v6.2.1.080 (November 15th 2023)

by Lauren Grob

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 ]