v6.5.1.058 (February 12th 2025)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • General improvements to OSD drive replacement process. Added additional LVM clean up logic. Fixed issues with device correlation for multipath devices and encrypted drives. [ QSTOR-10915 ]

  • Allow deleting journals from the UI via Ceph journal delete dialog [ QSTOR-10890 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Add gridPreferredPort check to the WUI dashboard service (qsrestd) if set on a Storage System. [ QSTOR-10866 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed: New systems and clean QuantaStor service configurations databases will initialize Multipath autoconfig support as enabled by default. [ QSTOR-10900 ]

  • Increased timeouts and other optimizations for large multipath configurations. [ QSTOR-10881 ]

  • Added protections to prevent QuantaStor service from running multiple blkid instances if one is already running. [ QSTOR-10881 ]

  • Unblocked adding disk as a scale-up pool spare with a larger block size. [ QSTOR-10876 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add Enclosure mapping support for HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10. [ QSTOR-10899 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Hardware Disk Identify for Storage Pool Physical Disks where the controller was not properly selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10858 ]

  • Fixed an issue with applying External System Profile A+B. [ QSTOR-10840 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with automatically starting HA scale-up ZFS pools if both HA nodes are booted at the same time. [ QSTOR-10902 ]

  • Added a a check to ensure the luks crypttab was upto date after encrypted ha pool failover. [ QSTOR-10901 ]

  • Added VLAN interfaces to allowed interfaces for Site Cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-10871 ]

  • Added better logic for smb/nfs service management for Scale-up HA configurations with shares on multiple storage pools in the same HA cluster. [ QSTOR-10762 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Resource Group Service configs starting on a node after the node had previously hosted the service. [ QSTOR-10762 ]

  • Fixed: added a unique name check for HA group create/modify. [ QSTOR-10311 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Change Seagate Lyve Cloud endpoints [ QSTOR-10868 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with calling iptables commands when distupgrading from older distributions. [ QSTOR-10860 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to allow creation of GMT snapshots for volumes from the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10873 ]

  • Fixed an issue with spaces in the curl command issued to Quantastor. [ QSTOR-10838 ]

  • Fix issue where renaming a share that contained a nested share failed. [ QSTOR-10811 ]

  • Allow setting Samba share as read-only using ZFS. The new support has been added to the Network Share create and modify dialogs on the Advanced settings tab. [ QSTOR-10755 ]

  • Fixed an issue which created duplicate mounts for nested shares. [ QSTOR-10704 ]

  • Exposed ZFS 'Case Sensitivity' option at share creation time. [ QSTOR-8869 ]

REST API

  • Fixed the POST command in the REST API [ QSTOR-10844 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix an issue with auto tiering in backup policies. [ QSTOR-10845 ]

  • Refined the Backup Policy Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10843 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Backup Policy tasks completing when the underlying file copy or move process process had returned. [ QSTOR-10839 ]

  • Add alerting when replication fails. [ QSTOR-10799 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10922 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause performing a reboot or shutdown of the storage system via the QuantaStor UI to fail. [ QSTOR-10917 ]

  • Fix an issue with database backups on the storage pools. [ QSTOR-10907 ]

  • Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools when an underlying disk is read-only. [ QSTOR-10886 ]

  • Fixed a disk discovery issue when discoverying a large number of disks. [ QSTOR-10875 ]

  • Fixed QuantaStor service builds for Redhat based distros. [ QSTOR-10846 ]

  • Added /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/touchfiles/tf_sendlogs_ping_check.disable touchfile to bypess the icmp ping check and allow sending logs from the UI/qs cli. [ QSTOR-10556 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fix an issue with pick a smaller hotspare disk getting picked for metadata offload if disk goes missing. [ QSTOR-10877 ]

  • Add storage capacity properties for metadata offload VDEV [ QSTOR-10661 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a blacklist of the bnxt\_re driver to prevent issues for normal network operations for the bnxt_en driver loading on network controllers that have rdma support enabled in their firmware by default. [ QSTOR-10918 ]

  • Added elbencho benchmarking tool to quantastor utilities. [ QSTOR-10892 ]

  • Added support for Focal 20.04 to Jammy 22.04 Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-10547 ]

  • Fix telegraf start failures at startup due to invalid config file errors. [ QSTOR-10353 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed a minor truncation issue with trigger Backup Policy dialog [ QSTOR-10919 ]

  • Add a Description column to the share and snapshot grid and default to hidden. [ QSTOR-10882 ]

  • Minor fix to NTP server add dialog to prevent empty entries in the dialog. [ QSTOR-10870 ]

  • Auto select first row in NTP and DNS settings dialogs. [ QSTOR-10867 ]

  • Improve the host assign volume dialog. [ QSTOR-10862 ]