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Trident StorageClass “netapp-default” Stuck in Terminating State Blocks Provisioning

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Applies to

  • Trident
  • OpenShift / Kubernetes clusters

Issue

  • Trident was unable to provision new volumes.
  • The Trident backend was online and healthy, but no storage classes were bound to discovered pools.
  • The following errors were observed in the Trident controller logs:

time="2026-06-09T15:06:14Z" level=warning msg="K8S helper could not upsert a storage class." error="object is being deleted: tridentstorageclasses.trident.netapp.io \\"netapp-default\\" already exists" logLayer=csi_frontend name=netapp-default parameters="map[backendType:ontap-nas storagePools:<backend_name>:<aggregate_name>]" provisioner=csi.trident.netapp.io requestID=a19f88e4-f041-4f73-b25c-7830362cd482 requestSource=Kubernetes workflow="storage_class=create"

time="2026-06-09T15:06:15Z" level=info msg="Newly added backend satisfies no storage classes." backend=netapp-backend crdControllerEvent=add logLayer=core requestID=f6f4633a-36d6-4a6d-bcec-69b40d388786 requestSource=CRD workflow="cr=reconcile"

  • Kubernetes command output shows that the Trident storage class is in a Terminating state (a deletion timestamp exists with a finalizer):

$ oc get tridentstorageclass -n trident netapp-default -o yaml

apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentStorageClass
metadata:
  name: netapp-default
  deletionTimestamp: "2026-06-09T13:51:26Z"
  finalizers:
  - trident.netapp.io

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