Pods stuck in ContainerCreating due to NFS timeouts
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- IPv6
- Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes) (optional)
- Trident 25.02.1 (optional)
Issue
- Multiple Kubernetes pods remain stuck in 'ContainerCreating' state due to repeated NFS timeout errors.
- Error messages observed on worker nodes include:
Warning FailedMount kubelet Unable to attach or mount volumes: timed out waiting for the conditionnfs: server 26a0:f160:ff09:f021:b1:fe0:0:3139 not responding, timed out
- The impacted NFS data LIF became unresponsive.
- LIF migration temporarily restores data access.
