Not able to create LV with error "Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it " in cluster setup

Error :

I can not create LV. It was giving below error message.

lvcreate -n LVScalix01b -L 900G VGScalix01b 
Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it.

• The said error usually comes up when there is a 'volume_list' defined in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and the 'volume_list' defined tag was not added to the VG on which we were trying to create the logical volume.

• If /etc/lvm/lvm.conf has below entries:

# If volume_list is defined, each LV is only activated if there is a
# match against the list.
#   "vgname" and "vgname/lvname" are matched exactly.
#   "@tag" matches any tag set in the LV or VG.
#   "@*" matches if any tag defined on the host is also set in the LV or VG
#
# volume_list = [ "vg1", "vg2/lvol1", "@tag1", "@*" ]
volume_list = [ "vg00", "@node1.example.com" ]

• Adding proper tag to the subjected VG or using the directive '--addtag @<tag-name>' along with the 'lvcreate' command should resolve the issue.

Resolution :

1. How to check the current tag on the VG where we can not create LV.

# vgs -o +vg_tags

2. If this particular volume group does not have this tag , try adding the tag to this VG and try to create LV. The command below can be used to add tag to the VG.

# vgchange --addtag <Tag> <Volume Group Name>

Here tag can be "node1.example.com" and volume group can be "VGScalix01b".

3. Now check if the VG has the proper tag set, with the command :

#vgs -o +vg_tags

4. If it has the proper tag , try to create an LV on this VG.

# lvcreate -n LVScalix01b -L 900G VGScalix01b

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