v6.2.3.045 (December 13th 2023)

by Lauren Grob

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 ]