SR-IOV Workload Pod stuck at init status with VF load error

Below error can be seen within project event log
SRIOV-CNI failed to load netconf: LoadConf(): the VF 0000:1a:01.3 does not have a interface name or a dpdk driver

They are using a supported NIC & i see all the VF(s) are up.
$ lspci | grep "Eth"
18:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP [8086:1593] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXV-4 [8086:0007]
    Physical Slot: 1Also, the virtual functions are up
$ ip link -s -d
6: ens2f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether b4:96:91:b1:e7:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 1 minmtu 68 maxmtu 9702 addrgenmode none numtxqueues 64 numrxqueues 64 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535 
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast   
    57427281960 453943461 0       441285403 0       134863  
    TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns 
    13224340495 15166893 0       0       0       0       
    vf 0     link/ether fa:d2:81:db:cd:52 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, vlan 1611, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    19322      195      31      0       0        
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    164014014  200163   0        
    vf 1     link/ether 7e:96:f9:a7:49:6d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, vlan 1611, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    282242     1895     31      0       0        
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    244874     1489     0        
    vf 2     link/ether 22:96:d5:0b:0d:f1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    273095     823      0       817     823      
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    0          0        0        
    vf 3     link/ether de:5e:9a:b6:8c:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    350059     1057     0       1046    1057     
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    0          0        0        
    vf 4     link/ether f6:79:52:28:d4:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    1932437    5796     0       5791    5796     
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    0          0        0        
    vf 5     link/ether ba:c2:14:23:80:73 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, vlan 1600, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    1227516    5752     35      0       0        
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    9186992    9905     0        
    vf 6     link/ether 8a:58:43:cc:81:6f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    274563     833      0       818     833      
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    0          0        0        
    vf 7     link/ether e6:cd:a1:27:9a:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    RX: bytes  packets  mcast   bcast   dropped 
    2050306    6155     0       6131    6155     
    TX: bytes  packets   dropped 
    0          0        0        

OCP v4.9

Telco Customer is facing this within their lab environment

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Pods aren't scheduled with the error

Warning  FailedCreatePodSandBox  2m21s (x2396 over 11h)  kubelet  (combined from similar events): Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to create pod network sandbox k8s_eric-ran-du-baseband-5c48f4b75f-w8q5z_welktxfe-00000001vzwcvdu-y-ec-x-00000000012_fb302b03-9766-4403-a67f-cd0f74668699_0(595bbbbbd4a0ffeafb128a61db6acf7397c30b6338b31ff106fe1b1ecc304558): error adding pod welktxfe-00000001vzwcvdu-y-ec-x-00000000012_eric-ran-du-baseband-5c48f4b75f-w8q5z to CNI network "multus-cni-network": [welktxfe-00000001vzwcvdu-y-ec-x-00000000012/eric-ran-du-baseband-5c48f4b75f-w8q5z/fb302b03-9766-4403-a67f-cd0f74668699:networking-f1u]: error adding container to network "networking-f1u": SRIOV-CNI failed to load netconf: LoadConf(): the VF 0000:1a:01.3 does not have a interface name or a dpdk driver

Pods should be assigned an net1 interface