Install trident for EKS cluster with backend volume on cloud ontap

AppD — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:39:22 GMT

Getting error while trying to install trident with backend volume as ontap cloud(AWS).

Steps

- Create a volume on ontap-cloud cluster

- added info to setup/backend.json

- executed installer's dry run

Error

ATA Install failed; could not start the storage backend driver; 
problem initializing storage driver 'ontap-nas': 
error initializing ontap-nas driver: could not create Data ONTAP API client: 
error reading SVM details: API status: failed, Reason: Specified vserver not found, Code: 15698.

My backend.json looks like this

{
    "version": 1,
    "storageDriverName": "ontap-nas",
    "backendName": "trident_ontap_vol",#gave a unique name
    "managementLIF": "x.x.x.x",# cluster management ip
    "dataLIF": "x.x.x.x",#data node ip which is the same as the mount ip for volume
    "svm": "trident_svm", # left the default, what should be the value here?
    "username": "xxxx",
    "password": "xxxx"
}

Re: Install trident for EKS cluster with backend volume on cloud ontap

AppD — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 21:06:52 GMT

Never mind, realized my svm name was wrong and found the same info on cloud mgr.

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Install trident for EKS cluster with backend volume on cloud ontap

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