How to activate LVM volume groups on iSCSI, FCoE and nvme-over TCP during bootup in RHEL
Issue
- When setting up LVM volume group on the partition provided via iSCSI, FCoE and nvme-over TCP, volume group can't be activated during boot time since the partition is not visible until the underlying network-dependent storage services are initialized.
- Is it possible to activate LVM volume group on iSCSI, FCoE and nvme-over TCP during the system bootup?
- I cannot see
/dev/mapper/<volgroup>after I reboot. - One of the servers is not booting up and going into maintenance mode.
- The logs show
Timed out waiting for devicemessages:
[ OK ] Mounted /boot
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-sda1.device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed /var/lib/ceph
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Relabel all filesystems, if necessary.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Mark the need to relabel after reboot.
- Logical Volume not activated during startup
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- iSCSI, FCoE and nvme-over TCP device(s) being used as LVM physical volume(s)
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