multipath fails to create multipath device with the error : "cannot get the the wwid for sdX" on VMWARE

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Issue

multipath fails to create multipath device with the error : "cannot get the the wwid for sdX" on VMWARE

multipath -v4 shows the following errors :

multipath -v4

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/lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
cannot get the the wwid for sda

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9
  • VMware 5.1

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