FailedAttachVolume: Invalid configuration for device '0' in OCP 4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There are events in the project that the pod can not start with the following message:
2020-11-23T08:15:50.122833856Z I1123 08:15:50.122794       1 event.go:278] Event(v1.ObjectReference{Kind:"Pod", Namespace:"test-namespace", Name:"testapp-1-xxxxx", UID:"ba8b8da6-c736-4e9e-aa86-ecb9d402e3fb", APIVersion:"v1", ResourceVersion:"215143534", FieldPath:""}): type: 'Warning' reason: 'FailedAttachVolume' AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume "pvc-xxxxxxxx" : Invalid configuration for device '0'.
  • Alerts that contain the message Invalid configuration for device '0' are also showing in the vSphere platform.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)

    • 4.x
  • VMware vSphere

    • 6.5 and later

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