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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To whom it may concern,<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">I would like to request a string freeze exception for 2 patches that are on the merge queue for Pike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">VMAX driver - align VMAX QOS settings with front end (CI Passed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/484885/7/cinder/volume/drivers/dell_emc/vmax/rest.py" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/484885/7/cinder/volume/drivers/dell_emc/vmax/rest.py</a>
line 800 (removal of exception message)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Although it’s primary aim is to align QoS with front end setting it indirectly fixes a lazy loading error we were seeing around QoS which
occasionally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Broke CI on previous patches.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt">2.<span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>VMAX driver - seamless upgrade from SMI-S to REST (CI Pending)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18.0pt"><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/482138/19/cinder/volume/drivers/dell_emc/vmax/common.py">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/482138/19/cinder/volume/drivers/dell_emc/vmax/common.py</a> line 1400 ,1455
(message changes)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt">This is vital for as reuse of volumes from Ocata to Pike. In Ocata we used SMIS to interface with the VMAX, in Pike we are using REST. A few changes needed to be made to make this transition as seamless as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Helen<o:p></o:p></p>
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