PVC creation remains in "Pending" status in OpenShift 4 with vSphere CSI driver

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • The PVC creation never completes, and the following events are shown:
LAST SEEN   FIRST SEEN   COUNT     NAME                        KIND                    SUBOBJECT   TYPE      REASON                 SOURCE                                                                                 MESSAGE
1m          22h          5414      testpvc.162855a6ef200ca6   PersistentVolumeClaim               Normal    ExternalProvisioning   persistentvolume-controller                                                            waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "csi.vsphere.vmware.com" or manually created by system administrator
2m          22h          270       testpvc.162855a6ef688ee7   PersistentVolumeClaim               Normal    Provisioning           csi.vsphere.vmware.com_vsphere-csi-controller-0_93e50ffb-c680-11ea-97ec-0a580a076312   External provisioner is provisioning volume for claim "project1/testpvc"

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCP)

    • 4.x

  • VMware vSphere

    • 6.7+

  • vSphere CSI driver

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