v5.12.0.370 (May 26th 2022)

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

Adds support for detection and alerting of known bad firmware levels on HDD/SSD/NVMe media [ QSTOR-8755 ]
Add IT Service Management (ITSM) module support for alerts making it easy to integrate alerting with popular ITSM service providers via webhook URLs. [ QSTOR-8626 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

Deprecated the 'cleanupOrphans' option during Ceph Bucket Delete [ QSTOR-8803 ]
Fixed an issue with Ceph Cluster delete where OSDs were being deleted before Object Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-8779 ]
Deprecated auto-creation of a default ceph user [ QSTOR-8767 ]
The WUI now supports a S3 bucket name validator that is compliant with Amazon S3 naming conventions. [ QSTOR-8728 ]
Simplify ceph cluster create from the QS CLI. [ QSTOR-8708 ]
Add support for erasure coded scale-out block pool. [ QSTOR-8685 ]
Place the "Health Details" tab first in the Ceph Cluster deck of tabs. [ QSTOR-8671 ]
Allow more time for bucket delete [ QSTOR-8667 ]
Block deletion of S3 object pool when there are S3 gateways. [ QSTOR-8509 ]
Adds built-in load-balancer for S3 object storage which boosts performance and provides high-availability integration with floating VIFs [ QSTOR-7921 ]

Disk Management

Enclosures and Controllers

Add support for the Adaptec 1000-16e HBA cards [ QSTOR-8729 ]
Added support for the Dell 355 HBA cards [ QSTOR-8713 ]
Added enclosure support for Seagate AP and 2U12 JBOD. [ QSTOR-8701 ]
Compatibility added for SMC-branded LSI HBA cards [ QSTOR-8700 ]
Add custom alt-name text to External system selection in Configure Media Connectivity Dialog (if present). [ QSTOR-8692 ]
Added support for the 2-port WDC Data24 External NVMe JBOF enclosure. [ QSTOR-8645 ]
Added Enclosure layout for Seagate 2U24 HA systems. [ QSTOR-6038 ]

High Availability Failover

Fixed an issue on Redhat Platforms with High Availability vifs staying in 'Standby' after a system reboot. [ QSTOR-8725 ]
Resolved an issue with PCS resource cleanup on RedHat platforms. [ QSTOR-8710 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

Network Interfaces

Added logic to restart the Redhat platform network.service if it fails to start on a system boot. [ QSTOR-8798 ]
Adds support for FC/iSCSI vendor model emulation of 3rd party SANs for compatibility with IBM SVC [ QSTOR-8750 ]
Fixes bug where NVME and ISCSI enabled options for NICs were not being persisted after disabling the interface. [ QSTOR-8686 ]
Fixes bug where duplicate network interfaces were being written to the /etc/network/interfaces file. [ QSTOR-8643 ]
Added support for Mellanox OFED lossless networking on supported NICs. [ QSTOR-8362 ]
Show Bond children under their parent in the tree view. Provide a Network Port name search bar in the System menu area that includes the ability to filter-out Offline and Bonded Network Ports. [ QSTOR-7591 ]

Network Shares

Quantastor CLI

Enhance the CLI resource-group-resource-remove to support resource-list specified by object name [ QSTOR-8702 ]
Minor fix for qs lic-get [ QSTOR-8691 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

Use lz4 for replication when compression is enabled. [ QSTOR-8752 ]
Detect and update tasks in case of failures during replication. [ QSTOR-8634 ]
Fix an issue where the Replication Schedule Create dialog was incorrectly filtering out Ceph Pools and associated resources. [ QSTOR-6635 ]
Fixed an issue with remote replication involving shares from HA storage pools. [ QSTOR-3530 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

Added Emulation mode options for FC WWPN mapping and QuantaStor device identity. [ QSTOR-8712 ]

SNMP

Security

Added more support for KMIP protocol for the Key Server Profile feature. [ QSTOR-8689 ]

Service Core

Update the quantastor python client program for 5.12 release. [ QSTOR-8785 ]
Fixed an issue with QuantaStor service startup on Redhat platforms with bonded network interfaces. [ QSTOR-8769 ]
Block sharing of binding addresses for resource groups. [ QSTOR-8703 ]
New feature added to create subnet bindings for multi-tenancy resource groups. [ QSTOR-8542 ]

Storage Pool Management

Minor fix to the alert message for hot spare usage. [ QSTOR-8806 ]
Implemented feature to expanda an existing Storage Pool when the underlying disks' size has increased. [ QSTOR-8748 ]
Added logic to automatically hide discovered OS MD software raid from the QuantaStor UI. If the OS MD software raid becomes degraded it will re-appear in the UI as a storage pool object. [ QSTOR-8693 ]
Add WUI support for adding ZFS metadata and deduplication devices to pool. [ QSTOR-8659 ]
Fixed a bug where a zfs pool had a spare disk in the "UNAVAIL" state and could not be deleted from the pool using the Quantastor WUI. [ QSTOR-8646 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

Updated Redhat platform support for RHEL 8.6 release [ QSTOR-8795 ]
Change the default to upgrade without driver/kernel changes in the 'Upgrade Manager' dialog. [ QSTOR-8747 ]
Updated Redhat 8 based platfroms to deploy Kernel 4.18.0-348.23.1
Updated mellanox OFED installer script to OFED 5.6 [ QSTOR-8734 ]
Updated AWS CLI package to 2.4.24 [ QSTOR-8650 ]
Removed QuantaStor overrides of os-release and lsb-release files and reverted them back to the Platform default settings. [ QSTOR-8618 ]
Added a fix that forces grub to skip probing the selected OS install disk for legacy or other OS installs during Bionic platform ISO installs. Previously, the Bionic platform install could hang at 66% of the 'update-grub' process if the OS disk was not new or completely wiped of all data/metadata prior to the install. [ QSTOR-8829 ]

Web Manager

Filter out the usage of the internal S3 User 'qsobjadmin'. [ QSTOR-8766 ]
Add certificate browsing capability to the create S3 reverse proxy dialog. [ QSTOR-8737 ]
Allow the "!" in the 'Add System to Storage Grid' dialog's password field. [ QSTOR-8705 ]
Provide the ability to change all time zone settings in a Grid. The new Grid menu items is, ' 'Modify Grid Time Zone Settings'. [ QSTOR-8615 ]
Increases the size of the chooser buttons and improve the color contrast for the buttons in the 'Create OSDs & Journals'. [ QSTOR-8597 ]
Show 'Caps lock in on' message in Login dialog when set. [ QSTOR-6815 ]
Show the 'Total Available' and 'Total Selected' item counts in the dual list choosers. [ QSTOR-4766 ]