not be (de)activated.
    Using physical volume(s) on command line.
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Finding all volume groups.
    Test mode: Skipping archiving of volume group.
    Resizing volume "/dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000" to 4294967296 sectors.
    Resizing physical volume /dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000 from 0 to 16381 extents.
    Updating physical volume "/dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000"
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000 at offset 2198889037824
  Failed to write VG 21059d10-945d-4cc8-a694-b476fc56882d.
  Failed to store physical volume "/dev/mapper/3600c0ff000da26010f7c435601000000" in volume group "21059d10-945d-4cc8-a694-b476fc56882d"
  Use pvcreate and vgcfgrestore to repair from archived metadata.
  0 physical volume(s) resized / 1 physical volume(s) not resized
    Test mode: Wiping internal cache
    Wiping internal VG cache

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4

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