v6.2.5.032 (January 18th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.5.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added ssh port 22 to network connectivity checker tests. [ QSTOR-10092 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix bug where ceph monitor daemon is disabled. [ QSTOR-10095 ]

  • Added script to setup Ceph multi-site replication. [ QSTOR-10075 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli version to 007.2705.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10072 ]

  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-10036 ]

  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-9825 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated Linux Kernel to 5.15.0-91-generic for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]

  • Linux Kernel 5.15.0-91-generic includes fixes for NFS v3 lockd that would cause file handles to be left open for NFSv3 clients when attempting to stop the nfs server before ZFS pool export during HA failover. [ QSTOR-10025 ]

  • Updated ZFS to 2.1.14.qs25 for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]

Multitenancy

  • Fix an issue with missing Service Configs. [ QSTOR-10079 ]

  • Add the ability to sync nested shares when parent share is selected in Resilio. Optionally skip changing the share permissions when user is specified in the config file. [ QSTOR-10070 ]

Network Shares

  • Block rename of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10091 ]

  • Add the ability to enable and clone a GMT snapshot [ QSTOR-4145 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue where Remote Replication Schedules can fail if 2 source snapshots have the same created timestamp. [ QSTOR-10059 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with File Age settings in the Backup Schedule Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10056 ]

  • Properly transition a Replication task and Replication Report to the 'failed' status if the source system loses power during the Replication. [ QSTOR-10041 ]

  • Add a warning if checkpoint is selected in create snapshot schedule. [ QSTOR-10038 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with zfs storage volumes being correctly marked as missing if the underlying zfs zvol or snapshot is removed or unavailable. [ QSTOR-10086 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a --password option to the qs\_install.sh script to allow users to provide the QuantaStor admin user password as well as the same password for the default qadmin shell account. [ QSTOR-10085 ]

Web Manager

  • Clear the replica summary graph when there are no report entries. [ QSTOR-10057 ]

  • Fix enclosure graph rendering issue where a selected system with multiple valid controllers was not being render because of one underlying MD BOOT Controller. [ QSTOR-10055 ]

v6.2.3.045 (December 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.3.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Add a Storage System Connectivity checker dialog to the Storage System's menu items. A scan will verify network connectivity from/to other Storage Systems and all connected clients to ensure proper configuration of network routes and use of jumbo frames. [ QSTOR-10000 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Create Ceph Members up front and after the cluster has been created in the overall create cluster process. [ QSTOR-10040 ]

  • Set the default ceph config value mon\_osd\_min\_down\_reporters to 2. [ QSTOR-9991 ]

  • Fix issue where CephFS share mutli-delete showed symlink errors in log file and WUI via event updates. [ QSTOR-9963 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the ceph.conf file after adding and removing monitors. [ QSTOR-9955 ]

  • Make use the monmap and update the 'mon host' key value pair in the ceph.conf for new monitors versus the previous implementation that uses its own stanza. [ QSTOR-9945 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed correlation delay issue related to newly-created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9993 ]

  • Added logic to ensure write-through cache mode is enabled on SAS and SATA HDDs. [ QSTOR-9989 ]

  • Fixed a delay in the correlation between newly-created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9985 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Supports discovery of the SupremeRAID SR-1000 GRaid card [ QSTOR-9930 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with QuantaStor storage pool object caching just after HA failover completes. [ QSTOR-10032 ]

  • Fixed bug which allowed disks which do not support multipath to be added to HA pools [ QSTOR-10009 ]

  • Added a check to ensure the samba nmbd service is started on HA pool failover. [ QSTOR-9943 ]

  • Added logic to detect and close open file handles for third party software or utilities during HA pool export. [ QSTOR-9939 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Set default Cloud Container Cache size to 8GB from unlimited. [ QSTOR-10024 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Improvements made to the netplan conversion feature. [ QSTOR-10003 ]

  • Added a check to the modify storage system and modify grid network settings dialogs that at least one DNS server is configured. [ QSTOR-9988 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue when multi-deleting multiple shares and one or more shares failed to delete if they were in use. NFS exports rules for the correctly deleted shares are now properly removed. [ QSTOR-9910 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with manual triggered replication schedules running again on a node that was previously offline once it is powered on again. [ QSTOR-10042 ]

  • Added logic to help ensure N-way and cascading replication retain the delta snapshots needed for incremental replication in the event a node in the chain is powered off. [ QSTOR-10029 ]

  • Fixed an issue with remote replication report cleanup for HA configurations. [ QSTOR-10018 ]

  • Fixed an issue with enabling Snapshots. [ QSTOR-10011 ]

  • Fixed an issue with cascading Replication Schedules when one system is turned off for a period of time. [ QSTOR-9946 ]

  • Added support for zfs replication resume in the event a replication task is interrupted midflight. Replication is resumed using the ZFS send/recv resume token on the next schedule trigger. [ QSTOR-7639 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with upgrades from legacy bionic set ups. [ QSTOR-10005 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the aptoffline iso repo and qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-9947 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Quincy upgrades up to version 17.2.6. [ QSTOR-9742 ]

v6.2.1.080 (November 15th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.1.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fix a minor issue with USB device alert. [ QSTOR-9980 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Minor fix to OSD count in OSD multi-delete dialog [ QSTOR-9973 ]

  • Ensure the S3 User progress bar updates during batch deletes. [ QSTOR-9962 ]

  • Fixed default Ceph admin mds caps 'allow \*' [ QSTOR-9899 ]

  • Upgraded AWS cli used for Ceph Scale-out Object Storage. [ QSTOR-9872 ]

  • Change the order in which we create Ceph monitors during the Ceph creation process to eliminate a Ceph MON crash. [ QSTOR-9530 ]

Disk Management

  • Added further checks for detecting failing disk errors for disk drives that do not fully support or implement SMART health checks / self tests. [ QSTOR-9874 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with Controller discovery for SMC3616 HBAs when it is the only HBA in the system. [ QSTOR-9981 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the disk temperature alert threshold initializing with random value. [ QSTOR-9950 ]

  • Added support for AIC SB202-A6 server enclosures. [ QSTOR-9938 ]

  • Fixed issue with correlation between freshly created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9916 ]

  • Added more External System Profiles. [ QSTOR-9882 ]

  • Fixed issue with correlation between freshly created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9555 ]

  • Add SSG-6049SP-DE2CR90 to the WUI's server and enclosure view. [ QSTOR-9498 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Block HA-group rename if there is an active HA interface. [ QSTOR-9966 ]

  • Clarified task error message when attempting to trigger a manual failover on a storage pool with a deactivated HA failover group that has HA VIFs. Deactivated HA groups that have HA VIFs are intentionally not allowed to failover. [ QSTOR-9876 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes bug where systemd-resolved service was being restarted periodically. [ QSTOR-9972 ]

  • Add 'Grid Preferred Port Overrides' ability to qs-util. [ QSTOR-9903 ]

  • Fixed storage system filtering for some qs network-port- related CLI commands. [ QSTOR-9822 ]

  • Fixed an issue with creating additional bonded interfaces if you had multiple existing vlans ontop of a bonded inetrface. [ QSTOR-9798 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix rare disconnects for NFS clients. [ QSTOR-9902 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed the Disk size column in the qs disk-list cli output. [ QSTOR-8968 ]

  • Added a storage system filter option to the qs cli share-file-lock-list command. [ QSTOR-5494 ]

REST API

  • Fixed an issue with optional flags for the qstorapi server. [ QSTOR-9893 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix an issue with remote replication when source is a HA pool. [ QSTOR-9932 ]

  • Fix Network Share and Storage Volume rollback [ QSTOR-9915 ]

  • Fix regression in replication of nested Network Shares [ QSTOR-9898 ]

  • Implemented file purge from source share during 'move' Backup Policy where the destination is a Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-9885 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB. [ QSTOR-9969 ]

Security

  • Added support for Linux swap.img file LUKS encryption. [ QSTOR-9977 ]

  • Enable OTP support for AD users. [ QSTOR-9968 ]

  • Fix MFA login issue on bionic platforms. [ QSTOR-9958 ]

  • Updated ruby-rack package for Ubuntu USN-5910-1 notice [ QSTOR-9889 ]

Service Core

  • Eliminate log spam when share snapshots are created outside of QuantaStor using ZFS commands. [ QSTOR-9933 ]

  • Add the ability to view client connections via the WEB UI. [ QSTOR-9890 ]

  • Increment the task progress bar when formatting multiple disks. [ QSTOR-8446 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fix an issue with delete storage pool blocked by iSCSI session on a different pool. [ QSTOR-9956 ]

  • Added support for replacing a faulted drive on an encrypted pool. [ QSTOR-9927 ]

  • Fix issue where exported DRAID pools were not being detected after a scan when trying to import them back into QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-9868 ]

  • Inform the user if the iscsi adapter resources are in use and the force flag is not set during the delete operation. [ QSTOR-7563 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Improved qs-upgrade output to better detail only packages changed during upgrades. [ QSTOR-9978 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the qs-upgrade script timing out and failing to continue upgrades with unstable DNS / repo servers. [ QSTOR-9920 ]

  • Improved the dist-upgrade script so that we keep the ceph version the same after completion of the dist-upgrade. [ QSTOR-9917 ]

  • Resolved some small upgrade issues with RedHat platform upgrades. [ QSTOR-9897 ]

Web Manager

  • Ensure the "Disable NFS snapshot browsing of .zfs/.snap folder" in the share create dialog's advanced tab is initialized to unchecked when changing pools/context within the dialog. [ QSTOR-9971 ]

  • Fix minor issue in the WUI where the Modify Storage System dialog initialized the Vendor combo box incorrectly if the Storage System at-hand had an empty enclosureLayoutId property. [ QSTOR-9970 ]

  • Ensures that tertiary system field set is grayed out properly. [ QSTOR-9957 ]

  • Add an 'IPMI IP Address' column to the 'System Information' tab with a hyper link for easy access. [ QSTOR-9944 ]

v6.2.0.302 (September 26th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.0.

Release Highlights

Security

  • Added support for Google / OTP 2FA [ QSTOR-9471 ]

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixed a warning in the config analyzer for the ECC System Memory check on some older system models. [ QSTOR-9847 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Prevent .mgr pool from getting deleted. [ QSTOR-9824 ]

  • Hide .mgr ceph pools by default from the QuantaStor UI [ QSTOR-9816 ]

  • Add the ability to discover Ceph client keyrings for multiple share targets. Fix an issue where the first client key ring would not appear in the central grid via event processing. [ QSTOR-9719 ]

  • Increased min size to 2 for replica-3 Scale-out Object Storage pools. [ QSTOR-9667 ]

  • Provided warning if Ceph daemon versions are mismatched. [ QSTOR-9639 ]

  • Block creating a Ceph Cluster of nodes with mismatching Ceph versions. Also block adding a Ceph Cluster member to an existing Ceph Cluster if the node has mismatching Ceph versions. [ QSTOR-9578 ]

  • Enabled Signature V4 using HA Proxy for RGW instances. [ QSTOR-9342 ]

  • Adds support for Veeam SOSAPI for S3 compatible bucket repositories. [ QSTOR-9341 ]

  • Updated Default Ceph version for new deployments to Quincy [ QSTOR-9098 ]

  • Added checks before deleting Ceph daemons or restarting a storage system that has Ceph daemons running to verify daemons are ok to stop. Support for Force flag on storage system shutdown and restart dialogs. [ QSTOR-8911 ]

  • Adds total bucket count and used space for S3 tenants and S3 users for charge-back accounting [ QSTOR-5807 ]

  • Updates default metadata pool min replica count to 2 and increases max to 4 on pools using EC M>=3 [ QSTOR-5807 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed: the Config Analyzer will no longer flag VIF's with a warning as being a IP on the same subnet as other interfaces. It is correct and intentional for VIFs to be on the same subnet as the parent Network interface. [ QSTOR-9840 ]

Disk Management

  • Added logic to check for TUR errors in smartctl for drives that do not properly mark that as a failed SMART status. [ QSTOR-9782 ]

  • Added logic to update physical disk status to warning state for drives that have 0B capacity and are also reported as faulty at the Hardware Controllers and Enclosures level. [ QSTOR-4059 ]

  • When managing physical disks, those disks that are "Available" but contain existing partitions, are flagged as such (i.e., requiring formatting) in the Physical Disk display grid as well as dialogs such as the disk selection dialog for Storage Pool Creation. [ QSTOR-3936 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added graphical Enclosure model for the 24-bay Cheetah RAID server. [ QSTOR-9836 ]

  • Added support for enclosure layout Supermicro Server SYS-121C-TN10R (1U10). [ QSTOR-9759 ]

  • Updated Broadcom sas3ircu and storcli to latest releases. [ QSTOR-9743 ]

  • Added feature to auto configure Corvault External Systems. [ QSTOR-9552 ]

  • Fixed issue with new physical disk being added, in which the Correlated hwDisk device column showed "N/A", requiring disk scans and hwdisk scan to resolve. [ QSTOR-8808 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fix a minor error for SMBD service error during failover. [ QSTOR-9863 ]

  • Allow users to tear down a site cluster and recreate it with the proper nodes in it. Added warnings to let the user know that they will need to Convert HA-VIFs before deleting site cluster. [ QSTOR-7995 ]

  • Improved error messages with attempting to add devices to an HA Group which does not have connectivity to all systems in the HA Group. [ QSTOR-4825 ]

  • Fixes bug with storage pool delete when deleting an encrypted HA-pool. No longer trying to close disks on passive nodes. [ QSTOR-4287 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Changed QuantaStor included drivers to use DKMS for easier and more graceful driver / kernel updates. [ QSTOR-8600 ]

  • Updated ZFS driver to 2.1.12 for Focal Platform with some important backported items from 2.2.0. [ QSTOR-8600 ]

  • Updated SCST iSCSI target driver for Focal Platform to the 3.8.0 versions. [ QSTOR-8600 ]

Licensing

  • Fix a misleading error message when license activation has reached a limit. [ QSTOR-9766 ]

Multitenancy

  • update Resilio agent to latest docker container. [ QSTOR-9787 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Apply user agent ID when mounting Cloud Containers. [ QSTOR-9741 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed some issues with deleting and converting Site Cluster ViFs into local IPs [ QSTOR-9856 ]

  • Added Focal support for the mellanox ofed installer script. [ QSTOR-9735 ]

  • Adds warning for Users using DHCP interfaces on newly provisioned focal systems. Bug was fixed to allow user to disable DHCP interfaces on newly provisioned focal systems. [ QSTOR-9659 ]

  • Implemented custom network port renaming. [ QSTOR-9430 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Network Interfaces not coming up due to an invalid config file being present. [ QSTOR-8801 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix an issue where the CephFS snapshot GMT share display names were not properly showing the FQN in the multi-delete dialog. [ QSTOR-9858 ]

  • Allows users to scope NFS and Samba access to the subnet of the HA-VIF. [ QSTOR-9753 ]

  • Add the ability to set the number of days for files in Network Share to remain immutable. [ QSTOR-9744 ]

  • Reduced log spam when audit logging is turned on. VFS full\_audit plug in default arguments can now be adjusted from a configuration file. [ QSTOR-9729 ]

  • Add the ability to move nested Network Shares in the share hierarchy from the Web UI. [ QSTOR-9698 ]

  • Show fully qualified parent share names in the network share create dialog under the Advanced tab. [ QSTOR-9698 ]

  • Added logic to avoid accidental deletion of a Network Share after setting it immutable by creating a GMT snapshot with a hold on it. [ QSTOR-9514 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Pretty print the PowerShell cmdlet output. [ QSTOR-9265 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Replication schedules, snapshot schedules and backup policies will only make read-only snapshots of shares going forward. All existing shares with read-write snapshots for shares will be forced to make read-only snapshots. [ QSTOR-9751 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with Storage Volume Group snapshot when volumes are from multiple nodes. [ QSTOR-3153 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fix and issue where FC ports were not being rendered in the Storage system tree view at startup. [ QSTOR-9791 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-9854 ]

Security

  • Fixes bug in redirect logic if user password has a space character in it. [ QSTOR-9786 ]

  • Added support for Google / OTP 2FA [ QSTOR-9471 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue where share metadata files were not getting cleaned up properly. [ QSTOR-9815 ]

  • Added script to compare quantastor packages [ QSTOR-9763 ]

  • Provide utility to increase swap space. [ QSTOR-9651 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added additional blocksize checks when createing a pool and adding cache/log/spare devices. [ QSTOR-9800 ]

  • Added option to set ZFS special\_small\_block param when metadata offload devices are added. [ QSTOR-9788 ]

  • Filter out disks under 50MegaBytes from create, grow and add device dialogs. [ QSTOR-9765 ]

  • Added checks to warn an block mixing disks with different sector sizes in ZFS storage pools for pool create, grow, and spare replace operations. [ QSTOR-7651 ]

  • Added more accurate Storage Pool Resilvering alerts for when resilvering is in progress as well for when resilvering has completed. [ QSTOR-5917 ]

  • Changed the Modify Storage Pool compression settings section to make it more intuitive. [ QSTOR-4194 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with Storage Pool Import Dialog when there are not Storage Pools to import [ QSTOR-3502 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with grid wide upgrade task authentication. To upgrade a grid to a version >= 6.2 the user needs to run the upgrade twice. The first time the grid master will get upgraded. The second upgrade will upgrade all other nodes in the grid. All upgrades that start on a version >= 6.2 will require you to upgrade only once. [ QSTOR-9807 ]

  • Added boot drive availability checks before running distro/kernel upgrades to ensure there is enough available space to successfully upgrade. [ QSTOR-9804 ]

  • Enabled cloud-init by default on focal ISO installs. [ QSTOR-9772 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix issue in Management Groups where a User Group was deleted, but the Users stay in the lower grid. Switch the lower User grid to a paging grid for scale. [ QSTOR-9870 ]

  • Disable ZFS specific properties for CephFS Network Shares. [ QSTOR-9853 ]

  • Add a Force checkbox to the create bonded port dialog. [ QSTOR-9843 ]

  • Fix an issue where the Add License dialog did not have the correct Storage System selected when opened. [ QSTOR-9797 ]

  • Improve the UX for the existing Network Share Set Quotas Dialog. [ QSTOR-9736 ]

  • Add a tooltip for Storage Volume Group snapshot. [ QSTOR-9695 ]

  • Widen the volume restore name column and related dialog. [ QSTOR-9692 ]

  • Minor fix to context menu for Delete EC Profile [ QSTOR-9680 ]

  • Show Location and Description columns in the Site grid. Show network shares, that are assigned to quotas, in the south region of the quota area. General UX improvements of various dialogs. [ QSTOR-9561 ]

  • Add example watermarks for the IQN and WWPN data entry fields and improve related tooltips. [ QSTOR-3750 ]

  • Updated the Drop/Close Sessions dialog. [ QSTOR-3675 ]

v6.1.8.006 (August 25th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.8.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Added logic to automatically cleanup orphaned QuantaStor Network share objects that had no name and no path. [ QSTOR-9810 ]

Service Core

  • Added a check to the quantastor prestart script to always clean up poolmeta temp files inside /run/quantastor/ [ QSTOR-9814 ]

  • Increased QuantaStor service memory limits to 8GB for single nodes and 32GB for grid nodes. [ QSTOR-9813 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Set default trim rate for ZFS Storage Pool trim to 100MB/s. [ QSTOR-9784 ]

v6.1.7.010 (August 14th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with Cephfs pools remounting after reboot. This fixes an issue introduced in 6.1.2 [ QSTOR-9728 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Implemented the ability to failover HA storage pools without a site cluster. This allows for easier platform or other upgrades where a site cluster had to be temporarily removed and recreated due to api or platform compatibility changes. [ QSTOR-9745 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with local VIF delete introduced in 6.1.6 [ QSTOR-9776 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Replication reports to include skipped replication triggers. [ QSTOR-9731 ]

  • Added details to the replication schedule and replication report for when a scheduled replication trigger is skipped due to an ongoing replication or other item that would cause replication to not trigger. [ QSTOR-9694 ]

  • Fixed a corner case where replication could fail if the snapshot being replicated to the target checkpoint was not discovered properly. [ QSTOR-9691 ]

  • Fix an issue with replication is falsely reported as failed. Can sometimes happens on slow disks on replication destination. [ QSTOR-9685 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a legacy corner case file conflict with the multipath.conf in platform upgrades for systems originally deployed with early xenial based QuantaStor install media or older platforms than xenial. [ QSTOR-9748 ]

v6.1.6.024 (July 7th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.6.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Filtered out non client keyrings from the Ceph Client keyrings. [ QSTOR-9718 ]

  • Updated ceph pacific version for upgrades to 16.2.13 [ QSTOR-9715 ]

  • Mask legacy radosgw.service start up script for Focal. [ QSTOR-9700 ]

  • Fixed an issue with CephFS client export keyring. [ QSTOR-9684 ]

  • No longer tracking rgw Ceph auth client keys. [ QSTOR-9657 ]

  • Cache policy settings will now be grayed out in Network Share Create dialog -> Advanced Settings for Ceph FS shares. [ QSTOR-9022 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added further logic to hardware controller and enclosure discovery to protect against Broadcom storcli failures to return full hardware controller details. [ QSTOR-9697 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with disabling dhcp interfaces with no network connection on Focal. [ QSTOR-9666 ]

Not Set

  • Fixed an issue where double quotes were being removed from the samba configuration file. [ QSTOR-9696 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed the Storage System Shutdown Task to correctly complete with 100% progress when the system is shutdown. [ QSTOR-9565 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a misleading alert for encrypted Storage Pool with a missing disk. [ QSTOR-9676 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added support for upgrading Bionic Platforms from Ceph Nautilus to Pacific.

Fixed various issues with coordinated Ceph upgrades. [ QSTOR-9638 ]

Web Manager

  • Add a View Replication Schedule Report menu item that launches the replication report chooser dialog (same dialog the button on the replication dashboard launches). [ QSTOR-9713 ]

v6.1.5.014 (Jun 19th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.5.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added CheetahRAID SAS+NVMe enclosure support. [ QSTOR-9660 ]

  • Added support for the Dell Xe7100 enclosure. [ QSTOR-9660 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed some issues with creating and deleting site cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-9672 ]

  • Fixed: added logic to ensure the nodeid for site cluster configurations is always unique. [ QSTOR-9665 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added new qs-util npblink command that can be used to blink network port identify LED's. [ QSTOR-7589 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with enabling an \_chkpnt replica target for NFS access. [ QSTOR-9679 ]

  • Added support for DNS Realms to the DNS verification checks in the AD join. [ QSTOR-9644 ]

  • Revise the error message to be more descriptive for when the snapshots of a Cloud Container are attempted. [ QSTOR-3165 ]

Not Set

  • Ensure the mount path property of the share gets updated during a rename of the share. [ QSTOR-9681 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with snapshot cleanup being queued when an active replication was running. [ QSTOR-9673 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed issue with pool grow if special VDEVS are on a pool. [ QSTOR-9677 ]

v6.1.4.016 (May 25th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.4.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for ASUS RS500A-E12-RS12U NVMe enclosure mapping and system health sensors. [ QSTOR-9627 ]

  • Added initial support for Supermicro AMD based server NVMe disk identification. [ QSTOR-9609 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Add nguid support to I/O fencing tools. [ QSTOR-9654 ]

Licensing

  • Fixes bug where trial key with delayed activated license would cause simple operations to fail due to invalid licensing error. [ QSTOR-9388 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added support for DHCP on Focal platforms. [ QSTOR-9656 ]

  • Added support for DHCP interfaces when converting from cloud-init initial netplan style networking. [ QSTOR-9656 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixes bug where network share would go into a "MISSING" state when disabled. [ QSTOR-9643 ]

Not Set

  • Move the Replication Schedule checkboxes from the "General" tab to an "Advanced" tab. [ QSTOR-9405 ]

SNMP

  • Fixed: the alert for legacy SNMP upgrade and recommended reconfiguration will now only be raised once on the first upgrade. [ QSTOR-9588 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue where dataset lookups would fail for snapshots of cephFS shares. [ QSTOR-9650 ]

  • Fixed the Storage Pool health check on non-HA nodes to only raise an alert when triggered on pool I/O error/timeout instead of marking the node as needing to be rebooted. [ QSTOR-9646 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue with the Web UI Dashboards when static routes are configured. [ QSTOR-9653 ]

  • Show the Ceph Version column in the System Info Tab by default. [ QSTOR-9641 ]

  • Change the modify maintenance schedule 'Maintenance Type' radio buttons to a Read-Only HTML field. [ QSTOR-8020 ]

  • Improve the Config Analyzer Minor and Warning color contrast. [ QSTOR-5500 ]

v6.1.2.050 (May 18th 2023)

Release 6.1.2 was superseded by 6.1.3

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Updated Ceph for new installs to Pacific 6.2.13 [ QSTOR-9617 ]

  • Allow s3 buckets with the same name if under different tenants. [ QSTOR-9605 ]

  • Fixed an issue with CephFS teardown. [ QSTOR-9594 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed NVMe Device enclosure slot blink when issued against a physical disk object. [ QSTOR-9591 ]

  • Change the Physical Disk sort in central region to sort by name and match the tree view sort. [ QSTOR-5505 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where the disk temperature alert threshold set in the qs_ipmi.conf file was not being honored. [ QSTOR-9599 ]

  • Added a blink indicator icon in the Tree view for Hardware Disk Objects that are blinking. [ QSTOR-5506 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fix issue with HA VIF not staying on active node on Focal and RHEL deployments. [ QSTOR-9621 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with configuring bonded networking during the Focal platform installer. [ QSTOR-9620 ]

  • Added network interface clean up logic when splitting a grid or removing an node from the grid. [ QSTOR-9010 ]

  • Show Domain Suffix, DNS Servers, and Search Suffix columns in the Storage System grid of the Modify Grid Network Settings dialog. Change default from all systems checked to unchecked at launch. [ QSTOR-5708 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to share state when disable share fails when share is in use. [ QSTOR-2508 ]

  • Added multiple AD related health checks to AD Join. these include verifying ntp servers, DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup and other common network configuration issues that can cause AD joins to fail. [ QSTOR-1487 ]

  • Cleanup the lazy deleted ZFS shares after a reboot. Remove directory if it is a mount point and the directory is empty. Also destroy the ZFS dataset. [ QSTOR-1426 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed the disk-list filters for QS CLI commands to allo for better fuzzy matching on greater than and less than capacity matches for GB/GiB [ QSTOR-9243 ]

  • Fixed an issue with xml validation for the qs cli --xml output. [ QSTOR-1974 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed various remote replication task related items to provide clearer state when triggering, canceling or having a replication trigger while one is already running for a schedule. [ QSTOR-7972 ]

  • Fixed the remote replication reporting for HA storage configurations where a schedule can includes shares and volumes from multiple HA pools that may sometimes be on the HA partner node. [ QSTOR-4759 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed NVMe target storage volume devices to correctly report OSNEXUS QuantaStor for the vendor/model id of the disk devices on client NVMe initiators. [ QSTOR-8580 ]

Security

  • Allow multiple spaces in user passwords. [ QSTOR-9606 ]

  • Improve the Duo Multifactor Authentication login process. [ QSTOR-9593 ]

  • Simplified MFA Config Maintenance and fixed a bug with the Push authentication mode. [ QSTOR-5217 ]

  • Allow users to retry DUO MFA passcodes when selecting the SMS or passcode authentication options. [ QSTOR-5184 ]

Service Core

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-9636 ]

  • Added logic to ensure proper stopping of the encrypted swap space during storage system shutdown. [ QSTOR-9413 ]

  • Fixed the checks for the QuantaStor sendlogs feature in the event that there was a network failure preventing access to the log collection servers. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

  • Added advanced options to the Send Support Log dialog to optionally disable log uploading and/or scrubbing. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • For user passphrase encrypted storage pools, Import and Export encryption key API will not automatically place the DEK into memory. User must start the pool using the user defined passphrase to get the decrypted DEK. [ QSTOR-9304 ]

  • Config analyzer will now flag encrypted storage pools that have non-encrypted disks. An Alert is also raised and a warning status and state detail is put on the specific pool. [ QSTOR-7768 ]

  • Minor fix for SSD disks in a pool to check if trim is supported. [ QSTOR-6128 ]

  • Added disk Hardware enclosure and slot information if available to the alert raised for a storage pool disk that failed completely or was removed and is in missing status. [ QSTOR-2418 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated Focal platform install media to be based on 20.04.6 [ QSTOR-9626 ]

  • Added support for Offline Bionic -> Focal platform dist-upgrades using ISO media as the install repo. qs-util aptoffline ISO_FILE is the utility command to enable this. [ QSTOR-9625 ]

  • Added numerous improvements for Bionic->Focal platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-9548 ]

Web Manager

  • Widen the task detail grid column to view more text by default. [ QSTOR-9632 ]

  • Add a 'S3 Bucket Create...' menu item to S3 Tenant tree nodes. [ QSTOR-9623 ]

  • Improve the readability of chart data labels in the config analyzer and replication dashboards when in dark mode. [ QSTOR-9536 ]

  • Fix popup confirmation message for the deletion of Object based and File Scale-out storage pools. [ QSTOR-9376 ]

  • Add a force flag to the network share restore dialog for when a share has active sessions. [ QSTOR-6611 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with share rename to same name as a recently lazy deleted share. [ QSTOR-1425 ]

v6.1.1.029 (April 27th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added a check to prevent multiple storcli commands from running at the same time. [ QSTOR-9307 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Hardware controller RAID Units and Physical disks would not correlate. [ QSTOR-9557 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Block site cluster add and remove operations if any of the nodes in the site cluster are offline. [ QSTOR-9582 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fixed a bug where local Cloud Containers were not properly configured with NFS and SMB. [ QSTOR-9579 ]

Network Shares

  • Added pool and parent share context to various network share dialogs for nested shares. [ QSTOR-9550 ]

  • Removed a disabled field in the Network Share Modify dialog that only applies to network share create. [ QSTOR-8777 ]

  • Fix an issue with grouped Network share Namespace. [ QSTOR-6180 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Minor fix for cli argument validation. [ QSTOR-988 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with showing nested shares in replication and snapshot schedules. [ QSTOR-9542 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed a regression in the iSCSI Target driver to ensure ALUA is disable in mixed iSCSI+FC deployments. [ QSTOR-9571 ]

Security

  • Implemented Multifactor Authentication for AD Users. [ QSTOR-9560 ]

Service Core

  • Added block for removing a User via the UI if the User being deleted is the current User. [ QSTOR-7556 ]

  • Blocked ability to configure Virtual Interfaces with DHCP. [ QSTOR-6740 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added checks to ensure the correct zpool allocation_classes feature is enabled for log and other cache devices when importing OpenZFS pools from older QuantaStor releases or legacy SAN/NAS solutions. [ QSTOR-9573 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Storage Pool capacity updates on HA pools. [ QSTOR-9554 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the iofencing indicators refreshing properly on storage pool device objects when growing a storage pool or adding single cache devices. [ QSTOR-5476 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix a button truncation issue in the 'Assign/Unassign Multi-Factor Authentication Configuration to Users' dialog. [ QSTOR-9583 ]

  • Implemented a new Web Customization option to block a User from accessing the S3 Users & Tenants tab in the UI. [ QSTOR-9541 ]

  • Fix an issue where the maintenance schedule 'Update Maintenance List' dialog was not showing selected S3 pools. Improve the Report and Maintenance Schedule Pool Section feature to span across Storage Systems using a Dual List chooser. [ QSTOR-9540 ]

v6.1.0.186 (April 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with deleting mapped Ceph RBD's. [ QSTOR-9521 ]

  • Fix an issue in the S3 Zone Create dialog where the Zone Group was not properly set on custom names. Enhance the dialog to support common Amazon S3 Zones. [ QSTOR-9510 ]

  • Fixed an issue with adding a monitor back after a previous deletion. [ QSTOR-9488 ]

  • Fixed an issue with reporting inaccurate percent utilized values for Ceph Scale-out pools. [ QSTOR-9364 ]

  • Fixes bug where task for deleting Ceph FS pool would hang indefinitely. [ QSTOR-9319 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Client Keyring feature which allows users to create client keyrings associated with access to specified Ceph block pool and CephFS share resources. [ QSTOR-9197 ]

  • Added a check and protection to prevent changing the hostname of an active ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-7417 ]

  • Updated descriptions for ceph CRUSH rule CLI commands. [ QSTOR-6767 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed an issue with telegraf service access to ceph sockets for Dashboards on new Focal platform deployments. [ QSTOR-9517 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for Pliops Device discovery and use for Scale-up and Scale-out Storage Pool Data Devices. [ QSTOR-9501 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli to version 007.2507 [ QSTOR-9511 ]

  • Filters out the OS RAID disks from being selected as hot spares. [ QSTOR-9452 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA failover if the storage pool disk devices were not discovered properly or not in the QuantaStor database. [ QSTOR-9553 ]

  • Add support for entering and leaving maintenance mode on a Site Cluster. [ QSTOR-9444 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Minor fix for create bucket errors [ QSTOR-9513 ]

  • Cloud Container Create and Add will now preselect default location. [ QSTOR-9509 ]

  • Block Cloud Containers with "_" in the name. [ QSTOR-9508 ]

  • Updated to rclone 1.61.1 [ QSTOR-9490 ]

  • Add the ability to mount cloud containers on multiple Storage Systems in the grid. [ QSTOR-9363 ]

  • Added the flag "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" to improve upload times for azure cloud container backups. [ QSTOR-9171 ]

  • Add "storage class" support for Cloud Containers. [ QSTOR-6317 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added the ability to do a custom script callout for interfaces for pre and post ifup calls. [ QSTOR-9482 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix a regression causing Network Share clone to break. [ QSTOR-9497 ]

  • Added auto resume for in progress Network Share Clone tasks after a service restart. [ QSTOR-9469 ]

  • Add write-once-read-many support for Network Shares [ QSTOR-9372 ]

  • Fixed an issue with deleting Network Share custom cifs options. [ QSTOR-6426 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Show nested shares in the 'Replication Schedules' grid view. [ QSTOR-9502 ]

  • Improved task naming and logging when deleting expired Network Share snapshots from a Snapshot Schedule. [ QSTOR-9479 ]

  • Added ability to add nested Network Shares to Snapshot Schedules. [ QSTOR-8492 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB for 6.1 [ QSTOR-9500 ]

  • Add support to enable/disable Quantastor SNMP agent via the alert manager. [ QSTOR-9392 ]

Security

  • Fixes bug in FIPS mode configuration. [ QSTOR-9534 ]

Service Core

  • Add nested share support to replication schedules. [ QSTOR-9345 ]

  • Implemented minor version ceph upgrades in the Upgrade Manager. [ QSTOR-9244 ]

  • Updated QuantaStor toolchain. QuantaStor now requires Bionic or newer Ubuntu, and RedHat 8.6 or newer platforms. [ QSTOR-8830 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a race condition when starting an Upgrade via the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-9436 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix issue where the Resource Group Add/Remove Shares/Volumes dialogs were not properly initialized with previously selected Shares/Volumes. [ QSTOR-9547 ]

  • Updated SIte Cluster VIF Icons for better contrast in both light and dark modes. [ QSTOR-9546 ]

  • Change Delete Cloud Container terminology to Detach Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-9493 ]

  • Minor improvements to show the schedule trigger times in the WEB UI [ QSTOR-9487 ]

  • Added a Dark mode theme for QuantaStor. The default behavior is to follow the OS's current light/dark mode preference. This can be overridden with the light/dark mode toggle in the upper right of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-9474 ]

  • Add a Snapshot Count column for Shares and Volumes. [ QSTOR-9445 ]

  • Move the NFS Settings fieldset in the Ceph dialogs (Create CephFs and Zone) to the Advanced tab. [ QSTOR-9438 ]

  • Show a popup error message when creating Cloud Provider Credentials and the Username and/or Secret Access fields are empty. [ QSTOR-9315 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Prometheus integration with Graphana. Guide can be found at this URL Grafana Ceph Dashboard & Prometheus Integration [ QSTOR-9007 ]

v6.0.11.001 (April 7th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Security

  • Fixed an issue with FIPS mode support still showing reboot required after a reboot was already performed. [ QSTOR-9528 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Increased the timeout for the iSCSI/FC Target service and driver stack checks in the QuantaSTor Management service. This fixes an issue that can occur if backend disks are provided to QuantaStor via FIber Channel. [ QSTOR-9528 ]

v6.0.9.004 (March 15th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.9.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with Active Directory Joining with latest Focal and Redhat platform samba updates. [ QSTOR-9466 ]

Service Core

  • Added logic to always insert Server Hostname + Domain Search suffix into /etc/hosts file for local FQDN lookup of servers hostname. [ QSTOR-6971 ]

v6.0.8.005 (March 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.8.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Improve Corosync VIF resource management. [ QSTOR-9116 ]

  • Switched to preferring pcs when available for HA resource management. [ QSTOR-8246 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with zvol device path creation introduced in 6.0.7 [ QSTOR-9464 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with qstormanager permissions when installed on redhat based platforms. [ QSTOR-9460 ]