pvcreate is giving me an error 'Device /dev/emcpowera not found (or ignored by filtering)'
Issue
pvcreateis giving me an error message 'Device /dev/emcpowera not found (or ignored by filtering)'.
[root@server002 ~]# pvcreate --uuid bzPp9D-9jus-Ncr5-kkhG-geKZ-Gg7l-PpKgSQ /dev/emcpowera
Device /dev/emcpowera not found (or ignored by filtering).
- I have tried to restore the VG config, but here is the error.
[root@server002 backup]# pvcreate --restorefile vg02 --uuid bzPp9D-9jus-Ncr5-kkhG-geKZ-Gg7l-PpKgSQ /dev/emcpowera
Couldn't find device with uuid 'bzPp9D-9jus-Ncr5-kkhG-geKZ-Gg7l-PpKgSQ'.
Device /dev/emcpowera not found (or ignored by filtering).
- Device appears to be active
[root@server002 tmp]# powermt display dev=emcpowera
Pseudo name=emcpowera
Symmetrix ID=000190101334
Logical device ID=0B78
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=0
==============================================================================
---------------- Host --------------- - Stor - -- I/O Path - -- Stats ---
### HW Path I/O Paths Interf. Mode State Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
3 lpfc sdal FA 9aA active alive 0 0
1 lpfc sdt FA 8aA active alive 0 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- LVM
- EMC SAN
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