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Merge "[config-ref] Call out deprecation of NetApp 7-mode driver"

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@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ accessing and storing data using the storage protocol on the storage
family system. The NetApp unified driver is an extensible interface
that can support new storage families and protocols.
.. important::
The NetApp unified driver in cinder currently provides integration for
two major generations of the ONTAP operating system: the current
clustered ONTAP and the legacy 7-mode. NetApp’s full support for
7-mode ended in August of 2015 and the current limited support period
will end in February of 2017.
The 7-mode components of the cinder NetApp unified driver have now been
marked deprecated and will be removed in the Queens release. This will
apply to all three protocols currently supported in this driver: iSCSI,
FC and NFS.
.. note::
With the Juno release of OpenStack, Block Storage has
@ -326,6 +339,11 @@ as such does not require any additional management software to achieve the
desired functionality. It uses NetApp ONTAPI to interact with the Data ONTAP
operating in 7-Mode storage system.
.. important::
Support for 7-mode configuration has been deprecated in the Ocata release
and will be removed in the Queens release of OpenStack.
**Configuration options**
Configure the volume driver, storage family, and storage protocol to the NetApp