v6.2.6.024 (February 8th 2024)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.6.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for iofencing NVMe disks that do not support cdw11 [ QSTOR-10087 ]

  • Added an Alert for when a OS Software RAID1 mirror enters a degraded state. [ QSTOR-10080 ]

  • Added support LSI-3008C0 model controllers. [ QSTOR-9841 ]

  • Added a check to hardware Enclosure Discovery to automatically filter out enclosures that do not have any drive slots. [ QSTOR-9716 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the I/O fencing tool where it was reporting not-supported on reservation capable nvme devices. [ QSTOR-10114 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Updated static routes to use modern ip route syntax with the 'proto static' option. [ QSTOR-10103 ]

  • Updated netplan conversion to by default create static routes using ip route to match the original netplan static route rules. [ QSTOR-10103 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: Activate HA Failover Group now works for Storage Pools in a degraded state missing a few devices. [ QSTOR-10100 ]

  • Fixed: Create HA Failover Group now allows a force option if there are a small number of drives missing on the secondary node. Note that the operation will still be blocked if most/all of the drives are missing from the secondary node. [ QSTOR-10100 ]

  • Added support for Zero Touch Maintenance Automatic Global Hot spare marking of Hardware RAID0 Passthrough units. [ QSTOR-9865 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed: NVMe Target Storage volumes now persist their serial numbers correctly on reboot [ QSTOR-9992 ]

  • Fixed: the NVMe Target now correctly re-exports the allowed portals on system boot. [ QSTOR-9992 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support the latest Focal platform 5.15.0-91-generic kernel. [ QSTOR-10117 ]

  • Updated the GPG repo keys for QuantaStor RedHat / and Almalinux platform installs [ QSTOR-10107 ]

  • Fixed a incorrect error log when upgrading the Kernel and Drivers on the Ubuntu Focal platform. The upgrade would succeed when the error was seen, but it was unclear to the user without full log analysis. [ QSTOR-10106 ]

  • Updated upgrade manager logic to ensure recommended dependency packages are always selected for install during core service and security upgrades. [ QSTOR-10101 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the qs-distupgrade script where some QuantaStor core package changes were not being applied after a platform dist-upgrade from bionic to focal. [ QSTOR-10132 ]

  • Added better logging of systemctl service enablement and restart during qstorservice package installs. [ QSTOR-10134 ]