v6.5.2.070 (March 27th 2025)

by Lauren Grob

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.5.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added SED version of Micron 7300 drives to firmware check for Config Analyzer [ QSTOR-10933 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Update AWS cli. [ QSTOR-10956 ]

  • Extend Resource Groups to support adding S3 Tenant resource type. [ QSTOR-10808 ]

  • Extended timeouts for logical volume allocation commands when creating Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-10930 ]

  • Added more permissive check when running Ceph OSD replace prepare operation. (CLI only) [ QSTOR-10914 ]

  • Add a qs-ceph command to allow switching between fuse and kernel mount for cephFS to allow user comparison of fuse versus the faster kernel option. [ QSTOR-10905 ]

  • Adds additional Ceph coordinator election mode that maps to the site-cluster. [ QSTOR-10795 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added Jammy platform support for the ceph prometheus install script [ QSTOR-10949 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Strip whitespace characters from primary and secondary IPs during External System Credentials Add. [ QSTOR-10896 ]

  • Add validation for External System Credentials during creation. [ QSTOR-10826 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed a bug with creation grid master (gm) Site Cluster vifs. [ QSTOR-10996 ]

  • Implemented new naming schema for underlying Site Cluster HA Groups. [ QSTOR-10904 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with deleting bonded interfaces leaving slave interfaces tagged as slaves. [ QSTOR-10931 ]

  • Updates for mellanox ofed lossless networking support to work better with newer model cards. [ QSTOR-10779 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixes bug where having 'gmt' or 'GMT' in the name of a network share would cause issues with NFS protocol. [ QSTOR-10982 ]

  • Fix the mount paths for read-write GMT snapshots. [ QSTOR-10938 ]

  • Add mountaddr to the view mount instructions for Network Share. [ QSTOR-10923 ]

  • Add crossmnt option in the NFS exports for newly created shares. Also skip adding the default export for .zfs directory. [ QSTOR-10806 ]

  • Add the ability to clone a GMT snapshot and promote it.

Add QS CLI to copy share permissions. [ QSTOR-10580 ]

REST API

  • Handle empty lists from the curl calls to Quantastor APIs. [ QSTOR-10939 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed up dead links which were created after running some types of auto-tier Backup Policies. [ QSTOR-10934 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-11019 ]

Security

  • Prevent MFA passcodes with leading 0 from being truncated. [ QSTOR-10852 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes an issue where role-creation would fail due to deprecated permission-definitions. [ QSTOR-10988 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added support for the creation of mirror sets consisting of "quad-mirrors" (4-way mirror sets) for both the data device groups in the pool and also the "special" devices, such as "dedup" and "metadata offload" devices. [ QSTOR-10893 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Add more detail for logical and physical space utilization for volumes. [ QSTOR-10981 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Deprecates legacy package version pinning for the packages.osnexus.com mirror server that was causing issues with some ceph cluster upgrades [ QSTOR-10990 ]

  • Added protections in qs\_distupgrade.sh for lvm snapshots that could cause issues with the platform upgrade. [ QSTOR-10970 ]

  • Resolved multiple items that were causing issues with installing QuantaStor on redhat based platforms when STIG enforcement policies were present. [ QSTOR-10958 ]

Note: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install/upgrade script temporarily sets selinux to permissive mode and temporarily disables fapolicyd if it is enabled when the script is running and restores them to their original state when the script completes.

Web Manager

  • Auto select S3 tenant for S3 User when user create is invoked from context menu on the S3 tenant. [ QSTOR-11010 ]

  • Increase the width of grids to show the 'Correlated Device' column in the Add Log/Cache/Metadata Device to Pool dialog w/o the need for scrolling. [ QSTOR-10951 ]

  • Add an option to upload logs with no truncation. [ QSTOR-10925 ]

  • Add drawer support for the Corvault enclosure layout and rendering engine in the WUI. [ QSTOR-10796 ]