cinder/releasenotes/notes/bp-netapp-flexgroup-support-c462fca33f0d8906.yaml
Felipe Rodrigues bb444d4a47 Follow up NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup feature
It is a follow up to the patch [1], providing the fixes:

1. Check the ONTAP storage version for the FlexGroup feature.
The feature is only accepted whether the ONTAP is 9.8 or greater.

2. Remove multiattach support for flexgroup pools.

3. Start bumping the driver version with its documentation.

4. Update the flexgroup release notes.

[1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/776713

Change-Id: I0636b6530a79f8ca86db52f87273ec822c3cb406
2021-03-22 19:02:30 +00:00

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features:
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NetApp ONTAP driver: added support for FlexGroup pool using the NFS
mode. There are several considerations for using the driver with it:
1. The FlexGroup pool is only supported using ONTAP storage 9.8 or greater.
2. The FlexGroup pool has a different view of aggregate capabilites,
changing them by a list of elements, instead of a single element. They
are ``netapp_aggregate``, ``netapp_raid_type``, ``netapp_disk_type`` and
``netapp_hybrid_aggregate``. The ``netapp_aggregate_used_percent``
capability is an average of used percent of all FlexGroup's aggregates.
3. The ``utilization`` capability is not calculated to FlexGroup pools, it is
always set to default of 50.
4. The driver cannot support consistency group with volumes that are over
FlexGroup pools.
5. The driver cannot support multi-attach with volumes that are over
FlexGroup pools.
6. For volumes over the FlexGroup pool, the operations of clone volume,
create snapshot and create volume from an image are implemented as the NFS
generic driver. Hence, it does not rely on the ONTAP storage to perform
those operations.
7. A driver with FlexGroup pools has snapshot support disabled by default. To
enable, you must set ``nfs_snapshot_support`` to true in the backend's configuration
section of the cinder configuration file.
8. The driver image cache is not applied for volumes over FlexGroup pools.
It can use the core image cache for avoiding downloading twice, though.
9. Given that the FlexGroup pool may be on several cluster nodes, the QoS minimum
support is only enabled if all nodes support it.