cinder/releasenotes/notes/brocade-fczm-driver-victoria-2b80055ca328f31c.yaml
Brian Rosmaita ee2c56d7dc Add release note about Brocade FCZM driver status
This is going directly to stable/victoria (not a backport).

Change-Id: Ib0dadd9e0c34af167becc4ac5cc2b4dbf18639ff
2020-10-05 09:07:32 -04:00

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---
issues:
- |
The Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Manager driver was marked 'unsupported' in
the Ussuri release because the vendor declined to support Python 3,
whereas all OpenStack releases beginning with Ussuri support Python 3 only.
In order to provide operators with a choice of FCZM drivers, the Cinder
community decided to continue supporting the Brocade FCZM driver on a
best-effort basis. See the "Bug Fixes" section of these notes for
changes made to allow the driver to run in a Python 3 environment.
While the driver has been tested against the first Release Candidate for
the cinder Victoria release, be aware that it does not have ongoing
third-party CI. If you choose to use the driver, the configuration
option ``enable_unsupported_driver`` must be set to ``True`` in the
``fc-zone-manager`` section in cinder.conf to allow its use in this
release.
upgrade:
- |
The Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Manager driver was marked 'unsupported' in
the Ussuri release, and it continues as 'unsupported' in this release.
If you choose to use the driver, the configuration option
``enable_unsupported_driver`` must be set to ``True`` in the
``fc-zone-manager`` section in cinder.conf to allow its use.
other:
- |
In order to provide operators with a choice of Fibre Channel Zone Manager
drivers, the Cinder community has decided to continue supporting the
Brocade FCZM driver, which was marked 'unsupported' in the Ussuri release,
on a best-effort basis.
The driver has been tested against the first Release Candidate for
the cinder Victoria release, but it does not have ongoing third-party CI.
If you use this driver, and would be interested in running third-party
CI for it, please contact the Cinder project team.