v6.1.0.186 (April 13th 2023)

by Lauren Grob

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Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with deleting mapped Ceph RBD's. [ QSTOR-9521 ]

  • Fix an issue in the S3 Zone Create dialog where the Zone Group was not properly set on custom names. Enhance the dialog to support common Amazon S3 Zones. [ QSTOR-9510 ]

  • Fixed an issue with adding a monitor back after a previous deletion. [ QSTOR-9488 ]

  • Fixed an issue with reporting inaccurate percent utilized values for Ceph Scale-out pools. [ QSTOR-9364 ]

  • Fixes bug where task for deleting Ceph FS pool would hang indefinitely. [ QSTOR-9319 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Client Keyring feature which allows users to create client keyrings associated with access to specified Ceph block pool and CephFS share resources. [ QSTOR-9197 ]

  • Added a check and protection to prevent changing the hostname of an active ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-7417 ]

  • Updated descriptions for ceph CRUSH rule CLI commands. [ QSTOR-6767 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed an issue with telegraf service access to ceph sockets for Dashboards on new Focal platform deployments. [ QSTOR-9517 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for Pliops Device discovery and use for Scale-up and Scale-out Storage Pool Data Devices. [ QSTOR-9501 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli to version 007.2507 [ QSTOR-9511 ]

  • Filters out the OS RAID disks from being selected as hot spares. [ QSTOR-9452 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA failover if the storage pool disk devices were not discovered properly or not in the QuantaStor database. [ QSTOR-9553 ]

  • Add support for entering and leaving maintenance mode on a Site Cluster. [ QSTOR-9444 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Minor fix for create bucket errors [ QSTOR-9513 ]

  • Cloud Container Create and Add will now preselect default location. [ QSTOR-9509 ]

  • Block Cloud Containers with "_" in the name. [ QSTOR-9508 ]

  • Updated to rclone 1.61.1 [ QSTOR-9490 ]

  • Add the ability to mount cloud containers on multiple Storage Systems in the grid. [ QSTOR-9363 ]

  • Added the flag "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" to improve upload times for azure cloud container backups. [ QSTOR-9171 ]

  • Add "storage class" support for Cloud Containers. [ QSTOR-6317 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added the ability to do a custom script callout for interfaces for pre and post ifup calls. [ QSTOR-9482 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix a regression causing Network Share clone to break. [ QSTOR-9497 ]

  • Added auto resume for in progress Network Share Clone tasks after a service restart. [ QSTOR-9469 ]

  • Add write-once-read-many support for Network Shares [ QSTOR-9372 ]

  • Fixed an issue with deleting Network Share custom cifs options. [ QSTOR-6426 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Show nested shares in the 'Replication Schedules' grid view. [ QSTOR-9502 ]

  • Improved task naming and logging when deleting expired Network Share snapshots from a Snapshot Schedule. [ QSTOR-9479 ]

  • Added ability to add nested Network Shares to Snapshot Schedules. [ QSTOR-8492 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB for 6.1 [ QSTOR-9500 ]

  • Add support to enable/disable Quantastor SNMP agent via the alert manager. [ QSTOR-9392 ]

Security

  • Fixes bug in FIPS mode configuration. [ QSTOR-9534 ]

Service Core

  • Add nested share support to replication schedules. [ QSTOR-9345 ]

  • Implemented minor version ceph upgrades in the Upgrade Manager. [ QSTOR-9244 ]

  • Updated QuantaStor toolchain. QuantaStor now requires Bionic or newer Ubuntu, and RedHat 8.6 or newer platforms. [ QSTOR-8830 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a race condition when starting an Upgrade via the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-9436 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix issue where the Resource Group Add/Remove Shares/Volumes dialogs were not properly initialized with previously selected Shares/Volumes. [ QSTOR-9547 ]

  • Updated SIte Cluster VIF Icons for better contrast in both light and dark modes. [ QSTOR-9546 ]

  • Change Delete Cloud Container terminology to Detach Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-9493 ]

  • Minor improvements to show the schedule trigger times in the WEB UI [ QSTOR-9487 ]

  • Added a Dark mode theme for QuantaStor. The default behavior is to follow the OS's current light/dark mode preference. This can be overridden with the light/dark mode toggle in the upper right of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-9474 ]

  • Add a Snapshot Count column for Shares and Volumes. [ QSTOR-9445 ]

  • Move the NFS Settings fieldset in the Ceph dialogs (Create CephFs and Zone) to the Advanced tab. [ QSTOR-9438 ]

  • Show a popup error message when creating Cloud Provider Credentials and the Username and/or Secret Access fields are empty. [ QSTOR-9315 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Prometheus integration with Graphana. Guide can be found at this URL Grafana Ceph Dashboard & Prometheus Integration [ QSTOR-9007 ]