RHEL9 lvm2 cannot find imported VG physical volumes.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • RHEL 9 was installed onto the server, not upgraded, and when we tried to import foreign VG’s, while the physical volumes for the VG's are present in lsblk and lsscsi they are not found by LVM2.
  • pvscan --cache reports excluded by devices file (checking PVID).

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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