Error while pvmove "Consider vgreduce --removemissing."

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Issue

  • Getting below error message while running pvmove /dev/vdc /dev/vdd1

    $ pvmove /dev/vdc /dev/vdd1
Cannot change VG VG00 while PVs are missing.
Consider vgreduce --removemissing.
You have a memory leak (not released memory pool):
[0x7f49d97b6ba0] format_instance
Internal error: Unreleased memory pool(s) found.

  • pvmove shows PVs are missing but all the disks/partitions used as PV are present on server.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • LVM2

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