v5.12.6.027 (August 17th 2022)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.12.6.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added an alert for any detected USB devices that may be attached to the system. It is recommended to detach/remove physical and/or virtual USB media from the QuantaStor system when the system is in production serving storage. [ QSTOR-9008 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed bug that did not allow enabling load balancer and redirecting rgw to https port. [ QSTOR-8983 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure and Controller discovery support for more Intel series RAID controller/HBA models. [ QSTOR-8996 ]

  • Added enclosure Layout support and chassis images for the Supermicro 4U 90-bay Storage Bridge Bay style unit. [ QSTOR-8988 ]

  • Fixed: added checks to ensure the perccli commands are not run when no PERC controller is present. [ QSTOR-8908 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed: failing an encrypted HA pool over to a node missing some or all of the underlying physical disks will be blocked in the initial disk connectivity verification. [ QSTOR-9034 ]

  • Fixed early HA failover checks for disk connectivity if there are too many disks missing on the node taking over the pool that would prevent the pool from starting. [ QSTOR-9018 ]

  • Improved failover rules based on HA VIF state [ QSTOR-9009 ]

  • Fixed: qs-iofence will now return NOT-SUPPORTED immediately for attached ATA and USB devices and no longer uses sg_inq or other sg3_util calls for those device types. [ QSTOR-9004 ]

  • Enhanced the device connectivity verification prior to failing over an HA pool. [ QSTOR-9001 ]

Licensing

  • Minor fix to Storage Volume create after adding new license. [ QSTOR-8986 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Add support for Seagate Lyve Cloud [ QSTOR-8989 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes an issue where you are unable set a network interface online if is dhcp configured without an assigned IP address. [ QSTOR-8991 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added checks to run the Pool Optimizer after Storage Pool Grow, and device add such as for cache and spare. [ QSTOR-9027 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed the focal platform sources.list file for new installs. [ QSTOR-9025 ]

  • Adds platform suffix to downloaded iso and md5 files e.g. '_focal.iso' [ QSTOR-8994 ]

Web Manager

  • Add support to the Grid dashboard tab to work for single system (non-grid) setups. [ QSTOR-8982 ]

  • Enhance the Config Analyzer to view reports in a popup dialog in addition to in a new browser tab. This new feature does not require 'allow popups' to be configured in browser. [ QSTOR-8970 ]

  • Fix the WUI Pool Graph where it was showing a "sawtooth" pattern when idol. [ QSTOR-8957 ]