v6.1.8.006 (August 25th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.8.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Added logic to automatically cleanup orphaned QuantaStor Network share objects that had no name and no path. [ QSTOR-9810 ]

Service Core

  • Added a check to the quantastor prestart script to always clean up poolmeta temp files inside /run/quantastor/ [ QSTOR-9814 ]

  • Increased QuantaStor service memory limits to 8GB for single nodes and 32GB for grid nodes. [ QSTOR-9813 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Set default trim rate for ZFS Storage Pool trim to 100MB/s. [ QSTOR-9784 ]

v6.1.7.010 (August 14th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with Cephfs pools remounting after reboot. This fixes an issue introduced in 6.1.2 [ QSTOR-9728 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Implemented the ability to failover HA storage pools without a site cluster. This allows for easier platform or other upgrades where a site cluster had to be temporarily removed and recreated due to api or platform compatibility changes. [ QSTOR-9745 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with local VIF delete introduced in 6.1.6 [ QSTOR-9776 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Replication reports to include skipped replication triggers. [ QSTOR-9731 ]

  • Added details to the replication schedule and replication report for when a scheduled replication trigger is skipped due to an ongoing replication or other item that would cause replication to not trigger. [ QSTOR-9694 ]

  • Fixed a corner case where replication could fail if the snapshot being replicated to the target checkpoint was not discovered properly. [ QSTOR-9691 ]

  • Fix an issue with replication is falsely reported as failed. Can sometimes happens on slow disks on replication destination. [ QSTOR-9685 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a legacy corner case file conflict with the multipath.conf in platform upgrades for systems originally deployed with early xenial based QuantaStor install media or older platforms than xenial. [ QSTOR-9748 ]

v6.1.6.024 (July 7th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.6.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Filtered out non client keyrings from the Ceph Client keyrings. [ QSTOR-9718 ]

  • Updated ceph pacific version for upgrades to 16.2.13 [ QSTOR-9715 ]

  • Mask legacy radosgw.service start up script for Focal. [ QSTOR-9700 ]

  • Fixed an issue with CephFS client export keyring. [ QSTOR-9684 ]

  • No longer tracking rgw Ceph auth client keys. [ QSTOR-9657 ]

  • Cache policy settings will now be grayed out in Network Share Create dialog -> Advanced Settings for Ceph FS shares. [ QSTOR-9022 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added further logic to hardware controller and enclosure discovery to protect against Broadcom storcli failures to return full hardware controller details. [ QSTOR-9697 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with disabling dhcp interfaces with no network connection on Focal. [ QSTOR-9666 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue where double quotes were being removed from the samba configuration file. [ QSTOR-9696 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed the Storage System Shutdown Task to correctly complete with 100% progress when the system is shutdown. [ QSTOR-9565 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a misleading alert for encrypted Storage Pool with a missing disk. [ QSTOR-9676 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added support for upgrading Bionic Platforms from Ceph Nautilus to Pacific.

Fixed various issues with coordinated Ceph upgrades. [ QSTOR-9638 ]

Web Manager

  • Add a View Replication Schedule Report menu item that launches the replication report chooser dialog (same dialog the button on the replication dashboard launches). [ QSTOR-9713 ]

v6.1.5.014 (Jun 19th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.5.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added CheetahRAID SAS+NVMe enclosure support. [ QSTOR-9660 ]

  • Added support for the Dell Xe7100 enclosure. [ QSTOR-9660 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed some issues with creating and deleting site cluster heartbeat rings. [ QSTOR-9672 ]

  • Fixed: added logic to ensure the nodeid for site cluster configurations is always unique. [ QSTOR-9665 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added new qs-util npblink command that can be used to blink network port identify LED's. [ QSTOR-7589 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with enabling an \_chkpnt replica target for NFS access. [ QSTOR-9679 ]

  • Added support for DNS Realms to the DNS verification checks in the AD join. [ QSTOR-9644 ]

  • Revise the error message to be more descriptive for when the snapshots of a Cloud Container are attempted. [ QSTOR-3165 ]

  • Ensure the mount path property of the share gets updated during a rename of the share. [ QSTOR-9681 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with snapshot cleanup being queued when an active replication was running. [ QSTOR-9673 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed issue with pool grow if special VDEVS are on a pool. [ QSTOR-9677 ]

v6.1.4.016 (May 25th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.4.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for ASUS RS500A-E12-RS12U NVMe enclosure mapping and system health sensors. [ QSTOR-9627 ]

  • Added initial support for Supermicro AMD based server NVMe disk identification. [ QSTOR-9609 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Add nguid support to I/O fencing tools. [ QSTOR-9654 ]

Licensing

  • Fixes bug where trial key with delayed activated license would cause simple operations to fail due to invalid licensing error. [ QSTOR-9388 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added support for DHCP on Focal platforms. [ QSTOR-9656 ]

  • Added support for DHCP interfaces when converting from cloud-init initial netplan style networking. [ QSTOR-9656 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixes bug where network share would go into a "MISSING" state when disabled. [ QSTOR-9643 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Move the Replication Schedule checkboxes from the "General" tab to an "Advanced" tab. [ QSTOR-9405 ]

SNMP

  • Fixed: the alert for legacy SNMP upgrade and recommended reconfiguration will now only be raised once on the first upgrade. [ QSTOR-9588 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue where dataset lookups would fail for snapshots of cephFS shares. [ QSTOR-9650 ]

  • Fixed the Storage Pool health check on non-HA nodes to only raise an alert when triggered on pool I/O error/timeout instead of marking the node as needing to be rebooted. [ QSTOR-9646 ]

Web Manager

  • Fixed an issue with the Web UI Dashboards when static routes are configured. [ QSTOR-9653 ]

  • Show the Ceph Version column in the System Info Tab by default. [ QSTOR-9641 ]

  • Change the modify maintenance schedule 'Maintenance Type' radio buttons to a Read-Only HTML field. [ QSTOR-8020 ]

  • Improve the Config Analyzer Minor and Warning color contrast. [ QSTOR-5500 ]

v6.1.2.050 (May 18th 2023)

Release 6.1.2 was superseded by 6.1.3

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Updated Ceph for new installs to Pacific 6.2.13 [ QSTOR-9617 ]

  • Allow s3 buckets with the same name if under different tenants. [ QSTOR-9605 ]

  • Fixed an issue with CephFS teardown. [ QSTOR-9594 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed NVMe Device enclosure slot blink when issued against a physical disk object. [ QSTOR-9591 ]

  • Change the Physical Disk sort in central region to sort by name and match the tree view sort. [ QSTOR-5505 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue where the disk temperature alert threshold set in the qs_ipmi.conf file was not being honored. [ QSTOR-9599 ]

  • Added a blink indicator icon in the Tree view for Hardware Disk Objects that are blinking. [ QSTOR-5506 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fix issue with HA VIF not staying on active node on Focal and RHEL deployments. [ QSTOR-9621 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with configuring bonded networking during the Focal platform installer. [ QSTOR-9620 ]

  • Added network interface clean up logic when splitting a grid or removing an node from the grid. [ QSTOR-9010 ]

  • Show Domain Suffix, DNS Servers, and Search Suffix columns in the Storage System grid of the Modify Grid Network Settings dialog. Change default from all systems checked to unchecked at launch. [ QSTOR-5708 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fix to share state when disable share fails when share is in use. [ QSTOR-2508 ]

  • Added multiple AD related health checks to AD Join. these include verifying ntp servers, DNS lookup, reverse DNS lookup and other common network configuration issues that can cause AD joins to fail. [ QSTOR-1487 ]

  • Cleanup the lazy deleted ZFS shares after a reboot. Remove directory if it is a mount point and the directory is empty. Also destroy the ZFS dataset. [ QSTOR-1426 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed the disk-list filters for QS CLI commands to allo for better fuzzy matching on greater than and less than capacity matches for GB/GiB [ QSTOR-9243 ]

  • Fixed an issue with xml validation for the qs cli --xml output. [ QSTOR-1974 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed various remote replication task related items to provide clearer state when triggering, canceling or having a replication trigger while one is already running for a schedule. [ QSTOR-7972 ]

  • Fixed the remote replication reporting for HA storage configurations where a schedule can includes shares and volumes from multiple HA pools that may sometimes be on the HA partner node. [ QSTOR-4759 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed NVMe target storage volume devices to correctly report OSNEXUS QuantaStor for the vendor/model id of the disk devices on client NVMe initiators. [ QSTOR-8580 ]

Security

  • Allow multiple spaces in user passwords. [ QSTOR-9606 ]

  • Improve the Duo Multifactor Authentication login process. [ QSTOR-9593 ]

  • Simplified MFA Config Maintenance and fixed a bug with the Push authentication mode. [ QSTOR-5217 ]

  • Allow users to retry DUO MFA passcodes when selecting the SMS or passcode authentication options. [ QSTOR-5184 ]

Service Core

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-9636 ]

  • Added logic to ensure proper stopping of the encrypted swap space during storage system shutdown. [ QSTOR-9413 ]

  • Fixed the checks for the QuantaStor sendlogs feature in the event that there was a network failure preventing access to the log collection servers. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

  • Added advanced options to the Send Support Log dialog to optionally disable log uploading and/or scrubbing. [ QSTOR-3580 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • For user passphrase encrypted storage pools, Import and Export encryption key API will not automatically place the DEK into memory. User must start the pool using the user defined passphrase to get the decrypted DEK. [ QSTOR-9304 ]

  • Config analyzer will now flag encrypted storage pools that have non-encrypted disks. An Alert is also raised and a warning status and state detail is put on the specific pool. [ QSTOR-7768 ]

  • Minor fix for SSD disks in a pool to check if trim is supported. [ QSTOR-6128 ]

  • Added disk Hardware enclosure and slot information if available to the alert raised for a storage pool disk that failed completely or was removed and is in missing status. [ QSTOR-2418 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated Focal platform install media to be based on 20.04.6 [ QSTOR-9626 ]

  • Added support for Offline Bionic -> Focal platform dist-upgrades using ISO media as the install repo. qs-util aptoffline ISO_FILE is the utility command to enable this. [ QSTOR-9625 ]

  • Added numerous improvements for Bionic->Focal platform distupgrades. [ QSTOR-9548 ]

Web Manager

  • Widen the task detail grid column to view more text by default. [ QSTOR-9632 ]

  • Add a 'S3 Bucket Create...' menu item to S3 Tenant tree nodes. [ QSTOR-9623 ]

  • Improve the readability of chart data labels in the config analyzer and replication dashboards when in dark mode. [ QSTOR-9536 ]

  • Fix popup confirmation message for the deletion of Object based and File Scale-out storage pools. [ QSTOR-9376 ]

  • Add a force flag to the network share restore dialog for when a share has active sessions. [ QSTOR-6611 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with share rename to same name as a recently lazy deleted share. [ QSTOR-1425 ]

v6.1.1.029 (April 27th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.1.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added a check to prevent multiple storcli commands from running at the same time. [ QSTOR-9307 ]

  • Fixed an issue where Hardware controller RAID Units and Physical disks would not correlate. [ QSTOR-9557 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Block site cluster add and remove operations if any of the nodes in the site cluster are offline. [ QSTOR-9582 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fixed a bug where local Cloud Containers were not properly configured with NFS and SMB. [ QSTOR-9579 ]

Network Shares

  • Added pool and parent share context to various network share dialogs for nested shares. [ QSTOR-9550 ]

  • Removed a disabled field in the Network Share Modify dialog that only applies to network share create. [ QSTOR-8777 ]

  • Fix an issue with grouped Network share Namespace. [ QSTOR-6180 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Minor fix for cli argument validation. [ QSTOR-988 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue with showing nested shares in replication and snapshot schedules. [ QSTOR-9542 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixed a regression in the iSCSI Target driver to ensure ALUA is disable in mixed iSCSI+FC deployments. [ QSTOR-9571 ]

Security

  • Implemented Multifactor Authentication for AD Users. [ QSTOR-9560 ]

Service Core

  • Added block for removing a User via the UI if the User being deleted is the current User. [ QSTOR-7556 ]

  • Blocked ability to configure Virtual Interfaces with DHCP. [ QSTOR-6740 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added checks to ensure the correct zpool allocation_classes feature is enabled for log and other cache devices when importing OpenZFS pools from older QuantaStor releases or legacy SAN/NAS solutions. [ QSTOR-9573 ]

  • Fixed an issue with Storage Pool capacity updates on HA pools. [ QSTOR-9554 ]

  • Fixed an issue with the iofencing indicators refreshing properly on storage pool device objects when growing a storage pool or adding single cache devices. [ QSTOR-5476 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix a button truncation issue in the 'Assign/Unassign Multi-Factor Authentication Configuration to Users' dialog. [ QSTOR-9583 ]

  • Implemented a new Web Customization option to block a User from accessing the S3 Users & Tenants tab in the UI. [ QSTOR-9541 ]

  • Fix an issue where the maintenance schedule 'Update Maintenance List' dialog was not showing selected S3 pools. Improve the Report and Maintenance Schedule Pool Section feature to span across Storage Systems using a Dual List chooser. [ QSTOR-9540 ]

v6.1.0.186 (April 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.1.0.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with deleting mapped Ceph RBD's. [ QSTOR-9521 ]

  • Fix an issue in the S3 Zone Create dialog where the Zone Group was not properly set on custom names. Enhance the dialog to support common Amazon S3 Zones. [ QSTOR-9510 ]

  • Fixed an issue with adding a monitor back after a previous deletion. [ QSTOR-9488 ]

  • Fixed an issue with reporting inaccurate percent utilized values for Ceph Scale-out pools. [ QSTOR-9364 ]

  • Fixes bug where task for deleting Ceph FS pool would hang indefinitely. [ QSTOR-9319 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Client Keyring feature which allows users to create client keyrings associated with access to specified Ceph block pool and CephFS share resources. [ QSTOR-9197 ]

  • Added a check and protection to prevent changing the hostname of an active ceph cluster member. [ QSTOR-7417 ]

  • Updated descriptions for ceph CRUSH rule CLI commands. [ QSTOR-6767 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed an issue with telegraf service access to ceph sockets for Dashboards on new Focal platform deployments. [ QSTOR-9517 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for Pliops Device discovery and use for Scale-up and Scale-out Storage Pool Data Devices. [ QSTOR-9501 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli to version 007.2507 [ QSTOR-9511 ]

  • Filters out the OS RAID disks from being selected as hot spares. [ QSTOR-9452 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA failover if the storage pool disk devices were not discovered properly or not in the QuantaStor database. [ QSTOR-9553 ]

  • Add support for entering and leaving maintenance mode on a Site Cluster. [ QSTOR-9444 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Minor fix for create bucket errors [ QSTOR-9513 ]

  • Cloud Container Create and Add will now preselect default location. [ QSTOR-9509 ]

  • Block Cloud Containers with "_" in the name. [ QSTOR-9508 ]

  • Updated to rclone 1.61.1 [ QSTOR-9490 ]

  • Add the ability to mount cloud containers on multiple Storage Systems in the grid. [ QSTOR-9363 ]

  • Added the flag "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" to improve upload times for azure cloud container backups. [ QSTOR-9171 ]

  • Add "storage class" support for Cloud Containers. [ QSTOR-6317 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added the ability to do a custom script callout for interfaces for pre and post ifup calls. [ QSTOR-9482 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix a regression causing Network Share clone to break. [ QSTOR-9497 ]

  • Added auto resume for in progress Network Share Clone tasks after a service restart. [ QSTOR-9469 ]

  • Add write-once-read-many support for Network Shares [ QSTOR-9372 ]

  • Fixed an issue with deleting Network Share custom cifs options. [ QSTOR-6426 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Show nested shares in the 'Replication Schedules' grid view. [ QSTOR-9502 ]

  • Improved task naming and logging when deleting expired Network Share snapshots from a Snapshot Schedule. [ QSTOR-9479 ]

  • Added ability to add nested Network Shares to Snapshot Schedules. [ QSTOR-8492 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB for 6.1 [ QSTOR-9500 ]

  • Add support to enable/disable Quantastor SNMP agent via the alert manager. [ QSTOR-9392 ]

Security

  • Fixes bug in FIPS mode configuration. [ QSTOR-9534 ]

Service Core

  • Add nested share support to replication schedules. [ QSTOR-9345 ]

  • Implemented minor version ceph upgrades in the Upgrade Manager. [ QSTOR-9244 ]

  • Updated QuantaStor toolchain. QuantaStor now requires Bionic or newer Ubuntu, and RedHat 8.6 or newer platforms. [ QSTOR-8830 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a race condition when starting an Upgrade via the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-9436 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix issue where the Resource Group Add/Remove Shares/Volumes dialogs were not properly initialized with previously selected Shares/Volumes. [ QSTOR-9547 ]

  • Updated SIte Cluster VIF Icons for better contrast in both light and dark modes. [ QSTOR-9546 ]

  • Change Delete Cloud Container terminology to Detach Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-9493 ]

  • Minor improvements to show the schedule trigger times in the WEB UI [ QSTOR-9487 ]

  • Added a Dark mode theme for QuantaStor. The default behavior is to follow the OS's current light/dark mode preference. This can be overridden with the light/dark mode toggle in the upper right of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-9474 ]

  • Add a Snapshot Count column for Shares and Volumes. [ QSTOR-9445 ]

  • Move the NFS Settings fieldset in the Ceph dialogs (Create CephFs and Zone) to the Advanced tab. [ QSTOR-9438 ]

  • Show a popup error message when creating Cloud Provider Credentials and the Username and/or Secret Access fields are empty. [ QSTOR-9315 ]

  • Added support for Ceph Prometheus integration with Graphana. Guide can be found at this URL Grafana Ceph Dashboard & Prometheus Integration [ QSTOR-9007 ]

v6.0.11.001 (April 7th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.11.

Release Notes

Security

  • Fixed an issue with FIPS mode support still showing reboot required after a reboot was already performed. [ QSTOR-9528 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Increased the timeout for the iSCSI/FC Target service and driver stack checks in the QuantaSTor Management service. This fixes an issue that can occur if backend disks are provided to QuantaStor via FIber Channel. [ QSTOR-9528 ]

v6.0.9.004 (March 15th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.9.

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with Active Directory Joining with latest Focal and Redhat platform samba updates. [ QSTOR-9466 ]

Service Core

  • Added logic to always insert Server Hostname + Domain Search suffix into /etc/hosts file for local FQDN lookup of servers hostname. [ QSTOR-6971 ]

v6.0.8.005 (March 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.8.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Improve Corosync VIF resource management. [ QSTOR-9116 ]

  • Switched to preferring pcs when available for HA resource management. [ QSTOR-8246 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with zvol device path creation introduced in 6.0.7 [ QSTOR-9464 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with qstormanager permissions when installed on redhat based platforms. [ QSTOR-9460 ]

v6.0.7.013 (March 6th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.7.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Adds enclosure support for Supermicro SSG-121E-NES24R systems. [ QSTOR-9423 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue on some hardware with slow pool startup for HA pools with Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-9439 ]

  • Fixed an issue with SCSI Target with mixed iSCSI and FC storage volume clients. [ QSTOR-9439 ]

  • Adds clarity to alert when system requires a reboot for HA configurations. [ QSTOR-9429 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Add support for various storage classes for cloud providers. [ QSTOR-9414 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an Issue with Storage Volume GMT snapshots being misslabeled with parent \_chkpnt name. [ QSTOR-9446 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes bug with recursive volume multi delete API. [ QSTOR-3621 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixes bug where adding 3 metadata offload devices was being blocked by the server. [ QSTOR-9431 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixes bug where users are unable to delete volumes from the UI [ QSTOR-9442 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with the multipath.conf file when upgrading the platform from Bionic to Focal. [ QSTOR-9425 ]

v6.0.6.005 (February 17th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.6.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for Supermicro SYS-120H-TNR chassis. [ QSTOR-9384 ]

  • Fixed the Supermicro SYS-620C-TN12R chassis to be LFF drive enclosure. [ QSTOR-9383 ]

  • Added Supermicro SSG-620P-E1CR24L chassis support. [ QSTOR-9382 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with creating Site/HA VIFs in grids with multiple site clusters. This corrects a regression introduced in 6.0.4 [ QSTOR-9422 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Allow addition of privated network endpoints for Cloud integration. [ QSTOR-9417 ]

Network Shares

  • Added support for nested shares to have the same name when nested under different parent shares. [ QSTOR-9419 ]

Server Integration

  • Replaced ipmiutil with ipmitool for server led identification beacon support. [ QSTOR-9421 ]

v6.0.4.029 (February 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.0.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Adds feature to configure lifecycle policy for s3 buckets. [ QSTOR-9339 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a feature to persist encryption pool authentication through service restart. [ QSTOR-9381 ]

  • Prevent passphrase protected pools from failing over to another system which does not have the proper keys to unlock the pool. [ QSTOR-9359 ]

  • Fixed UI bug where the Site Vif Move dialog showed incorrect Current System. [ QSTOR-9270 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Block deleting cloud containers using the 'qs share-delete'. Adds a filter to hide cloud containers in network share delete dialog. [ QSTOR-6543 ]

REST API

  • Fixed an issue with manually executing failover for High Availability Pools when logged in as an LDAP user. [ QSTOR-9371 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix an issue with snapshots in the WEB UI after recursive replication. [ QSTOR-9409 ]

  • Fixed an issue with mounting replicated nested shares [ QSTOR-9366 ]

Security

  • Fixes bug with LDAP user login. [ QSTOR-9412 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Adds ubuntu 18.04(bionic) to 20.04(focal) platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-9370 ]

  • Added new 'quantastor' meta package to ensure required and recommended dependencies are always brought in on new focal installs and upgrades to the focal platform. [ QSTOR-9302 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix a Ribbon Bar initialization issue where the Active Directory Ribbon Bar Group was not appearing at startup under in the Storage Systems menu area. [ QSTOR-9386 ]

v6.2.5.032 (January 18th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.5.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added ssh port 22 to network connectivity checker tests. [ QSTOR-10092 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fix bug where ceph monitor daemon is disabled. [ QSTOR-10095 ]

  • Added script to setup Ceph multi-site replication. [ QSTOR-10075 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated storcli version to 007.2705.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-10072 ]

  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-10036 ]

  • Added feature for turning off hwDisk identification for all disks, including all empty slots. [ QSTOR-9825 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated Linux Kernel to 5.15.0-91-generic for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]

  • Linux Kernel 5.15.0-91-generic includes fixes for NFS v3 lockd that would cause file handles to be left open for NFSv3 clients when attempting to stop the nfs server before ZFS pool export during HA failover. [ QSTOR-10025 ]

  • Updated ZFS to 2.1.14.qs25 for Focal platforms [ QSTOR-10025 ]

Multitenancy

  • Fix an issue with missing Service Configs. [ QSTOR-10079 ]

  • Add the ability to sync nested shares when parent share is selected in Resilio. Optionally skip changing the share permissions when user is specified in the config file. [ QSTOR-10070 ]

Network Shares

  • Block rename of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10091 ]

  • Add the ability to enable and clone a GMT snapshot [ QSTOR-4145 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue where Remote Replication Schedules can fail if 2 source snapshots have the same created timestamp. [ QSTOR-10059 ]

  • Fix a minor issue with File Age settings in the Backup Schedule Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10056 ]

  • Properly transition a Replication task and Replication Report to the 'failed' status if the source system loses power during the Replication. [ QSTOR-10041 ]

  • Add a warning if checkpoint is selected in create snapshot schedule. [ QSTOR-10038 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with zfs storage volumes being correctly marked as missing if the underlying zfs zvol or snapshot is removed or unavailable. [ QSTOR-10086 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added a --password option to the qs\_install.sh script to allow users to provide the QuantaStor admin user password as well as the same password for the default qadmin shell account. [ QSTOR-10085 ]

Web Manager

  • Clear the replica summary graph when there are no report entries. [ QSTOR-10057 ]

  • Fix enclosure graph rendering issue where a selected system with multiple valid controllers was not being render because of one underlying MD BOOT Controller. [ QSTOR-10055 ]