v6.1.2.050 (May 18th 2023)

by Lauren Grob

Release 6.1.2 was superseded by 6.1.3

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Updated Ceph for new installs to Pacific 6.2.13 [ QSTOR-9617 ]

  • Allow s3 buckets with the same name if under different tenants. [ QSTOR-9605 ]

  • Fixed an issue with CephFS teardown. [ QSTOR-9594 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed NVMe Device enclosure slot blink when issued against a physical disk object. [ QSTOR-9591 ]

  • Change the Physical Disk sort in central region to sort by name and match the tree view sort. [ QSTOR-5505 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where the disk temperature alert threshold set in the qs_ipmi.conf file was not being honored. [ QSTOR-9599 ]

  • Added a blink indicator icon in the Tree view for Hardware Disk Objects that are blinking. [ QSTOR-5506 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fix issue with HA VIF not staying on active node on Focal and RHEL deployments. [ QSTOR-9621 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with configuring bonded networking during the Focal platform installer. [ QSTOR-9620 ]

  • Added network interface clean up logic when splitting a grid or removing an node from the grid. [ QSTOR-9010 ]

  • Show Domain Suffix, DNS Servers, and Search Suffix columns in the Storage System grid of the Modify Grid Network Settings dialog. Change default from all systems checked to unchecked at launch. [ QSTOR-5708 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to share state when disable share fails when share is in use. [ QSTOR-2508 ]

  • Added multiple AD related health checks to AD Join. these include verifying ntp servers, DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup and other common network configuration issues that can cause AD joins to fail. [ QSTOR-1487 ]

  • Cleanup the lazy deleted ZFS shares after a reboot. Remove directory if it is a mount point and the directory is empty. Also destroy the ZFS dataset. [ QSTOR-1426 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed the disk-list filters for QS CLI commands to allo for better fuzzy matching on greater than and less than capacity matches for GB/GiB [ QSTOR-9243 ]

  • Fixed an issue with xml validation for the qs cli --xml output. [ QSTOR-1974 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed various remote replication task related items to provide clearer state when triggering, canceling or having a replication trigger while one is already running for a schedule. [ QSTOR-7972 ]

  • Fixed the remote replication reporting for HA storage configurations where a schedule can includes shares and volumes from multiple HA pools that may sometimes be on the HA partner node. [ QSTOR-4759 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed NVMe target storage volume devices to correctly report OSNEXUS QuantaStor for the vendor/model id of the disk devices on client NVMe initiators. [ QSTOR-8580 ]

Security

  • Allow multiple spaces in user passwords. [ QSTOR-9606 ]

  • Improve the Duo Multifactor Authentication login process. [ QSTOR-9593 ]

  • Simplified MFA Config Maintenance and fixed a bug with the Push authentication mode. [ QSTOR-5217 ]

  • Allow users to retry DUO MFA passcodes when selecting the SMS or passcode authentication options. [ QSTOR-5184 ]

Service Core

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-9636 ]

  • Added logic to ensure proper stopping of the encrypted swap space during storage system shutdown. [ QSTOR-9413 ]

  • Fixed the checks for the QuantaStor sendlogs feature in the event that there was a network failure preventing access to the log collection servers. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

  • Added advanced options to the Send Support Log dialog to optionally disable log uploading and/or scrubbing. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • For user passphrase encrypted storage pools, Import and Export encryption key API will not automatically place the DEK into memory. User must start the pool using the user defined passphrase to get the decrypted DEK. [ QSTOR-9304 ]

  • Config analyzer will now flag encrypted storage pools that have non-encrypted disks. An Alert is also raised and a warning status and state detail is put on the specific pool. [ QSTOR-7768 ]

  • Minor fix for SSD disks in a pool to check if trim is supported. [ QSTOR-6128 ]

  • Added disk Hardware enclosure and slot information if available to the alert raised for a storage pool disk that failed completely or was removed and is in missing status. [ QSTOR-2418 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated Focal platform install media to be based on 20.04.6 [ QSTOR-9626 ]

  • Added support for Offline Bionic -> Focal platform dist-upgrades using ISO media as the install repo. qs-util aptoffline ISO_FILE is the utility command to enable this. [ QSTOR-9625 ]

  • Added numerous improvements for Bionic->Focal platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-9548 ]

Web Manager

  • Widen the task detail grid column to view more text by default. [ QSTOR-9632 ]

  • Add a 'S3 Bucket Create...' menu item to S3 Tenant tree nodes. [ QSTOR-9623 ]

  • Improve the readability of chart data labels in the config analyzer and replication dashboards when in dark mode. [ QSTOR-9536 ]

  • Fix popup confirmation message for the deletion of Object based and File Scale-out storage pools. [ QSTOR-9376 ]

  • Add a force flag to the network share restore dialog for when a share has active sessions. [ QSTOR-6611 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with share rename to same name as a recently lazy deleted share. [ QSTOR-1425 ]