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Trident backend "error initializing ontap-nas-economy driver"

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Applies to

  • Trident, all versions
  • ONTAP, 9.15.1+

Issue

When attempting to create a Trident Backend, the following error was encountered:


{"@timestamp":"2026-01-05T22:20:19Z","error":"error initializing ontap-nas-economy driver: could not create Data ONTAP API client: error creating ONTAP API client: error reading SVM details: Post \"https://143.182.146.62/servlets/netapp.servlets.admin.XMLrequest_filer\": EOF","level":"error","logLayer":"core","message":"Could not initialize storage driver.","requestID":"016552ef-a092-4a49-9195-ffb0acdaf845","requestSource":"Internal","workflow":"core=bootstrap"}

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