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NetApp Trident Unable to create PV after SVM migration

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Applies to

NetApp Astra Trident

Issue

After migration of SVM either unable to create new PVs with the following error:
 
Normal Provisioning 21s (x3 over 29s) csi.trident.netapp.io_trident-csi External provisioner is provisioning volume for claim "default/test-storage"
Normal ProvisioningFailed 21s (x3 over 29s) csi.trident.netapp.io no available backends for storage class app
Warning ProvisioningFailed 21s (x3 over 29s) csi.trident.netapp.io_trident-csi failed to provision volume with StorageClass "Trident": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = no available backends for storage class app
Normal ExternalProvisioning 7s (x3 over 29s) persistentvolume-controller waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "csi.trident.netapp.io" or manually created by system administrator
 
Or new PVs are still created on the previous aggregates, if they are still available.

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