v5.11.2.107 (January 24th 2022)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixes issue with Alert Manager settings not showing and saving correctly after grid formation. [ QSTOR-8500 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with the Ceph Crush rules for SSD based OSD's placing the OSD's in the wrong crushmap. [ QSTOR-8497 ]

  • Auto set the Storage Pool field when the 'Modify Redundancy (CRUSH) Rule Selection' is launched from the Scale-out Storage Pools tree. [ QSTOR-8496 ]

  • Add batch create support to the S3 bucket and user create dialogs. Add multi-del support for S3 buckets and users. [ QSTOR-8494 ]

  • Adds a search bar in 'Storage Management -> S3 Buckets' and 'Security -> S3 Users' to allow users to search for buckets and users by name. [ QSTOR-8486 ]

  • Fix issue where Journal device deletes for encrypted Ceph Clusters fails. [ QSTOR-8484 ]

  • Add ability to delete orphanced Ceph Journal Devices via the cli. [ QSTOR-8480 ]

  • Improved encrypted OSD clean up. [ QSTOR-8458 ]

  • Added Caph Pacific to the RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.4 installer and an optional Bionic ISO. [ QSTOR-8423 ]

  • Added Caph Pacific to the RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.4 installer and an optional Bionic ISO. [ QSTOR-7204 ]

  • Fixed an issue with configuration when recreating a Ceph Monitor on a Ceph Member [ QSTOR-6591 ]

Disk Management

  • Fix an issue where the Physical Disk tree view, when expanded, would collapse on incoming System Update events. [ QSTOR-8479 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add server enclosure for Supermicro Server 6029P (2U24) and Supermicro BigTwin Quad-node Server (2U24)). [ QSTOR-8485 ]

  • Improve NVMe Software Controller target logins during boot. [ QSTOR-8439 ]

  • Add the 'Dell PowerEdge R740 (2U0)' server type images to the enclosure configuration so they are selectable in the System Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-8417 ]

  • Add support for additional Supermicro NVMe server enclosure views [ QSTOR-8222 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA Group state transitions [ QSTOR-8436 ]

  • Removed ability to offline, online, or restart site vifs [ QSTOR-8220 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Removed 'attach container' option when enabling a Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-5232 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed a minor issue with names for site VIFs could exceed the maximum character limit. [ QSTOR-8308 ]

  • Minor CLI changes to "qs virtual-interface-create" and "qs "network-port-modify" [ QSTOR-6511 ]

Network Shares

  • Add the ability to auto cleanup missing transient Network Share snapshots. [ QSTOR-8513 ]

  • Fix issue where disabling a share did not not drop the SMB session (terminate the client connectivity to that share). [ QSTOR-8454 ]

  • Add ability to specify "read only" or "read/write" for the access permissions of the snapshots created by backup policies, snapshot schedules, and replication schdules. [ QSTOR-7681 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed a duplicate checkpoint creation issue during certain Remote Replication scenarios. [ QSTOR-8482 ]

  • Fix backup policy so it can continue working if the source share is on a HA pool and a failover happens. [ QSTOR-8461 ]

  • Minor fix to filter the GMT snapshots as source share from backup policy dialog. [ QSTOR-8460 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with delta tags not getting updated after increasing the max deltas on a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-3518 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Adds support for setting custom IQN for storage systems. [ QSTOR-8466 ]

Security

  • Minor fix to allow hyphen in domain name in SSO [ QSTOR-8477 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue when modifying a Backup Policy. [ QSTOR-8507 ]

  • Log rotation configuration files now reside in standard /etc/logrotate.d location [ QSTOR-8474 ]

  • Added support to switch between predictable or legacy naming for network interfaces. [ QSTOR-8456 ]

  • Upgraded storcli to latest version [ QSTOR-8414 ]

  • Fixed an issue with updating DNS nameservers. [ QSTOR-6842 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Add the ability to reserving 1GB of space for pool protection in case the pool gets 100% full condition. [ QSTOR-8448 ]

  • Prevent usage of a SED encrypted disk if it is already in use by a previously exported SED encrypted Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-8400 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an install issue with xenial platforms that prevented some services from starting correctly on boot. [ QSTOR-8463 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the qs-upgrade script for an unavailable python3 dependency on xenial platfroms. [ QSTOR-8463 ]

Web Manager

  • Adds optimizations to WUI login to speed up Synchronization stage for large grid configurations [ QSTOR-8501 ]

  • Adds the ability to create system usage acknowledgement notifications in the UI. [ QSTOR-8450 ]

  • Show the Enclosure's 'Altname' in the Central Hardware Enclosures Tab / Grid if the user has provided one using the Modify Enclosure dialog. [ QSTOR-8433 ]

  • Filter the disks shown in the Identify Dialog based on the selected Storage Pool Device Group and the hardware disks that are identifiable. [ QSTOR-8432 ]

  • Allow running Disk Performance Test on disks that are used by a pool. [ QSTOR-8429 ]

  • Adds additional properties to the 'Storage System Properties' to show Active Directory configuration settings. [ QSTOR-8427 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the Controller Disk grid was not showing associated Pool devices and Pools columns in a RAID Controller only configuration (N/A for HBA configurations). This fixes the auto selection of Disks in the Disk Identify dialog when launched from a Storage Pool Device group node in the tree view. [ QSTOR-8425 ]

  • Removed 'Close X' button from the login dialog and system usage notification dialog. [ QSTOR-8403 ]