Pod events showing 'volume attachment is being deleted' with vmware pvs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After running a pod, it is stuck on ContainerCreating, Pending, or Init status.
  • The volumes of the pod are failing to be attached returning the following message:
   MountVolume.WaitForAttach failed for volume "pvc-2asqw479-f9e7-4cd3-acec-wxj2e6u5v9l8" : volume attachment is being deleted
  • The vSphere CSI driver is returning the "Could not construct volume information, cleaning up mounts" error:
   "Could not construct volume information, cleaning up mounts" podName=27c48f30-c695-4663-b31b-f4ba2d4f4895 volumeSpecName="pvc-2asqw479-f9e7-4cd3-acec-wxj2e6u5v9l8" err="could not check whether the volume \"kubernetes.io/csi/csi.vsphere.vmware.com^2asqw479-f9e7-4cd3-acec-wxj2e6u5v9l8\" (spec.Name: \"pvc-2asqw479-f9e7-4cd3-acec-wxj2e6u5v9l8\") pod \"27c48f30-c695-4663-b31b-f4ba2d4f4895\" (UID: \"27c48f30-c695-4663-b31b-f4ba2d4f4895\") is mounted with: stat /var/lib/kubelet/pods/27c48f30-c695-4663-b31b-f4ba2d4f4895/volumes/kubernetes.io~csi/pvc-2asqw479-f9e7-4cd3-acec-wxj2e6u5v9l8/mount: no such file or directory

ODF:

87s         Warning   FailedAttachVolume       pod/rook-ceph-osd-0-84f46945b-bjnrm               AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume "pvc-9e7d59fe-c7fc-4aa8-8305-bfcdc239d8bc" : volume attachment is being deleted

Environment

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) v4.x
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundations (RHODF) v4.x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (RHOCS) v4.x
VMware vSphere

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