Updating the release notes for PowerFlex Driver Rebrand
This release note update is a follow up to the review
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upgrade:
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- Dell EMC VxFlex OS has been rebranded to PowerFlex. The drivers
+ Dell EMC VxFlex OS has been rebranded to PowerFlex. The driver
``cinder.volume.drivers.dell_emc.vxflexos.driver.VxFlexOSDriver``
- will now be updated to
- ``cinder.volume.drivers.dell_emc.powerflex.driver.PowerFlexDriver``
- in cinder.conf. Driver configuration options that start with ``vxflexos``
- should also be updated to ``powerflex``. Existing vxFlex OS configuration
- options will continue to work but will be removed in the W release.
- The previously deprecated driver
- ``cinder.volume.drivers.dell_emc.scaleio.driver.ScaleIODriver``
- and the corresponding sio options will now be removed.
- Online documentation will also change to reflect these changes.
+ has been renamed to
+ ``cinder.volume.drivers.dell_emc.powerflex.driver.PowerFlexDriver``.
+ Although in this release the volume manager will recognize the old
+ driver name, that functionality will be removed in the Wallaby
+ release, and thus we recommend that you update the driver name in
+ ``cinder.conf`` at your earliest convenience.
+
+ Existing vxFlex OS configuration options will continue to work in this
+ release, but this functionality will be removed in the Wallaby release.
+ Thus all driver configuration options that start with ``vxflexos``
+ should be updated to ``powerflex`` in your ``cinder.conf`` as soon
+ as possible.
+
+ Before the Rocky release, this driver was named
+ ``cinder.volume.drivers.dell_emc.scaleio.driver.ScaleIODriver``.
+ That name was deprecated in the Rocky release. In this release,
+ the pre-Rocky name for this driver is no longer recognized and
+ support for configuration options beginning with ``sio`` has been
+ removed.
+
+ The online documentation has been updated to reflect these changes.
