CSM: CSI Driver for PowerFlex CrashLoopBackOff due to Gateway Login Timeout

Driver logs show a 1 second timeout:

time="2026-05-15T17:14:29Z" level=info msg="Login to PowerFlex Gateway, system=<array id>, endpoint=https://<gateway>, user=<user>\n"
time="2026-05-15T17:14:30Z" level=error msg="array <array id> probe failed: rpc error: code = FailedPrecondition desc = unable to login to PowerFlex Gateway: Get \"https://<gateway>/api/login\": context deadline exceeded"

Pods can show in a CrashLoopBackOff or Error state.

oc get pods -n vxflexos
...
vxflexos-node-xxxxx                   1/2     Error              442 (5m22s ago)   19h
vxflexos-node-xxxxx                   0/2     CrashLoopBackOff   431 (103s ago)    18h

Recent changes may include upgrade, network latency, gateway performance issues, or cluster scaling.

The CSI Driver for PowerFlex driver versions 2.13.1 and 2.14.0 use a nonconfigurable probe timeout. The login call to the PowerFlex Gateway exceeds this timeout.

Engineering has provided a change to make the probe timeout configurable in later releases of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerFlex. Upgrade to a release where the probe timeout is configurable.

Per the release notes, this issue is fixed in the following versions:
https://github.com/dell/csi-powerflex/releases (External Link)

• 2.13.2
• 2.14.1
• 2.15.0 or later
• 2.16.0 or later

After upgrade, configure the probe timeout X_CSI_PROBE_TIMEOUT per the environment needs. The default is now set to 10 seconds.