LVM metadata corruption when rgmanger starts at the same time on multiple nodes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated 2018-06-21T15:28:38+00:00 -

Issue

RHCS: Checksum error occurs on HA-LVM
We modified the cluster.conf manually and loaded the configuration, but the cluster service didn't start up again and it logged checksum error of LVM header on the shared disk.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 (with Cluster Suite Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
Red Hat High Availability Cluster with 2 or more nodes.
Rgmanager cluster service manager
- Tagging-variant HA-LVM resource managed by rgmanager.
- Issue occurs when rgmanager is started at exactly the same time on 2 or more nodes.

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