v5.5.3.229 (March 10th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.5.3.

Release Notes

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for Broadcom 9405W-16i and 9405W-16e controllers.


High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where iSCSI portal access could be dropped after Manual HA Failover.

  • Fixed: iSCSI portal settings will now perist on HA VIFs after failover

  • Fixed: HA VIFs now correctly show as 'static' for their config type.

  • Fixed an issue with iSCSI Portal advertising on Network Ports.

  • Added a default global iSCSI portal blocking for storage volume access if iSCSI is disabled on all Network Ports.

  • Added further retry logic and protections for the fast ZFS pool export used by High Availability failover. This corrects issues where a Manual HA failover could fail to export on the node that is relinquishing the Storage Pool.

v5.5.0.222 (December 19th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.5.0.

Release Notes

Ansible Module

  • Error message changed from "To create a normal share, the 'parent' parameter must be a valid storage pool." -> "To create a normal share, the 'pool' parameter must be a valid storage pool." [ QSTOR-6629 ]

  • Host remove operation now allows you to pass the 'flags' parameter allowing you to delete a host that is a member of a host group by passing the force flag. [ QSTOR-6631 ]

  • Published Ansible Module and Python client library that use QuantaStor REST API for automation. [ QSTOR-6025 ]

  • Running the playbooks to unassign a volume from a host that doesn't exist no longer throws an error. Instead the unassignment task exits with changed=false. [ QSTOR-6630 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added additional validation logic to the Modify S3 Object User Access Dialog. [ QSTOR-6664 ]

  • Added logic to filter the S3 User Access keys per cluster for the Ceph S3 User Access Delete Dialog. [ QSTOR-6640 ]

  • Added Per User Aggregate and Bucket Quota Management for Ceph scale-out Object Storage. [ QSTOR-6332 ]

  • Blocked the creation of storage volumes on erasure coded ceph pools since this feature is not available until ceph nautilus. [ QSTOR-6469 ]

  • Enhanced ceph related object enumeration calls. [ QSTOR-6495 ]

  • Fixed an issue related to Ceph Bucket creation after removing and re-adding S3/radosgw configurations. [ QSTOR-6637 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Ceph File System objects were not being deleted when the shadow pool object was deleted. [ QSTOR-6217 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the interface speed was showing as 'N/A' for bonded ports in the Ceph Create dialog. [ QSTOR-6553 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the QuantaStor OSD objects would temporarily disappear and then re-appear upon system boot. [ QSTOR-6493 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Ceph Journal device discovery. [ QSTOR-6624 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Ceph Monitor Discovery. [ QSTOR-6579 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Ceph Pool Profile names starting with a number that could cause OSD discovery to fail on a node. [ QSTOR-6681 ]

  • Fixed an issue with RadoGateway cleanup that could be encountered during S3 Ceph development / PoC testing where Ceph Clusters are created and deleted multiple times. [ QSTOR-6189 ]

  • Fixed an issue with recurring error messages pertaining to ceph clusters. [ QSTOR-6586 ]

  • Fixed: Ceph Block Storage Volumes will correctly show their utilized and Physical used space. [ QSTOR-6497 ]

  • Fixed: clarified the task description for Ceph user access delete. [ QSTOR-6661 ]

  • Improved pool options for dialogs in the web manager to filter out invalid pool types, specifically ceph pools. [ QSTOR-6347 ]

  • Refactored the naming convention for ceph related features. [ QSTOR-6432 ]

  • Renamed Ceph objects and related APIs. [ QSTOR-6340 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added additional Historical granularity to Grid Dashboards for Performance statistics. The Graphs also support a selection feature to zoom into a specific selection of a graph. [ QSTOR-6058 ]

  • Added clarification to Total Pool used size in the Network Share Dashboard [ QSTOR-4602 ]

  • Added CPU Usage graph to the Grid Dashboard for each node. [ QSTOR-4962 ]

  • Added more historical CPU statistics for dashboards. [ QSTOR-6645 ]

  • Added Server Image and Power Supply redundancy indicators to the Grid Dashboard view. [ QSTOR-6329 ]

  • Added Warning checks in the Config Analyzer for Storage Pools, Volumes and Network Shares that are detected to have sync=disabled set. sync=disabled is not recommended for production use and is now correctly flagged as an item to be resolved when running Config Analyzer checks. [ QSTOR-6529 ]

  • Fixed an issue with performance metrics not rendering when the user first logs into the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6607 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the Stats collector Telegraf service not stopping and restarting properly after deleting a Ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-6588 ]

  • Fixed an issue with adding and removing Ceph Monitors multiple times on the same Ceph Node. [ QSTOR-6588 ]

  • Fixed: Updated the alert(s) to be clearer when Storage Volumes, Network Shares and Storage Pools are configured with sync=disabled or sync=always. These alerts trigger only once upon system boot. [ QSTOR-6530 ]

Disk Management

  • Added a fix for formatting drives that do not support the direct I/O flag. [ QSTOR-6560 ]

  • Added logic to automatically synchronize the Hardware Enclosure Tag / Alternate Name field to other enclosure objects with the same Enclosure SAS Addresses after a Modify Hardware Enclosure operation. [ QSTOR-6363 ]

  • Added support for Host Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) disk devices from HGST. [ QSTOR-6264 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added better enclosure discovery and mapping support for LSI/Avago 9400 Series Cards, [ QSTOR-6464 ]

  • Added clearer error response for the Mark Disk as Good task when a Hardware Controller does not support that function. [ QSTOR-6461 ]

  • Added support Hardware Enclosure and Controller management support for the HGST Serv24+4N [ QSTOR-6513 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the on/off options for the Identify Hardware Unit for Adaptec RAID Controllers. [ QSTOR-6626 ]

  • Fixed: Marking or Unmarking a Hardware disk as a Hot Spare will now trigger a Hardware disk scan. [ QSTOR-6459 ]

  • Fixed: The Modify Controller Dialog will now correctly launch with the controller selected in the tree view. [ QSTOR-6444 ]

  • Updated arcconf management utility to 3.03.00. this updates support for Microsemi/Adaptec controller Hardware Enclosure and Controller support to include the latest models. [ QSTOR-6532 ]

  • Updated the Hardware disk Remove dialog to be multi-select. [ QSTOR-4208 ]

  • Updated the Mark Disk as Good dialog in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section to be multi-select. [ QSTOR-4207 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a check when creating an HA Failover Group on a Pool that has Storage Volumes with Active FC client connections. [ QSTOR-6248 ]

  • Added logic to make Manual HA Failover operations more robust in situations where network communication could be interrupted. This addresses issues where the relinquishing node may fail to export the storage pool completely before the new active node forces ownership to bring the client access online. [ QSTOR-6564 ]

  • Added logic to the HA failover Group where the Deactivated state ensures the HA Interface and Storage Pool remain pinned to the specific node where the HA group is located. This allows work to be performed during maintenance windows where reboot, cabling, networking or other infrastructure and/or hardware changes may be required, without concern of an automatic failover event being trigger. Manual Failover of the HA Failover Group are still allowed between nodes while in a deactivated state. Re-Activating the HA Failover group once maintenance work is completed will re-enable the automatic failover logic and associated policies. [ QSTOR-6512 ]

  • Added the ability to add and remove nodes in Site Clusters. [ QSTOR-4252 ]

  • Added the ability to disable iSCSI access on HA Virtual Interfaces. [ QSTOR-6483 ]

  • Added: Creating an HA VIF will now verify the IP address is not used on the network via a ping check before bringing the HA VIF online. [ QSTOR-3801 ]

  • Added logic to clear and repair error conditions with HA Group resources that can be caused by a user elsewhere on the network accidentally reusing the IP Address that is already assigned to the HA VIF. If multiple repair attempts fail because the IP Address is still in use outside of the QuantaStor appliances, an Alert will be raised on the QuantaStor informing administrative action is required. [ QSTOR-3801 ]

  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes occur with the HA virtual interface network access guards during an HA Failover while the pool and associated storage Volumes and network shares are not available. [ QSTOR-6599 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the site cluster services version would not appear immediately after creating a site cluster. [ QSTOR-6472 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the Storage Pool right-click Context menu's updating with the correct menu options when a HA failover group is removed/added. [ QSTOR-5753 ]

  • Fixed: After creating an HA Failover Group on a Storage Pool, the Storage Pool Grow; Add/remove Cache Device and Add/Remove Spare dialogs will now immediately update their available disk lists to include only shared drives available to both nodes. Previously a WebUI refresh was required. [ QSTOR-5753 ]

  • Fixed: removing the last HA VIF in a HA Failover Group now correctly transitions the HA Failover group into deactivated mode, disabling any automatic failover policies. [ QSTOR-1191 ]

  • Improved error messaging for corner cases when creating Site Cluster Heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-6458 ]

  • Updated the HA Failover ALUA state transitions to occur slightly earlier in the failover process. [ QSTOR-6592 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated QuantaStor Kernel driver packages to better support upgrades, maintenance and rollback in the event of a hardware compatibility issue. [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Intel igb driver to 5.3.5.39 [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Amazon ena driver to 2.1.2g [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Intel ixgbe driver to 5.6.3 [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Intel e1000e driver to 3.5.1-NAPI [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Intel i40e driver to 2.10.19.30 [ QSTOR-6081 ]

  • Updated Adaptec smartpqi driver to 1.2.8-026 [ QSTOR-6081 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Added extra validation to the Add Cloud Provider Credentials dialog. [ QSTOR-6667 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the description field could not be set via the web manager for cloud containers and their associated network shares. [ QSTOR-6259 ]

  • Fixed: Cleanup client access (NFS/SMB) to the cloud container shares after deleting the cloud container. [ QSTOR-6596 ]

  • Fixed: Fixed a field in the Add Cloud Provider with additional validation. [ QSTOR-6647 ]

  • Removed Softlayer swift Object Storage support as it has been deprecated as an option in IBM Cloud. [ QSTOR-6263 ]

  • Updated UI to remove legacy actions on cloud containers. [ QSTOR-6262 ]

Network Shares

  • Added a check to block Network Share rollback and restore if there are active SMB sessions. [ QSTOR-4562 ]

  • Fixed an issue with setting the recordsize on Network Shares. Valid Recordsize in Kilobytes are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 (default), 256, 512, or 1024 [ QSTOR-6394 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the ID Mapper field being empty for the Active Directory Dialog after a previously deployed autorid configuration is upgraded to 5.x [ QSTOR-6190 ]

  • Updated the CLI help for share-create and share-modify to better clarify the --share-owner-group and --user-access-list options. [ QSTOR-6327 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Added the ability to run custom async scripts similar to the existing custom scripts. [ QSTOR-6679 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the qs CLI commands pool-remove-read-cache, pool-remove-write-log and pool-remove-spare where a specified drive could not be removed. [ QSTOR-6668 ]

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Added Remote Replication for RBD Volumes between Ceph Block Storage pools of Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-5847 ]

  • Added Snapshot functionality and management for Ceph Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-6241 ]

  • Fixed a regression in volume modify for snapshots causing the snapshots to be shown as a parent volume. [ QSTOR-6593 ]

  • Fixed the logic for enabling the Active Replica Checkpoint icon and status for replicated _chkpnt Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-6689 ]

SCSI Target

  • Removed the ability to restart iSCSI services via the web ui. [ QSTOR-6547 ]

Service Core

  • Added checks for LACP switch port detection. This provides a warning state for LACP bond ports and/or specific slave interfaces if the connected switch port(s) do not advertise LACP. [ QSTOR-5131 ]

  • Added filtering to the Bonded Interface create dialog that hides already configured network interfaces from the available selection by default. This helps ensure users do not accidentally re-use the same network interface that is already configured serving management or client access. Support for re-using a configured network interface to create a bonded network interface is still supported by unchecking the 'Hide Configured Ports' option and answering affirmative to the informative pop-up that appears after clicking 'ok'. [ QSTOR-6471 ]

  • Changed the default Network Port bonding mode on new deployments to be active-backup. [ QSTOR-6559 ]

  • Changed the Link-state for Network Ports that are configured as Disabled to report 'Disabled' as their link state. This helps clarify the link-state because the Network interfaces Phy is not up on the network and not able to show the actual physical link state. [ QSTOR-6506 ]

  • Fixed an issue that blocked Modify Network interface operations on Virtual Interfaces on top of Bonded ports [ QSTOR-4729 ]

  • Fixed an issue that could allow deleting a VLAN or Bonded port underneath an Active HA Virtual interface. [ QSTOR-4873 ]

  • Fixed an issue where slave ports used in a bond would incorrectly have their vendor/model information overridden with [Bonded Interface]/[master]. This also fixes the issue where the slave ports would continue to have this incorrect after removing the parent bond configuration. [ QSTOR-6470 ]

  • Fixed an issue with modifying Virtual Interface ports and having the IP address change take effect. [ QSTOR-4673 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the --reset-password and --disable-mfa advanced administrative arguments for the QuantaStor service. [ QSTOR-6574 ]

  • Fixed local Network Interface verification for those selected for use during bonded port creation. [ QSTOR-6575 ]

  • Fixed: Delete Operations on interfaces with any child Virtual, VLAN or other logical interface are blocked until the child interface is first removed. [ QSTOR-6514 ]

  • Fixed: if a bonded port is created using an underlying network port that is specified as a preferred grid port, the new bonded interface will be marked as the new preferred grid port. [ QSTOR-6555 ]

  • Fixed: Modifying the MTU of a Network Port can now be done without having to force a full restart of the Network port. [ QSTOR-4940 ]

  • Fixed: Modifying the MTU of a Bond/VLAN or other Parent port correctly shows the change on the child interfaces. [ QSTOR-4940 ]

  • Fixed: Modifying a Network Port under a Virtual interface now correctly restarts the Virtual interface after the change to the parent port. [ QSTOR-4940 ]

  • Added a subnet check for Default Gateway IP addresses to ensure that they are accessible from the IP and subnet defined on the interface. [ QSTOR-4940 ]

  • Fixed an Issue where HA Virtual Interfaces would not restart if the parent port was modified. [ QSTOR-4940 ]

  • Fixed: The Create Virtual Interface and Create VLAN Interface now correctly shows the MTU option field as disabled as they inherit their MTU from their parent port. [ QSTOR-6480 ]

  • Fixed: The Modify network Interface Dialog now correctly shows the MTU option field as disabled for Interface types such as VLAN and Virtual interface that can only inherit their MTU from their parent port. all MTU changes should occur at the Bonded or Physical Port parent level. [ QSTOR-6501 ]

  • Fixed: Virtual Interfaces are automatically restarted after any modification of a Bonded, VLAN or Physical Network Port. [ QSTOR-6509 ]

  • Removed Legacy Virtual Interface 'Float' options from Network Interface section of the WebUI. The Bonded Network Interface options such as active-backup are the recommended way to have a highly available network interface configuration going forward. [ QSTOR-6510 ]

SNMP

  • Fixed an issue with enabling the SNMP Agent on QuantaStor Xenial and Bionic platforms. [ QSTOR-6430 ]

  • Updated wiki documentation for SNMP [ QSTOR-6572 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added a check to Storage Pool Delete that requires the force flag if there are Network Shares on the pool. [ QSTOR-5618 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the meta data for encrypted storage pools was not being updated properly. [ QSTOR-6323 ]

  • Fixed: Added checks to block operations on shares/volumes on top of Storage Pools in an offline/stopped state. [ QSTOR-6199 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed a bug with deleting storage volumes and their child snapshots. [ QSTOR-6361 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Resizing a Storage Volume could cause clients to disconnect. [ QSTOR-6683 ]

  • Fixed: refactored the Ceph Storage Volume Management logic. [ QSTOR-6265 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with kernel upgrades including the latest qstortarget driver packages. [ QSTOR-6582 ]

  • Fixed a corner case where removing a site cluster and running an upgrade including all security and system level patches would result in an upgrade failure. [ QSTOR-6698 ]

Web Manager

  • Added a pop-up clarifying the ZFS property sync=disabled is not recommended for production use when Creating or Modifying a Storage Volume, Network Share or Storage Pool with sync set to disabled. A sync setting of 'standard' is the recommended setting except for scenarios where 'always' is needed for specific application requirements. Please consults support@osnexus.com if you have any questions. [ QSTOR-6533 ]

  • Added additional validation checks and min/Max value tool tips to setting fields in the Storage System Optimization dialog. [ QSTOR-6218 ]

  • Added ceph cluster info to Scale-out Storage Pool tree view. [ QSTOR-6194 ]

  • Added information about the Ceph Cluster in the Delete S3 Object Storage Zone dialog. [ QSTOR-6476 ]

  • Added more information about Ceph Cluster to the Scale-out Storage Pool tree view and Storage Pool delete dialog. [ QSTOR-6465 ]

  • Added protections to the Network Port Modify dialog for HA, site and Grid VIF's to prevent modification of cluster managed IP address that should be removed/added as cluster resources for any IP address changes. [ QSTOR-6485 ]

  • Added: clicking on a specific configuration step in the Getting Started Dialog now opens the specific Dialog tab associated with that configuration step. [ QSTOR-6240 ]

  • Enhanced the auto selected storage system in the Format Physical Disk dialog. [ QSTOR-6608 ]

  • Fixed an issue that filtered out VLAN interfaces in the Storage System Modify Preferred Grid Port selection. [ QSTOR-6425 ]

  • Fixed an issue which would prevent the .rgw.root ceph pool from appearing in the Delet Storage Pool Dialog. [ QSTOR-6659 ]

  • Fixed an issue with populating the Network Ports in the grid view of some dialogs such as Cluster Ring Create. [ QSTOR-6526 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the License Manager dialog updating to reflect a newly added or activated license. [ QSTOR-6353 ]

  • Fixed an issue with visibility in Mozilla Firefox on Linux for the force option at the bottom of the Create Storage Pool dialog. [ QSTOR-6253 ]

  • Fixed miss labeling of input combo-box. Changed from 'Replication Link' -> 'Replication Association' [ QSTOR-6654 ]

  • Fixed the column widths for the Network port grid view to show full length IP addresses and subnet masks without truncation. [ QSTOR-6508 ]

  • Fixed the verbiage in the modify S3 Object User Access section. [ QSTOR-6658 ]

  • Fixed: in cases where no physical disks are available, dialogs that require physical disks will now indicate this in the corner. [ QSTOR-6500 ]

  • Fixed: the Delete Hardware Unit dialog now clearly identifies which Hardware unit corresponds to which raid controller in the drop down unit selection. [ QSTOR-6308 ]

  • Removed Gluster and iscsi services from the "Restart Storage Services" dialog as they were not related to Network Shares. [ QSTOR-6429 ]

  • Removed some references to Gluster in the web manager and specified 'Scale-Out File Storage (Gluster)' instead of just 'Scale-Out File Storage' [ QSTOR-6541 ]

  • Updated Chinese, Japanese, South Korean and Spanish Localizations for the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6303 ]

v5.4.4.150 (November 1st 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.4.4.

Release Notes

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fixed an issue where adding/importing a Cloud Container would fail when mapping an existing bucket that contains a large amount of data. [ QSTOR-6439 ]

  • Fixed an issue with adding/importing an existing Cloud Container to a specific QuantaStor node. [ QSTOR-6439 ]

  • Upgraded rclone to v1.49.5 [ QSTOR-6442 ]

v5.4.2.145 (October 1st 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.4.2.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed various ribbon bar and right click menu's in the Ceph Scale-out Storage Section of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6395 ]

  • Fixed an issue with cleaning up ports after deleting a rados gateway. [ QSTOR-6393 ]

  • Fixed an issue with placement group setup during Ceph Object Store create on slow hardware/VM's causing the operation to fail. [ QSTOR-6388 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue with detecting iofence status on virtual disk devices that do not support mutlipathing. [ QSTOR-6377 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed: Server images now correctly appear in the Hardware Enclosure view. [ QSTOR-6372 ]

Licensing

  • Increased supported grid size on Community Edition Licenses to four nodes. [ QSTOR-6412 ]

  • Enabled High Availability Storage Pools and other features on Community Edition Licenses. [ QSTOR-6412 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue where network share user/group configuration was not removed when leaving a domain and the 'Remove All Network Share AD User Access Entries' box is checked. [ QSTOR-6181 ]

REST API

  • Fixed an issue with Network Share REST API calls where cifsOptions and userAccessList parameters would be empty. [ QSTOR-6321 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Improved validation checks for clearing/changing pool passphrases. [ QSTOR-6311 ]

  • Fixed an issue with clearing a passphrase from an encrypted storage pool. [ QSTOR-5699 ]

v4.7.4.008 (September 19th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.4.

Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Implemented the new upgrade manager to handle platform upgrade from trusty 4.7.4 to xenial 5.x platform. This replaces the original qs-distupgrade command with a wrapper script. [ QSTOR-6355 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the kernel upgrade during a platform upgrade. [ QSTOR-6355 ]

  • Added a check during upgrade for legacy S3FS and S3QL cloud containers to block the upgrade and allow customers to contact OSNEXUS support for migration assistance to the new cloud container implementation. [ QSTOR-6368 ]

v5.4.0.134 (August 21st 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.4.0.

Release Notes

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated kernel to 4.15.0-54-generic

  • Updated SCST driver to 3.4.0 r8435

  • Updated SCST driver resolves an issue with client connectivity over iSCSI to Ceph RBD's.

  • Updated switchtec driver to 1.3

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added further right click context menu options in the Scale-out Configuration tabs.

  • Adds new scale-out NAS capabilities based on CephFS. QuantaStor now supports NFS and SMB based storage access using CephFS with compression and encryption capabilities.

  • Fixed an issue with the slider for capacity in the Resize Scale-out Storage Volume Dialog

  • Fixed: added a check to ensure at least one Ceph Zone exists before allowing users to create S3/SWITFT Object User Access.

  • Added Ceph S3 Bucket Management

  • Fixed an issue with mislabeled buttons in the Getting Started dialog.

Disk Management

  • Fixed a few corner cases with Multi-port NVMe device WERO/WEAR device preempt and re-registration.

  • Fixed an issue where a Storage Pool Destroy task was not formatting its Disks to free them up for further use.

  • improved disk UUID generation for VM instances (VSAs)

  • Fixed qs disk-format now allows use of the disk name as well as the new query filtering for the --disk-list argument.

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed, added logic to ensure the disk identify status is always synchronized for hardwared disk and physical disks objects in a high availability config.

  • Added logic to ensure manual changes to a disk identify/beacon LED is discovered and updated for hardware disk and physical disk objects.

  • Fixed: rebuild status on LSI Hardware controller RAID units will correctly update to show the rebuild status and percentage remaining for the operation.

  • Updated some hardware disk identify/beacon LED logic to be more generic for various controllers.

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed issue with some HA operations doing excessive logging at INFO level.

  • Fixed some corner cases where the reboot required indicator for HA pool export failures was not being cleared or would not be set when a clean pool export during failover failed to occur.

  • Redesigned the HA pool failover logic in the event of JBOD connectivity loss. failover is detected immediately and all pools in the system with the JBOD loss trigger a failover to the secondary node.

  • Adds additional VIF IP verification checks to ensure duplicate IPs are not used within the storage grid.

  • Fixed: the Add Grid Management right click context menu correctly opens the Add Grid VIF dialog.

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Adds Cloud Provider / Container support for Google Drive to make it accessible as a NAS Gateway target.

QuantaStor CLI

  • Added more detailed output to the 'qs share-get' commands.

  • Added --normalize flag to 'qs disk-list', 'qs hwd-list' and several other commands to allow for returning a reduced dataset scoped to the specific system and/or top level device in a list of device paths and device mapper devices.

  • Added a filter for 'qs disk-list' and commands that take the --disk-list argument to filter disks based on [used],[unused],[spare] and other filtering options. This allows for admins to quickly query QuantaStor to return a disk list detailing available drives, used drives or drives marked as dedicated and global spares.

  • Added a qs sys-ping command and storage system check API that performs a fast query of the connected QuantaStor system and returns it's hostname, Storage System ID and QuantaStor version.

  • Added filter options to the 'qs disk-list', 'qs create-pool' and 'qs disk-format' commands that allow for granular filtering of disk sets to get specific numbers and types of disks for these different operations.

  • Fixed an issue with passing disks in by name with 'qs pool-grow'

Security

  • Added support for IBM Key Protect as a Keyvault for storage pool encryption.

  • Improved Create Storage Pool dialog simplifies pool creation and introduces new encryption options including the use of keyvaults"

  • Added the ability to explicitly block and allow protocol ports for individual network interfaces and/or the system as a whole. These options are available via the Firewall tab in Storage System and Network Port modify as well as the 'qs network-port-modify' and 'qs system-modify' commands.

Service Core

  • Added the ability to merge and split Storage System Grids via the qs command line.

  • Fixed a few corner cases where DNS settings were not applying as expected for the latest QuantaStor platforms.

SNMP

  • Added additional alerts and SNMP traps around FC port and firewall issue detection.

  • Updated SNMP MIB

Storage Pool Management

  • Added Storage Pool Block Cleanup Priority tunable that allows users to change the priority for the asynchronous lazy block free space cleanup for deleted blocks on a Storage Pool.

  • Added support for manually exporting and importing Encrypted Storage Pools that have their pool key encrypted with a passphrase.

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent manually importing a previously manually exported pool that had been created with encryption without a passphrase.

  • Fixed an issue with importing encrypted storage pools on disks that do not support iofencing.

  • Fixed some issues with reusing disks which were used in a previously exported encrypted storage pool.

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added Intel and AMD microcode update packages to the ISO installer.

  • Added open-vm-tools to ISO installer.

  • Added support for offline ISO based upgrades from 5.x to the latest 5.x release.

  • Added support in the qs_upgrade script to manage bringing any version of the trusty platform upto the latest 5.x xenial platform release and kernel version.

  • Fixed a corner case where the Upgrade Manager dialog may not open when accessing the webUi via a FQDN that has subdomains.

  • Fixed the missing ping utility.

  • Fixed: the QuantaStor upgrade manager now detects the upgrade path for repoUrl based on the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/osnexus.list

Web Manager

  • Revised QuantaStor Getting Started Guide in the web interface greatly simplifies common tasks and introduces further workflows.

  • Updated progress indicator for various dialogs that require searching or backend queries before displaying or refreshing information.

  • Updated the confirmation dialog for format physical disk to have a clear Warning Icon.

  • Removes XFS pool creation from the WUI, it is still accessible from the QS CLI.

  • Updates to Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Chinese localization files.

  • Fixed an issue with the End User License Accept Dialog when entering a license key in the License Manager dialog.

  • Fixed an issue with being unable to scroll in the Replication Report view.

v5.3.1.085 (June 18th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.3.1.

Release Notes

Disk Management

  • Added support for Disk temperatures and SMART health state for NVMe devices. This is reported at the Physical Disk object layer. [ QSTOR-5576 ]

  • Removed a disk scan step that had been required during ZFS Pool import for older SSD disk firmware on the HGST Serv24HA platform. [ QSTOR-5720 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added isBlinking property for status indication for the HGST Serv24-HA disks Beacon LED. [ QSTOR-5975 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Hardware Enclosure and Controller service support for the HGST Serv24-HA. [ QSTOR-5964 ]

  • Updated the Disk Identify Manager API calls for Hardware Disk, Physical Disk Identify and Storage Pool Device object types. [ QSTOR-5761 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Added support for Wasabi S3 endpoints [ QSTOR-5960 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Renaming a Network Share will now immediately reflect the new share name in the Network Share Objects exports path. Previously the change would not occur immediately, requiring a Storage Pool discovery cycle to update the UI. [ QSTOR-5930 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Changed the qs cli to output error messages to stderr and report an error code on failure messages. [ QSTOR-5885 ]

  • Fixed the help text for the `qs spd-get` command. [ QSTOR-5791 ]

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Update the average data transfer on a replication report while the job is still running. [ QSTOR-5978 ]

  • Replication schedules are now able to start faster after a system reboot or service restart. [ QSTOR-5978 ]

Service Core

  • Added logfile management and rotation for advanced QuantaStor service diagnostic logs. [ QSTOR-5721 ]

  • Fixed: async rest and qs cli command calls that start a task now have the task object immediately available on all grid nodes for further query and task lifecycle tracking. [ QSTOR-5779 ]

  • Moved QuantaStor Management and associated service logs to /var/log/qs/ subdirectory. [ QSTOR-5934 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5990 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: RAID10 is now the default raid type selected in the Create Storage Pool dialog when there are 4 or more disks available for creating a storage pool [ QSTOR-5989 ]

  • Fixed: Storage Pool import on backing iSCSI LUNs consumed by QuantaStor that had prior SCSI-3 PR will now preempt and re-register the key to correct iSID session changes. [ QSTOR-5778 ]

  • Fixed: using the force flag for the Storage Pool Create will ensure a full quick Disk format and partition cleanup occurs similar to formatting a physical disk in the Physical Disk section. [ QSTOR-5983 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added more detailed logging status for the Upgrade Manager. [ QSTOR-5924 ]

  • Fixed a few corner case items with the qs-upgrade script that required manual corrections.

  • Added logic to the qs-upgrade and qs-distupgrade scripts to ensure the ceph user and group exists when upgrading from the Ceph Jewel release.

  • Added logic to the qs-upgrade script to ensure dpkg is version 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 or later when on the Trusty platform" [ QSTOR-5977 ]

Web Manager

  • Added a spinning indicator to the Upgrade Manager dialog for when it is first launched and is in process of discovering the latest package versions. [ QSTOR-5880 ]

  • Added a spinning indicator to the Import Cloud Container dialog for when you click the search button to locate existing buckets. [ QSTOR-5880 ]

  • Added Server Layout image customization to the Modify Storage System Dialog. This can be viewed in the Storage System>System Information tab. [ QSTOR-5796 ]

v4.7.3.004 (June 18th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.3.

Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a few corner case items with the qs-upgrade script that required manual corrections.

  • Added logic to the qs-upgrade and qs-distupgrade scripts to ensure the ceph user and group exists when upgrading from the Ceph Jewel release.

  • Added logic to the qs-upgrade script to ensure dpkg is version 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 or later when on the Trusty platform

v5.3.0.074 (May 29th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.3.0.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block and Object

  • Added obfuscation for Ceph user S3/Swift Access keys in the WebUI. You can now click on the fields to reveal the access keys and enable copying the data. [ QSTOR-5910 ]

  • Fixed an issue with OSD Identify for Chassis Enclosure services. [ QSTOR-5394 ]

  • Fixed an issue that would allow users to accidentally delete the default Ceph Crush Rules and Ceph Pool Profiles. [ QSTOR-5510 ]

  • Fixed an issue with error messages pertaining to invalid names from the ceph pool profile enum task. [ QSTOR-5916 ]

  • Fixed an issue with iptables rules for radosgw. When enabling S3/Swift access on a network port, both port 80 and port 443 are forwarded to the HTTP Rados Gateway port. [ QSTOR-5841 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Modifying a Ceph users Secret/Access Keys. [ QSTOR-5837 ]

  • Fixed: Ceph now always has a default pool profile allowing Pool creation. [ QSTOR-5850 ]

  • Increased response time to change the Ceph Crush Rule on an existing Ceph Pool [ QSTOR-5513 ]

  • Replaced qs CLI option 'ceph-crush-rule-create' with 'ceph-crush-rule-create-erasure' and 'ceph-crush-rule-create-replicated' as the required arguments and options required two sets of commands. [ QSTOR-5803 ]

  • Fixed an issue where some OSDs were not being created. [ QSTOR-5499 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the Dialog options resetting in the Create WAL device dialog after adjusting the number of partitions slider. [ QSTOR-5806 ]

  • Adjusted the layout and flow of the Ceph ribbon bar in the web UI. [ QSTOR-5914 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added various checks and warnings for the config analyzer in the web UI. [ QSTOR-3990 ]

  • Fixed: Storage Volumes and Storage Pools now both show their Latency Graphs in Milliseconds. [ QSTOR-5851 ]

  • Added ZFS (ARC) Cache statistics graphing for Storage Systems. [ QSTOR-3540 ]

  • Added Average trend lines to I/OPs, Bytes and Latency Graphs. [ QSTOR-5873 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue where NVME devices without a scsi ID could be correlated as used by a Storage Pool created on a NVME device without a scsi ID. [ QSTOR-5937 ]

  • Added filtering to prevent scanning zvol's or rbd's for LVM information. [ QSTOR-5881 ]

  • Fixed an issue with formatting disks that had previously been used for Ceph Bluestore OSD's without the OSD remove process being run on the drive. [ QSTOR-5751 ]

  • Fixed: Disk Formatting tasks that fail due to an I/O error will now report the disk format as failed. [ QSTOR-5626 ]

  • Added detection of Disks with Shingled Magnetic Recording that are not zoned for writing. These drives will properly indicate this state in the CLI and WebUI. [ QSTOR-5894 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Disk identify support for HGST Serv24 NVMe. [ QSTOR-5743 ]

  • Added vendor property to the Hardware Controller Disks model. [ QSTOR-5797 ]

  • Fixed an issue with detecting MegaRAID CacheCade RAID units. [ QSTOR-5833 ]

  • Fixed: RAID0 Passthrough disks created on Raid controllers are now set to write-thru mode by default. [ QSTOR-5866 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a warning state and state detail indicating a reboot is required to Storage Systems if a HA storage pool failed to export during a failover. [ QSTOR-4241 ]

  • Added a periodic alert for Storage Systems with the 'requiresReboot' flag set that will trigger once a day to recommend the storage system be rebooted. [ QSTOR-4241 ]

  • Fixed an issue with a internal tool used by customer support. [ QSTOR-5625 ]

  • Fixed: the zfs pool export logic has been updated to make failure scenarios easier to diagnose and correctly trigger failure events and alerts. [ QSTOR-705 ]

  • Fixed an issue with iofencing to ensure we can always re-register for backing disk devices that were already registered due to a changed iSCSI initiator handle (from rebooting the QuantaStor node or disconnecting/reconnecting the software iSCSI adapter). [ QSTOR-5780 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Added the "Add Credentials' options to the Cloud Container Lefthand tree view and Central Cloud Container grid right click context menus. [ QSTOR-5805 ]

  • Added support for creating custom Ceph object storage endpoints for the NAS Gateway/Cloud Container through the Quantastor UI. [ QSTOR-5876 ]

  • Fix UI issue in reporting failure during scan buckets and reset bucket list for cloud provider change. [ QSTOR-5522 ]

  • Updated rclone to 1.47.0 [ QSTOR-5893 ]

Network Shares

  • Added logic that persists File Access Control List options through pool export and re-imports. [ QSTOR-5567 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed an issue with running the qs-version command as a non-root user to check the current QuantaStor service version. [ QSTOR-5790 ]

  • Fixed some error codes for the 'qs' CLI [ QSTOR-5826 ]

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Fixed: Added logic to automatically cleanup Remote Replication metadata for replicated Network Shares. [ QSTOR-5863 ]

  • Fixed an issue with rolling back to a previous snapshot of a volume. [ QSTOR-4856 ]

SCSI Target

  • Fixed an issue with the SCST copy manager target lun missing for _chkpnt or rbd volumes. This prevented client access for some clients when the lun was mapped out. [ QSTOR-5816 ]

  • Fixed an issue with removing iSCSI/FC LUN access assignments on Storage Volume Replica checkpoints that could lead to a kernel panic. [ QSTOR-5813 ]

Security

  • Fixed an issue with custom self-signed ssl certificates generated by the qs-sslcert command. [ QSTOR-5875 ]

  • Fixed an issue with reverting to the default certificates if the user had previously deployed custom self-signed certificates using the qs-sslcert scripts. [ QSTOR-5875 ]

  • Enhance security against cross-site scripting attacks. [ QSTOR-5935 ]

  • Fixed an issue with potential user enumeration. [ QSTOR-5872 ]

  • Fixed an issue with password field access for authenticated users. [ QSTOR-5872 ]

  • Updated additional password Fields in the UI to be obfuscated by default. [ QSTOR-5838 ]

Server Integration

  • Fixed an issue with ipmi messaging in the quantastor service log on Virtual machines that do not support ipmi. [ QSTOR-5927 ]

  • Fixed the ipmi hardware support to not run on Virtual Machine Platforms that do not have access to IPMI hardware. [ QSTOR-5925 ]

  • Added IPMI IP, subnet, gateway and Mac Address to storage system properties for systems with IPMI/iLo onboard. [ QSTOR-5908 ]

  • Added IPMI sensor support for Cisco C240 M5 for PSU, Fan and CPU temperature and System temperature. [ QSTOR-5904 ]

  • Added /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_ipmi.conf configuration file for adding custom ipmi sensor names for PSU state, Fans and Temperatures of PCH, CPU and System. [ QSTOR-5493 ]

  • Added alerting on IPMI/iLO sensors for PSU redundancy status change. [ QSTOR-5007 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue where 10gb interfaces would sometimes report link speed as 1gb even though they were running at 10gb. [ QSTOR-5269 ]

  • Unified the reporting of Temperatures to be Celsius and in the default display format of 'NN C ( NN.N F)' [ QSTOR-5793 ]

  • Added 'requiresReboot' flag to Storage System objects for indicating if a reboot is required for the storage system. [ QSTOR-5855 ]

  • Added ability to send support logs without a license key. [ QSTOR-3979 ]

  • Consolidated default configuration files under the /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf directory. [ QSTOR-5800 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the telegraf configuration if there is no Ceph configuration deployed on QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-5868 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5884 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed the ZFS Event Daemon zedlets to use the correct path for ZFS 0.7 and newer. [ QSTOR-5929 ]

  • Fixed the ZFS Storage Pool resilver alerting to report the resilver is in progress along with the resilver percentage. [ QSTOR-5886 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Enclosure Redundancy mapping for ZFS vdev's. [ QSTOR-5887 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the reported used space on Storage Pools in the Grid Dashboard view. [ QSTOR-5694 ]

  • Fixed: reduced the time for the spare disk marker to be cleared from a drive that is added to a storage pool to replace a failed disk. [ QSTOR-5498 ]

  • Fixed: updated the zpool raw size(before redundancy and metadata allocation) to be more accurate. [ QSTOR-5867 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the Pool RAIDType when multiple ZFS SLOG mirrors are present on a storage pool. This would previously cause issues with storage pool grow operations. [ QSTOR-5858 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed: The Storage Volume Create Dialog will now correctly create GigaByte/TeraByte/PetaByte sized Volumes (base10 multiple of 1000) if the size is specified with 'GB','TB','PB'. Specifying just the letter e.g. 'G' or providing 'GiB' will create a Gibibyte volume (base2 multiple of 1024) as before. Using the Slider will continue to create Volumes in Mebibyte/Gibibyte sizes. [ QSTOR-5860 ]

  • Adjust size conversions when specifying the size property of a storage volume from the CLI. This adds support for creating volumes via the CLI in GigaByte/TeraByte/PetaByte sizes (base10 x1000) if specified in 'GB','TB',PB' shorthand. QuantaStor will continue todefault creating volumes in (base2 x1024) standard if the user specifies only the first letter or full shorthand. e.g. ('G' or 'GiB/GIB'). [ QSTOR-5864 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue where Snapshots for Network Shares would appear in the central grid 'Network Shares' tab. [ QSTOR-5938 ]

  • Fixed an issue where some dialog box text fields allowed editing of informational text. [ QSTOR-5902 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Enhanced the Upgrade Manager Dialog to allow upgrading specific multiple nodes all at the same time. note: this only works for 5.3 or newer releases. Releases older than 5.3 will need to be upgraded from the CLI via qs-upgrade. [ QSTOR-3976 ]

  • The WebUI now installs full platform Security and Stability updates alongside the core QuantaStor package updates. [ QSTOR-3976 ]

  • Updated qs-upgrade script to unify WebUI and CLI upgrade options. [ QSTOR-3976 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the upgrade repositories that could indicate a package downgrade is required for some dependencies. [ QSTOR-5956 ]

v5.2.1.002 (May 1st 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.2.1.

Release Notes

Upgrade Repository and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with the rclone package naming for correct repository availability.

  • Fixed an issue with the updated installer kernel drivers loading when a Trusted Platform Module is present in the system.

Core Service

  • Fixed an issue with string conversion of Petabyte sizes with new ZFS userspace utilities.

v5.2.0.088 (April 4th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.2.0.

Release Notes

Base Platform Upgrade Available

  • Enabled Platform upgrades from Trusty to Xenial. To upgrade the platform run 'qs-distupgrade' after upgrading fully to v4.7.2. This will bring your system to the very latest QuantaStor 5.x version and supported linux kernel on the Xenial Platform. Please contact support@osnexus.com for any questions or upgrade assistance.

Alert Manager

  • Added support for Mattermost for call-home alerts [ QSTOR-5711 ]

Ceph

  • Added Ceph Pool Dashboard that shows I/O statistics for Throughput and I/Ops. [ QSTOR-4497 ]

  • Added support for Object Storage Tenant accounts in Ceph User creation. [ QSTOR-5660 ]

  • Added the ability to create Ceph Crush Rules via the WebUI for replicated pool types. [ QSTOR-5471 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the OSD device type validation when creating a Ceph Crush map rule. [ QSTOR-5718 ]

  • Fixed you can now add a custom Description when creating Ceph Crush Rules. [ QSTOR-5770 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the 'ceph osd dump' calls were not returning a complete payload [ QSTOR-5703 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the Cluster Monitor and Cluster Member grids were reported differing Monitor Status. [ QSTOR-5677 ]

  • Fixed an issue with ceph OSD discovery with bad or offline OSDs. [ QSTOR-5343 ]

  • Fixed an issue with ceph rados gateway not starting up correctly [ QSTOR-5004 ]

  • Fixed an issue with OSD clean up after a ceph cluster delete operation. [ QSTOR-5781 ]

  • Refactored Ceph Pool Modify to accept Crush Rule Name or Id as input. [ QSTOR-5474 ]

  • Fixed some spacing issues and enable properties view of the Ceph Pool Profile object. [ QSTOR-5783 ]

Cloud Containers

  • Fixed an issue where ZFS Volumes were filtered out of the Cloud Backup policy dialog. [ QSTOR-5749 ]

  • Fixed an issue with selecting the 'Assign to Group' checkbox in the Modify Cloud Backup Schedule dialog without selecting a group from the drop down menu. [ QSTOR-5220 ]

Disk Management

  • Added Drive Temperature property and Grid display column to the Physical Disks in the Web Interface for NVMe and SMART health reporting disks. [ QSTOR-5764 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Physical Disk discovery for Legacy DGC SAN LUN's that do not correctly issue T10 style device serial identifiers [ QSTOR-5686 ]

  • Increased Hard Disk temperature warning threshold to 56 degrees celsius. [ QSTOR-5596 ]

  • Fixed an issue with marking a Physical disk as a Global spare disk on a remote storage system in the grid that has a different Hard disk controller type. [ QSTOR-5774 ]

Gluster

  • Fixed an issue with the quantastor service crashing after creating subshares on a gluster volume [ QSTOR-5221 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed Enclosure slot mapping for the S2122-N24-4 NVMe server chassis to map the PCI-E paths correctly for each slot and to leave gaps if a slot is empty. [ QSTOR-5775 ]

  • Fixed: the 'Mark disk as Good' right click menu option in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section is now correctly context sensitive to RAID controllers that support that disk state and action. [ QSTOR-5053 ]

High Availability

  • Fixed an issue with the isVirtualInterface flag being set properly on Site Cluster Virtual Interfaces (VIFs). [ QSTOR-5622 ]

Storage Pools

  • Added automatic metadata import for Network Share objects when importing a previously manually exported storage pool. [ QSTOR-5564 ]

  • Fixed an issue related to updating iofencing when importing QuantaStor ZFS Storage pools on iSCSI backend storage after a reboot. [ QSTOR-5769 ]

  • Fixed an issue where local disk devices were not being filtered out for grow and spare add operations on High Availability failover Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-4576 ]

  • Fixed an issue with ensuring VDEV redundancy across multiple JBODs when creating encrypted storage pools. [ QSTOR-4830 ]

  • Fixed an issue with ZFS Storage ool Import. This corrects a regression introduced in 5.1.0. [ QSTOR-5727 ]

  • Fixed an issue with updating the zpool resilver percent completion value. [ QSTOR-5548 ]

  • Fixed: removing multiple cache devices from an encrypted pool correctly closes and removes encryption from each device. [ QSTOR-2415 ]

  • Fixed an issue where the spare device count for pools was not being updated properly [ QSTOR-5058 ]

  • Fixed an issue with removing read cache devices from zfs pools. [ QSTOR-5124 ]

Installer ISO

  • Updated ISO creation to allow writing iso as a dd image for uefi on Linux and Mac Clients [ QSTOR-5705 ]

  • Updated TPM installer option to use Ubuntu Xenial standard secure boot support. [ QSTOR-5728 ]

iSCSI Software Adapter

  • Refactor how missing iSCSI targets are handled and auto retry login. [ QSTOR-5041 ]

Kernel

  • Added PCK7 Signatures to all Linux Kernel drivers built and packaged by OSNEXUS required for secure boot support. [ QSTOR-5603 ]

  • Updated drivers [ QSTOR-5554 ]

i40e: 2.7.29 ixgbe: 5.5.5 igb: 5.3.5.20 e1000e: 3.4.2.4 ena: 2.0.2g megaraid_sas: 07.708.03.00 mpt3sas: 29.00.00.00 aacraid: 1.2.1.57013 bxt_en: 1.9.1-212.0.137.0 mlx: 4.5-1.0.1 hpsa: 3.4.20-125 sfc: 4.15.2.1001 arcmsr: v1.40.0X.09-20180709 scst: 3.4.0 smartpqi: 1.2.4-065 zfs: 0.7.13


Localization I8N

  • Added support for South Korean localization. Append '?locale=ko' to the QuantaStor Web Manager URL to use. [ QSTOR-4326 ]

Multifactor Authentication

  • Fixed an issue where the passcode field would be disabled even though it was selected as a drop down option when logging in using Multi-factor Authentication. [ QSTOR-5642 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the Multi-factor Authentication timeout in the event the authentication verification server is not available. [ QSTOR-5211 ]

Network Shares

  • Enabled ports above 1024 for NFS access rules by default. [ QSTOR-5595 ]

  • Added 'Allow Full Port Range Access' to 'Modify NFS Client Access' dialog. [ QSTOR-5595 ]

Snapshots, Remote Replication and Backup policies

  • Added ability to retain hourly snapshots from replication schedules, snapshot schedules, and backup policies. [ QSTOR-5674 ]

Platform

  • Enabled Platform upgrades from Trusty to Xenial. To upgrade the platform run qs-distupgrade after upgrading fully to v4.7.2. This will bring your system to the very latest QuantaStor 5.x version and linux kernel on the Xenial Platform. Please contact support@osnexus.com for any questions or upgrade assistance. [ QSTOR-5565 ]

  • Fixed an issue with offline upgrades on xenial [ QSTOR-5262 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue where the Calendar widget in dialogs that could schedule dates, would not show month or allow editing in some browsers. [ QSTOR-5767 ]

  • Fixed several error dialog windows for proper context. [ QSTOR-5675 ]

  • Fixed: when no pools were created on a grid, the Dashboards Free capacity will now only be reported once. [ QSTOR-5740 ]

  • Fixed the width of the iSCSI Target login/logout dialog grid view to ensure all selected columns are visible when scrolling. [ QSTOR-5676 ]

  • Refactored the Storage Volume Create and Modify dialogs [ QSTOR-5502 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5645 ]

Core Service

  • Fixed an issue with Legacy ethX network naming where the interfaces after reboot would be incorrect and not start from 0 [ QSTOR-5707 ]

  • Fixed an issue with log spamming for FC adapter discovery. [ QSTOR-5550 ]

  • Fixed an issue with object ownership being updated after a grid master election. [ QSTOR-5652 ]

  • Fixed: QuantaStor will no longer create a second encrypted swap device if one already exists on the system. [ QSTOR-5629 ]

  • Fixed an issue where QS would try to continually re-discover network ports which are marked as 'missing'. [ QSTOR-5403 ]

  • Fixed an issue with influxDB queries failing [ QSTOR-5656 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the telegraf service not starting properly on xenial platform. [ QSTOR-4842 ]

v5.1.1.008 (March 7th 2019)

QuantaStor 5.1.1 was deprecated for the 5.1.2 release.

Release Notes

Installer

  • Updated Installer ISO [ QSTOR-5684 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with customizing the Network Share record size. [ QSTOR-5641 ]

Authentication

  • Fixed a management service crash related to multi-factor authentication. [ QSTOR-5640 ]

Storage Volume

  • Fixed an issue preventing the creation of passthru Storage Volumes from raw disk devices. [ QSTOR-5636 ]

Disk Devices

  • Fixed an issue with NVME device support. [ QSTOR-5646 ]

Core Service

  • Fixed: The Auto-restart logic for the QuantaStor Management service was updated for the Xenial platform. [ QSTOR-5628 ]

v5.1.0.160 (Feb 14th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.1.0.

Release Notes

  • Updated QuantaStor update repository to a new distribution namespace of 'quantastor-xenial' for future upgrades. [ QSTOR-5609 ]

Ceph

  • Added a quick disk format to OSD creation to ensure a disk is clean of any prior partitioning and formatting before use. [ QSTOR-5341 ]

Storage pools

  • Added 'Storage System Optimization' dialog that includes additional tunable controls for ZFS Storage Pool performance settings. [ QSTOR-5583 ]

  • Added 'qs tunable-*' command sets that allow for CLI configuration of the settings available in the 'Storage System Optimization' dialog. for more information on the commands and their usage please see 'qs help=tunable' [ QSTOR-5543 ]

  • Adds more detail to the Storage Pool Delete warning pop-up to clarify for users what Storage Pool on which QuantaStor node is to be deleted when they click the 'Yes' to confirm the deletion. [ QSTOR-5623 ]

  • Fixed an issue on Virtual Machines where the wrong disk block size(ashift) was being specified during ZFS Pool creation. [ QSTOR-5570 ]

  • Added logic to select the highest matching block size (ashift) for a disk set during ZFS pool creation. [ QSTOR-5570 ]

  • Added checks for ZFS pool creation to ensure that physical disk blocksizes(ashift) up to 64k are supported. Disks with blocksizes larger than 64k are not supported with the ZFS filesystem pool type at this time and will generate an error during ZFS Storage Pool creation recommending the use of disks with a 64k or lower blocksize. [ QSTOR-5570 ]

  • Fixed an issue with creating encrypted pools with passphrase, this corrects a regression introduced in 5.0 [ QSTOR-5621 ]

  • Fixed an issue with encrypting ATA devices. This corrects an issue introduced in the 5.0 release. [ QSTOR-5575 ]

  • Fixed an issue with system boot after creating Encrypted Storage Pools [ QSTOR-5627 ]

  • Fixed: manually importing a Storage Pool now immediately performs iofencing of the disk devices during the import process. [ QSTOR-5540 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Changed the default blocksize used during storage volume creation from 128k to 8k. [ QSTOR-5570 ]

  • Removed the ambiguous 'auto' option from the blocksize selection storage volume create and modify dialogs. 8k will now be the default selection and setting in the WebUi and for qs cli volume creation." [ QSTOR-5570 ]

  • Updated the Storage Volume Create Dialog with the same Compression, sync and blocksize options as the Storage Volume Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-5495 ]


High Availability

  • Adds high Availability iofencing support for NVME shared storage devices. [ QSTOR-5447 ]

  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes leave VIF cluster ports on QuantaStor 5.0 after deletion by a user. [ QSTOR-5616 ]

  • Fixed an issue with HA cluster discovery introduced in the platform change in 5.0 [ QSTOR-5176 ]


Installer

  • Added a new EFI installer option for systems that have a TPM module. [ QSTOR-5572 ]


NAS Gateway / Cloud Container

  • Renamed the Cloud Container tab in the WebUI to 'NAS Gateway' [ QSTOR-5468 ]

  • Various Improvements to the Cloud Container management section of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-5468 ]

  • Fixed an issue with creating Cloud Containers in some Amazon S3 regions. [ QSTOR-5557 ]

  • Removed Cloud Container 'Repair', 'Modify' and 'Remove' context menu options that are no longer required for the deduplication s3ql style Cloud Containers that was deprecated in QuantaStor 5.0. [ QSTOR-5552 ]


Network Shares

  • Updated the Network Share Show Mount Command Dialog to prioritize the IP used in the mount command based on Link Speed and if the Interface is a VIF. A drop-down IP and interface selection now allows users to easily customize the mount command output. [ QSTOR-4651 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Network Share namespaces where /export bind mounts were being placed on systems outside of the namespace. [ QSTOR-4977 ]

  • Improved filtering and visibility for snapshot parent shares in the Network Share Multi-Delete dialog to make manually removing Snapshots easier on configurations with many snapshots. [ QSTOR-5427 ]

Remote Replication

  • Changed Storage System Link in qs CLI to 'Replication Link' e.g. the commands are now 'qs replication-link-create' 'qs replication-link-list' 'qs replication-link-get' etc. [ QSTOR-5619 ]

  • Added a clarification for the Replication link speed bandwidth limiter to also show MegaBits per second (Mb/s) in addition to the details for MegaBytes (MB/s) per second that were already shown. [ QSTOR-5535 ]

Gluster

  • Fixed an issue where pvdisplay commands would hang after Gluster config tear down. [ QSTOR-5223 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Storage Systems would be listed twice in the Gluster Peer Detach Dialog [ QSTOR-5525 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue with showing the users inside of a Multitenancy>Resource Group [ QSTOR-5591 ]

ZFS

  • Fixed: enabled zvol_request_sync=1 for the ZFS 0.7.12 driver to resolve a kernel panic that can occur in some Storage Volume use cases. This tunable 'sst_zvol_request_sync' is managed via the new 'qs tunable-*' CLI commands. [ QSTOR-5612 ]

Core Service

  • Added support for authenticated shutdown of a QuantaStor node initiated by APC UPS's with apsupsd. [ QSTOR-5592 ]

  • Fixed an issue preventing the ZFS Event Daemon service from running on QuantaStor 5.0 [ QSTOR-5580 ]

Disk Management

  • Added the ability to blink storage pool device groups (vdevs) via the CLI with 'qs spdg-list' and 'qs spdg-ident' commands. [ QSTOR-5566 ]

  • Fixed an issue where a disk format task would show as 100% completed even though the format actually failed due to iofencing preventing write access. [ QSTOR-5555 ]

  • Fixed: when formatting disks and choosing to clear iofencing, the iofencing is now cleared first to ensure formatting can complete without a denial for write access. [ QSTOR-5617 ]

Hardware Controller and Enclosure Management

  • Updated Acromove ServerPack enclosure information to match current offerings. [ QSTOR-5614 ]

  • Updated Hardware Unit Identify Dialog to allow on, off and duration specific identification for supported Hardware Raid unit enclosure slot identification. [ QSTOR-5562 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5604 ]

v5.0.0.093 (Dec 21st 2018)

Note: for IBM Cloud / SoftLayer users

As an addendum to Event 73376867 QuantaStor 5.x will be replacing QuantaStor 4.x in the IBM Cloud starting April 1st, 2019. After April 1st QuantaStor 5.x will be the available provisioning version for new deployments. Long term maintenance and updates for existing installations of QuantaStor 4.x will be enabled with migrating to QuantaStor 5.x starting with the release of QuantaStor 4.7.2 mid-March, 2019.

For assistance with upgrading an existing QuantaStor 4.x system to QuantaStor 5.x please contact IBM Cloud Support.

QuantaStor 5.0.0 Upgrade Instructions

QuantaStor 5.0.0 was released as ISO media. Upgrades from QuantaStor 4.x to 5.x will be available with the release of QuantaStor 4.7.2.

QuantaStor 5.0.0 Installation Media

QuantaStor v5.0.0 is available at the link here: QuantaStor v5.0.0 ISO md5

Release Notes

Release Highlights:

  • Base Platform upgraded to Ubuntu Xenial.

  • Linux Kernel updated to 4.15.0-36-generic.

  • Updated Ceph version to Luminous.

  • New Ceph OSD's will use Bluestore as their backing storage providing a large performance improvement.

  • Added Encryption at rest for Ceph OSD devices.

  • Added Ceph Crush Map management via Ceph Pool Profiles.

  • Added Ansible Automation support, contact OSNEXUS Sales Engineering for details.

  • Updated Cloud Container (NAS Gateway) backend to provide better performance scaling and support for additional Cloud Providors from Microsoft Azure and Backblaze.

  • Added Configuration Analyzer to help users more easily identify problems and address them.

  • Added IPMI sensor monitoring for server models from Dell, HPE, Cisco, Intel, Supermicro, and Lenovo.

  • Added support for HPE’s NV-DIMM technology for use in scale-out object and block storage configurations.

v4.7.0.231 (Nov 5th 2018)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.0.

Release Notes

Key improvements:

  • Updated megaraid_sas driver to 07.706.03.00

  • Cisco Duo Multifactor Authentication Support - MFA framework

  • Cloud Container support for mapping Dropbox folders as NAS Gateway shares

  • Improved support for Network Share Quotas with alert threshold

  • Getting Started dialog simplifies common configuration tasks like setting up object storage and provisioning file and block storage.

  • Automatic Storage Pool device selection in web UI selects drives in sets to ensure disk enclosure fault-toleranance

  • Grid-wide configuration of DNS/NTP server settings in an single dialog

  • Storage Pools now show RAID set (vdevs) groupings to simplify management of large pools with 100s of drives

  • Improved pool and device health alerting, management and LED blink activation system

  • Integrated server hardware monitoring and platform detection with alerting on server hardware issues including failed fans, power supplies, and high temperature.