Cannot attach Virtual Disk. The disk is not shareable and is already attached to a VM.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Pods deployed on the OpenShift cluster hosted on the RHV infra failed due to volume attachment issues with the following error.
Warning  FailedAttachVolume  54s (x13 over 11m)  attachdetach-controller  AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume "pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx" : rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Fault reason is "Operation Failed". Fault detail is "[Cannot attach Virtual Disk. The disk is not shareable and is already attached to a VM.]". HTTP response code is "409". HTTP response message is "409 Conflict".

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform [RHOCP]

    • 4.x

  • Red Hat Virtualization [RHV]

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