v6.2.8.016 (March 5th 2024)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.8.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed Hardware Disk to Physical disk slot correlation issues. [ QSTOR-10135 ]

  • Improved Enclosure object guid uniqueness to better support more complex/multipath setups for hardware disk to physical disk mapping. [ QSTOR-10135 ]

  • Added Hardware Enclosure Serial\# property and logic to discover serial\# when available. [ QSTOR-10102 ]

Multitenancy

  • Updated Resilio container image to 3.8.1.2250 [ QSTOR-10162 ]

  • Fix errors with Resilio container errors seen after upgrade. [ QSTOR-10099 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause duplicate snapshot objects to appear for snapshot schedules with nested shares and recursive snapshot enabled. [ QSTOR-10159 ]

  • Added a check to temporarily prevent adding ZFS dataset encrypted Network Shares to remote replication schedules until the Open ZFS issue \#12014 is resolved in an upcoming ZFS release. [ QSTOR-10145 ]

  • Fixed an issue with using Windows Restore Previous Versions on remote Replica \_chkpnt Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10065 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Updated SCST driver to 3.8.0.9038-f134517-qs01 to support latest available linux kernels for Focal platform and Focal cloud platform kernels. [ QSTOR-10151 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added Kernel Driver Support for QuantaStor installation on Ubuntu 20.04 images on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. [ QSTOR-10138 ]