Zed Series Release Notes

21.1.0

New Features

• Add new parameter cinder::backend::pure::pure_iscsi_cidr_list which allows setting of the pure_iscsi_cidr_list option on the managed cinder backend for PureStorage.

• Add support for NVMe to cinder::backend::pure_storage_protocol. Add new parameter cinder::backend::pure::pure_nvme_transport which defines the NVMe transport layer used when the NVMe driver is selected. This only supports roce at this time. Add new parameter cinder::backend::pure::pure_nvme_cidr which allows setting of the pure_nvme_cidr option on the managed cinder backend for PureStorage. Add new parameter cinder::backend::pure::pure_nvme_cidr_list which allows setting of the pure_nvme_cidr_list option on the managed cinder backend for PureStorage.

21.0.0

New Features

• The cinder::wsgi::apache class now supports customizing request/response headers added by apache.

• The cinder::backup::swift class now supports the backup_swift_service_auth parameter, which controls the [DEFAULT] backup_swift_service_auth option in cinder.conf.

• The cinder class now supports the following three new parameters.

  • image_compress_on_upload

  • image_conversion_cpu_limit

  • image_conversion_address_space_limit

• The new cinder::image_conversion_disable parameter has been added.

• Introduce a new Class cinder::backend::defaults, that provides a way to configure parameters for all cinder backends in [backend_defaults] section of cinder configuration file. This parameter use_multipath_for_image_xfer is supported currently.

• The following three parameters have been added to the cinder::scheduler::filter class.

  • capacity_weight_multiplier

  • allocated_capacity_weight_multiplier

  • volume_number_multiplier

• The cinder::backend::san defined type now supports the san_api_port parameter.

• The cinder::backend::solidfire defined type now supports the following new parameters.

  • sf_provisioning_calc

  • sf_cluster_pairing_timeout

  • sf_volume_pairing_timeout

  • sf_api_request_timeout

  • sf_volume_clone_timeout

  • sf_volume_create_timeout

• The cinder::backend::emc_vnx resource type now supports the following parameters of EMC VNX driver.

  • destroy_empty_storage_group

  • iscsi_initiators

  • io_port_list

  • initiator_auto_deregistration

  • force_delete_lun_in_storagegroup

  • ignore_pool_full_threshold

  • vnx_async_migrate

Upgrade Notes

• The following parameters of the cinder class have been removed.

  • keymgr_backend

  • keymgr_encryption_api_url

  • keymgr_encryption_auth_url

• The following parameters of the cinder::backend::netapp defined resource type have been removed.

  • netapp_vfiler

  • netapp_partner_backend_name

  • netapp_webservice_path

  • netapp_controller_ips

  • netapp_sa_password

• Default value of the cinder::wsgi::apache::ssl parameter has been changed from true to false and now ssl is disabled by default.

• The cinder::backend_host parameter has been removed. Use the cinder::backends::backend_host parameter instead.

• CentOS 8 Stream is no longer supported by this module.

• The cinder::api::os_region_name parameter has been removed.

• The cinder::qos defined resource type has been removed.

• The cinder::enable_v3_api parameter has been removed.

• The following deprecated parameters of the cinder::backend::solidfire defined resource type have been removed.

  • sf_template_account_name

  • sf_allow_template_caching

• The cinder::backends::vmdk::volume_foler parameter and the cinder::backends::vmdk::task_poll_interval parameter now default to the service default values. Make sure these parameters are set if the previous default value should be used.

Deprecation Notes

• The cinder::backend::nfs_disk_util parameter has been deprecated and has no effect. This parameter has had no effect since Havana release.

Bug Fixes

• Bug #1986518: The cinder::backend::iscsi defined resource type now modifies the /etc/tgt/targets.conf file in Ubuntu and Debian, so that cinder can set up iscsi targets correctly.