OVF Import - import failed - volume deactivation failed

WookieMonster

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Hello.

I am in the process of converting our infrastructure from VMware to PVE and almost done. I'm now transferring the last bigger VMS.

Especially for one VM the following error occured the third time:

Code:
qm importovf 130 /vmwarestore/NewRepositoryServer/NewRepositoryServer.ovf san3    
WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/san3/vm-130-disk-0 at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: [n]              
  Aborted wiping of dos.                                                                                    
  Logical volume "vm-130-disk-0" created.                                                                  
  1 existing signature left on the device.                                                                  
transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 21474836480 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 0.00 %              
transferred: 214748364 bytes remaining: 21260088116 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 1.00 %      
transferred: 429496729 bytes remaining: 21045339751 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 2.00 %      
transferred: 644245094 bytes remaining: 20830591386 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 3.00 %  

[...]

transferred: 21047487234 bytes remaining: 427349246 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 98.01 %    
transferred: 21262235598 bytes remaining: 212600882 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 99.01 %    
transferred: 21474836480 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 100.00 %            
transferred: 21474836480 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 21474836480 bytes progression: 100.00 %            
WARNING: LVM2_member signature detected on /dev/san3/vm-130-disk-1 at offset 536. Wipe it? [y/n]: [n]      
  Aborted wiping of LVM2_member.                                                                            
  Logical volume "vm-130-disk-1" created.                                                                  
  1 existing signature left on the device.                                                                  
transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 1099511627776 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 0.00 %          
transferred: 10995116277 bytes remaining: 1088516511499 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 1.00 %
transferred: 21990232555 bytes remaining: 1077521395221 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 2.00 %
transferred: 32985348833 bytes remaining: 1066526278943 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 3.00 %
transferred: 43980465111 bytes remaining: 1055531162665 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 4.00 %


[...]

transferred: 1077521395220 bytes remaining: 21990232556 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 98.00 %
transferred: 1088516511498 bytes remaining: 10995116278 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 99.00 %
transferred: 1099511627776 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 100.00 %
transferred: 1099511627776 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 1099511627776 bytes progression: 100.00 %
can't deactivate LV '/dev/san3/vm-130-disk-1':   Logical volume san3/vm-130-disk-1 in use.
  Logical volume "vm-130-disk-1" successfully removed
  Logical volume "vm-130-disk-0" successfully removed
import failed - volume deactivation failed: san3:vm-130-disk-1 at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage.pm line 1152.

After failing everything is deleted. I also tried importing only the disks to a preconfigured VM, which worked for the first disk, but not for the second big one.
I migrated around 15 similar VMs (two disks) and have only seen this problem once, where a second try with another VM-ID solved the issue. This did not work for this VM.

I searched the forum and found an older issue pointing to pvs/lvs being wrongly active, but this doesn't seem to be the case here:

Code:
~# pvs
  PV               VG   Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
  /dev/mapper/san3 san3 lvm2 a--    12.72t <5.93t
  /dev/sda3        pve  lvm2 a--  <744.68g 15.99g

Code:
~# vgs
  VG   #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  pve    1   4   0 wz--n- <744.68g 15.99g
  san3   1  34   0 wz--n-   12.72t <5.93t

Code:
~# lvs -a
  LV              VG   Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  data            pve  twi-aotz-- 612.18g             2.02   0.39                          
  [data_tdata]    pve  Twi-ao---- 612.18g                                                  
  [data_tmeta]    pve  ewi-ao----   6.25g                                                  
  [lvol0_pmspare] pve  ewi-------   6.25g                                                  
  root            pve  -wi-ao----  96.00g                                                  
  swap            pve  -wi-ao----   8.00g                                                  
  vm-101-disk-0   pve  Vwi-aotz--  32.00g data        38.72                                
  vm-100-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-102-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  32.00g                                                  
  vm-103-disk-0   san3 -wi-a----- 200.00g                                                  
  vm-103-disk-1   san3 -wi-a----- 100.00g                                                  
  vm-103-disk-2   san3 -wi-a-----  35.00g                                                  
  vm-103-disk-3   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-103-disk-4   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-104-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-105-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----   1.00t                                                  
  vm-106-disk-0   san3 -wi-a----- 256.00g                                                  
  vm-107-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  10.00g                                                  
  vm-108-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-109-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  32.00g                                                  
  vm-110-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----   8.00g                                                  
  vm-111-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-112-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-113-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-114-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  16.00g                                                  
  vm-115-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-116-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-117-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao---- 500.00g                                                  
  vm-118-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao---- 100.00g                                                  
  vm-119-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-120-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-121-disk-0   san3 -wi-a----- 930.50g                                                  
  vm-121-disk-1   san3 -wi-a-----   1.00g                                                  
  vm-122-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  20.00g                                                  
  vm-122-disk-1   san3 -wi-ao----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-123-disk-0   san3 -wi-a-----  50.00g                                                  
  vm-124-disk-0   san3 -wi-ao----  30.00g                                                  
  vm-124-disk-1   san3 -wi-ao----   2.00t                                                  
  vm-125-disk-0   san3 -wi-------  20.00g                                                  
  vm-126-disk-0   san3 -wi-------  20.00g                                                  
  vm-126-disk-1   san3 -wi-------   1.00t

Version Info:

Code:
Kernel Version

Linux 5.4.73-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.4.73-1 (Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:52:16 +0100)
PVE Manager Version

pve-manager/6.3-2/22f57405

The import runs from an SSHFS mount onto a FibreChannel attached SAN storage.
 
Update: I was able to import the VM. I first copied it to another ext4/LVM partition on the SAN and imported it from there. So I think the problem either originates from the duration, which is much longer over SSHFS, or is random and I was just lucky now...
 
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