v5.7.1.138 (August 10th 2020)
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Release Highlights
Platform Support
Added Bionic as a supported platform. Bionic is the Default for new ISO deployments.
Added CentOS 7.8 as a supported platform for QuantaStor
Drivers
Updated SCST Driver to 3.5
Updated ZFS Driver for Bionic and CentOS platforms to 0.8.4
Updated various system and network drivers.
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
Redesigned the OSD & Journal Create dialog with a new Auto-Config option that preselects similar SSDs for Journal and HDDs for OSD Data disks. [ QSTOR-7281 ]
Web Manager
Enhanced the Web UI to support contextual highlighting of ZFS or Ceph Storage Pool Device Groups and their Storage Pool Device members in the Pool Enclosure View. [ QSTOR-7261 ]
Release Notes
Alerts and Configuration Analysis
Added support for config analysis check for ECC RAM [ QSTOR-7100 ]
Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File
Fixed an issue with creating shares on a Ceph Filesystem pool on CentOs. [ QSTOR-7305 ]
Added a check to ensure selected available disks are Formatted for use prior to Ceph Journal Group create. [ QSTOR-7299 ]
Added logic to Block ceph pool create for replica count greater than the number of nodes in the ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-7298 ]
Redesigned the OSD & Journal Create dialog with a new Auto-Config option that preselects similar SSDs for Journal and HDDs for OSD Data disks. [ QSTOR-7281 ]
Fixed issue where the ui would show an incorrect Monitor Status for a Ceph Cluster Member. [ QSTOR-7278 ]
Fixed: Validate the erasure code for the given number of members in the ceph cluster during CephFS pool create and ceph object pool create. [ QSTOR-7269 ]
Added Logic to Block Ceph Cluster Create if system has less than 4GB RAM. [ QSTOR-7253 ]
Fixed a Web UI issue where a Pool would be deleted, but the enclosure view for that Pool would remain. [ QSTOR-7246 ]
Added logic to the Ceph Cluster create to automatically disable multipathing on the disks on the nodes in the newly created cluster and rescan the physical disks to switch the disk device paths to those supported for OSD creation. [ QSTOR-7225 ]
Fixed: Prevent Ceph object storage pool from showing in the create share dialog. [ QSTOR-7219 ]
Fixed an issue with creating new monitors on Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-7218 ]
Fixed: When an OSD goes into the Offline state, the associated Storage Pool Devices now reflect that state in the tree view as state icons are now supported. [ QSTOR-7213 ]
Fix minor warning alert raised during multiple OSD create. [ QSTOR-7209 ]
Fixed: Set the optional 'admin socket mode', in the ceph.conf, to '0775'. This allows members of the ceph group to have access to OSD/MON sockets (for R/W). This is required for monitoring ceph using the telegraf ceph plugin. [ QSTOR-7203 ]
Add QS cli to list ceph crash list and archive the crash. [ QSTOR-7202 ]
Fixed: Automatically Archive OSD crash if the OSD is in a healthy state again. This resets the ceph cluster health. [ QSTOR-7192 ]
Fixed an issue where the Ceph Monitor state was not getting updated when the manager node was shutdown. [ QSTOR-7156 ]
Fixed some inaccuracies with the Ceph PG Health status bar in the Ceph dashboard. [ QSTOR-7119 ]
Add the ability to replace/migrate a Ceph Journal. [ QSTOR-6782 ]
Dashboards and Analytics
Fixed and issue where the qsrestd service was opening too many sockets for requests to influxdb. [ QSTOR-7201 ]
Hardware Enclosures and Controllers
Updated Dell BOSS Card Management raid utility. [ QSTOR-7314 ]
Added support for additional Intel Server System server models. [ QSTOR-7268 ]
Added support for grouping hardware enclosure layouts by manufacturer/vendor [ QSTOR-7256 ]
Fixed an issue where some SSD devices were not correlating properly to slot numbers [ QSTOR-7255 ]
Adds support for AIC 60 bay servers and JBODs [ QSTOR-7250 ]
Adds support for the AIC 60 by servers and JBODs [ QSTOR-7196 ]
Fixed an issue where attempting to create an HA group on a degraded pool would report the missing disk as SATA. Creating HA groups on degraded pools is not supported, but the messaging is much clearer now. [ QSTOR-6997 ]
Added better enclosure discovery and mapping support for LSI/Avago 9400 Series Cards, [ QSTOR-6464 ]
High Availability Failover
Fixed an issue where failover group can be in deactivated state if both nodes are rebooted. [ QSTOR-6620 ]
NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers
Fixed a few text fields and items for the S3 Proxy Dialog. [ QSTOR-7271 ]
Network Shares
Fixed an issue with the description not being set for custom named snapshots [ QSTOR-7316 ]
Added logic to Error out Network Share modify when quota value is lower than the current used or reserved by the Network Share. [ QSTOR-7264 ]
Disabled 'Create File Stubs/ Links' checkbox in Create Backup Policy dialog when it is not applicable. [ QSTOR-7257 ]
Fixed an issue where the back up policy create and modify dialog was not updating the description field. [ QSTOR-7244 ]
Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies
Fix minor issue with Backup Policy Modify not retaining the remote export path. [ QSTOR-7259 ]
Fixed a minor truncation issue with backup policy dialog. [ QSTOR-7248 ]
Fixed an issue with backup policy move files where the source files do not get deleted. [ QSTOR-7243 ]
SNMP
Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-7324 ]
Security
Fixed an issue where empty username and password hangs the dialog. [ QSTOR-7284 ]
Add the ability to block WEB UI HTTP/HTTPS on specified systems and network ports. [ QSTOR-7272 ]
Adds support for customizing the default user which shows in the WUI login from "admin" to something else or "" [ QSTOR-7251 ]
Service Core
Fixed an issue where the CPU info on the Storage System object would not update if the CPU was changed. [ QSTOR-7254 ]
Storage Pool Management
Auto select RAID1 if there are only two disks for pool create. [ QSTOR-7318 ]
Moved the "Hardware" column before the "Is SSD" column in the Physical Disk view for the Storage Pool Create column. [ QSTOR-7293 ]
Fixed: Minor UI change to show Storage Pool state [ QSTOR-7280 ]
Added trim support For ZFS storage pool devices which are SSD. This requires the ZFS 0.8.4 or newer driver available on Bionic and RedHat based platforms. [ QSTOR-6699 ]
- The create and modify storage pool dialogs include an "enable auto-trim" option. - This allows storage pool devices which support trim to be trimmed automatically as needed. - The qs cli also includes a new "pool-trim" command, which starts a trim operation manually.
Storage Volumes
Fixed: Minor UI change to block storage volume create on Ceph Object Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-7275 ]
Fixed: Updated the UI for volume group clone to show appropriate errors when destination pool is not compatible with the storage volumes in the volume group. [ QSTOR-7274 ]
Added logic to ensure the block size in the volume create dialog is initialized correctly and in accordance with the volume type (Ceph RBD or ZFS). Fix utilization truncation and alignment issues in the storage volume create dialog. [ QSTOR-7222 ]
Added logic to Filter incompatible pools from the storage volume clone dialog. [ QSTOR-7221 ]
Upgrade Manager and Installer
Fixed an issue with the Platform column in the Upgrade Manager returning incorrect data. [ QSTOR-7329 ]
Temporarily Disabled support for the upgrade manager from the web ui on RedHat / rpm based distributions. Upgrades are supported via the CLI for now. [ QSTOR-7286 ]
Removed legacy postfix and bsd-mail dependencies for new installs on the Bionic Platform. [ QSTOR-6944 ]
Web Manager
Enhanced the Web UI to support contextual highlighting of ZFS or Ceph Storage Pool Device Groups and their Storage Pool Device members in the Pool Enclosure View. [ QSTOR-7261 ]
Update host group selection dialog with help text and confirmation for removal of hosts from host group. [ QSTOR-7258 ]