VM failed to start with error "Input/Output error" on KVM

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Issue

  • VM failed to start with below error:
Error starting domain: cannot read header '/dev/IXXxxXXcKVMxcdd3_StoragePool/IxxXXxxxx_App': Input/output error
  • LV snapshot which is used as VM disk is 100% full and marked as Invalid.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • KVM

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