vSphere cloud provider fails to attach a volume due to Unable to find VM by UUID

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We are seeing the following message in our logs and are not able to attach volumes in our OpenShift environment on VMware.
Cannot find node "master" in cache. 
AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume
"[datacenter.go:78] Unable to find VM by UUID. VM UUID: VOLUME_UUID"
Kubernetes node nodeVmDetail details is empty

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform
    • 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9
  • VMware ESXi and VSphere 6.5

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