Bug 2060154

Summary:	[Docs] Add "Deprecated functionality" section (with statement) to 5.1 (GA) Release Notes
Product:	[Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Ceph Storage	Reporter:	khartsoe <khartsoe>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Ranjini M N <rmandyam>
Documentation sub component:	Release Notes	QA Contact:	Veera Raghava Reddy <vereddy>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	Docs Contact:
Severity:	high
Priority:	unspecified	CC:	rmandyam
Version:	5.1
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Description khartsoe@redhat.com 2022-03-02 20:38:38 UTC

Describe the issue:
The storage product team will deprecate iSCSI and NFS as a way to prevent deals outside of the core focus area.

Describe the task you were trying to accomplish:
N/A

Suggestions for improvement:
Inform customers that deprecated functionality will likely not be supported in future major releases of RHCS and is not recommended for new deployments.

Document URL:
RHCS 5.1 (GA) Release Notes

Chapter/Section Number and Title:
Add a new "Deprecated functionality" section to the RHCS 5.1 (GA) Release Notes.

Product Version:
5.1 (GA)

Environment Details:
N/A

Any other versions of this document that also needs this update:
Yes but will be tracked via separate doc BZ.

Additional information:
Add the following statement to the new "Deprecated functionality" section in the RHCS 5.1 (GA) Release Notes:

"Deprecated functionality continues to be supported until the end of life of Red Hat Ceph Storage 5. Deprecated functionality will likely not be supported in future major releases of this product and is not recommended for new deployments. For the most recent list of deprecated functionality within a particular major release, refer to the latest version of release documentation."

Example: RHEL 9 Beta
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9-beta/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2022-03-02 20:38:43 UTC

Please specify the severity of this bug. Severity is defined here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity.

Comment 6 khartsoe@redhat.com 2022-03-15 14:42:55 UTC

Please ensure the following two statements are listed as the first two entries in "5. Deprecated functionality" section:

NFS support for CephFS is now deprecated

NFS support for CephFS is now deprecated in favor of upcoming NFS availability in OpenShift Data Foundation. Red Hat Ceph Storage support for NFS in OpenStack Manila is not affected. Deprecated functionality will receive only bug fixes for the lifetime of the current release, and may be removed in future releases. Relevant documentation around this technology is identified as "Limited Availability." 


iSCSi support is now deprecated

iSCSi support is now deprecated in favor of future NVMEoF support. Deprecated functionality will receive only bug fixes for the lifetime of the current release, and may be removed in future releases. Relevant documentation around this technology is identified as "Limited Availability."