v6.4.5.001 (November 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Fixed an error with Ceph Bucket Discovery tasks. [ QSTOR-10707 ]

v6.4.4.013 (October 25th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Added a fix for Seagate Corvault based Ceph deployments to ensure ceph LVM layer is started on system boot. [ QSTOR-10686 ]

• Added qs-osd-compact script to assist with OSD compaction on a per system basis. [ QSTOR-10668 ]

• Fixed an issue with Ceph OSD Journal device discovery for encrypted Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10666 ]

• Extend timeouts for OSD restart stage of the Ceph upgrade task. [ QSTOR-10665 ]

• Fixes bug were OSDs lose journal device correlation after OSD reweight operation. [ QSTOR-10657 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed an issue with enclosure and disk slot identity correlation information. [ QSTOR-10681 ]

High Availability Failover

• Disables the PCS daemon WebUI by default. [ QSTOR-10692 ]

• Adds a check for versions older than 6.4.3 to auto-disable the new health checks logic that is not compatible with older versions. [ QSTOR-10692 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Fixed: the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh script now automatically removes legacy centos repos that are no longer needed for Redhat platform deployments. [ QSTOR-10676 ]

v6.4.3.021 (October 10th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.3.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Fixed a incorrect encrypted ZFS pool check check in the Config Analyzer for encrypted Ceph clusters with encrypted OSDs. [ QSTOR-10643 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Optimized scale-out ceph bucket discovery for very large number of S3 buckets. [ QSTOR-10621 ]

• Ceph OSD create and delete operations will no longer fail due to services being masked. [ QSTOR-10617 ]

• Made some improvements to the Veeam SOSAPI update cycle. [ QSTOR-10616 ]

• Fixed an issue with creating Ceph Storage Classes of the same name on different Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-10592 ]

• Default to http based checks from the haproxy load balancer to backend http radosgw instances. [ QSTOR-10559 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

• Add a rescan for cloud containers so that data is refreshed if uploaded from another S3 gateway. [ QSTOR-10627 ]

Network Shares

• Fix an issue with trusted domain users not found in the Active Directory User search dialog. [ QSTOR-7353 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Enabled Continuous Data Protection and Auto-tiering on Backup Policies using the SMB protocol. [ QSTOR-10601 ]

Security

• Added http proxy support for Upgrades, Support Log submission and License Key Activation. [ QSTOR-10432 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Fix triggering Ceph cluster upgrades when there are multiple scale-out storage Ceph clusters in the same QuantaStor Storage Grid. [ QSTOR-10612 ]

• Fixed an issue with the Ganesha 5.9 libntirpc dependency. This change was shipped earlier with a respin of QuantaStor 6.4.3 to include the missing updated library in the update repo and in the ISO and OVA image. [ QSTOR-10576 ]

v6.4.2.053 (September 19th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Fixed tolerances for alerting on changes in PSU status and other IPMI sensors. [ QSTOR-10447 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Adds total Object count to S3 tenant and user objects [ QSTOR-10606 ]

• Improved logic to ensure Scale-out Object Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules were applied correctly on all nodes after an update. [ QSTOR-10599 ]

• Unblocked file quotas for CephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-10584 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Added Enclosure for Tyan Transport SX TS70-B8056. [ QSTOR-10597 ]

• Fixed an issue with enclosure support for Supermicro SSG-621E-ACR16L [ QSTOR-10563 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

• Fix a regression with NFS and SMB access for cloud container shares. [ QSTOR-10588 ]

Network Shares

• Fixed an issue where the quota field was incorrectly disabled in the network share modify and create dialogs for nested shares on zfs storage pools. [ QSTOR-10602 ]

• Implemented ability to adjust Network Shares permission settings via a specified permissions mask. [ QSTOR-10147 ]

Quantastor CLI

• Fix a minor regression with share name now showing in the output of "qs share-list" [ QSTOR-10587 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Show more informative errors when a Backup Job fails. [ QSTOR-10575 ]

• Fixed an issue where multiple snapshots were wrongfully created. [ QSTOR-10564 ]

• Fix an issue with removing excess snapshots for a backup policy with cephFS shares. [ QSTOR-10560 ]

• Add maximum total snapshots for replication, snapshot and backup schedules. [ QSTOR-10539 ]

• Fixed an issue where GMT Snapshots were disappearing. [ QSTOR-10538 ]

• Fix an issue with resume replication not updating the replication reports. [ QSTOR-10536 ]

• Added auto-tier stubbing minimum file size threshold. [ QSTOR-10505 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

• Added support for setting specific LUN numbers on Storage volumes for Fibre Channel access. This is available in the Advanced tab of the Storage Volume Create and Modify dialogs. [ QSTOR-10544 ]

Service Core

• Improved efficiency for Ceph Bucket discovery. New Default behavior is to skip collecting life cycle policy and object locking data on the bucket. Contact support to enable object locking discovery on buckets. [ QSTOR-10600 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Added script to fix RGW configurations on clusters created on older versions of QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-10569 ]

• Added support for Ceph Reef 18.x upgrades. [ QSTOR-10493 ]

Web Manager

• Make the info fields, in the Snapshot Rollback Point fieldset of the Rollback Storage Volume dialog, read-only. [ QSTOR-10596 ]

• Hide the timezone column in the Upgrade Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-10540 ]

• Change S3 Bucket Search panel location from North to West of screen. [ QSTOR-10405 ]

v6.4.1.011 (August 6th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.1.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed an issue with the Supermicro NVMe Enclosure mappings for the SBB-SSG-221E and SSG-641E [ QSTOR-10506 ]

Network Interfaces

• Fixed: Infiniband Devices should now have the correct Make and Model displayed in the Network interface section. [ QSTOR-10448 ]

Network Shares

• Fixed an issue with updating the status of Backup Policy Jobs. [ QSTOR-10517 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Fixed: Shows the last 14 days in the replication schedule dashboard regardless of the replication schedule configuration. Fix an issue where not all series data was appearing despite being in a completed state. [ QSTOR-10528 ]

• Fixed an issue with duplicate Replication tasks. [ QSTOR-10526 ]

• Correct the max temporary snapshots retained for volumes in a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-10525 ]

• Add the ability to discover partially transferred chkpnts if replication is interrupted on the first transfer. [ QSTOR-10500 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Fixed: optimized dependency checker for qs-upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10531 ]

v6.4.0.174 (July 18th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.4.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Fixed an issue with adding new ITSM webhook integrations. [ QSTOR-10480 ]

• Added support for Microsoft Teams to ITSM integrations. [ QSTOR-10458 ]

• Added the ability to easily extend ITSM integrations with new integration modules with qs_alerthandlers.conf file. [ QSTOR-10458 ]

• Include storage volumes in pool reports. [ QSTOR-10083 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Fixed an issue where the wrong libntirpc library was installed for nfs-ganesha. [ QSTOR-10463 ]

• Added a Copy to Clipboard Button for a selected access key and changed the double click on access/secret key behavior to copy to clipboard for the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]

• Added a check to the S3 User Access Key Manager Dialog to ensure only the selected key text is shown when the user clicks the 'Show Key Text' button on the dialog. [ QSTOR-10428 ]

• Added block for more than 2 S3 Gateway loadbalancer modes configured at the same time. [ QSTOR-10407 ]

• Added a new feature for data pool capacity based, overflow rules for ceph object storage. Added support for a force flag for the auto tiering rules, that will overwrite any client side storage class specifications. [ QSTOR-10379 ]

• Add reporting for object storage usage. Periodic reports can be generated as part of "Report Schedules" by enabling "Object Zone Usage Report". [ QSTOR-10355 ]

• Added object count for Ceph Buckets. [ QSTOR-10348 ]

• Updated the default access permissions for Ceph keyring files. [ QSTOR-10325 ]

• Updated ceph cluster scale-out OSD osd_op_queue setting to wpq by default. The setting will take effect for any new OSDs on creation. Existing OSDs will use the new setting on OSD service restart (system reboot, encrypted OSD re-keying or manual OSD service restart) [ QSTOR-10123 ]

• Improved an error message when creating a Site Vif with Block Storage use case. [ QSTOR-9984 ]

• Added ability to enable a size quota and a file number quota on cephFS Shares. [ QSTOR-7344 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed an issue where a disconnected JBOD could leave the enclosure object around on LSI HBAs. [ QSTOR-10503 ]

• Fixed: a modify of enclosure or system layout to something other than default will also set the same layout on the corresponding system or enclosure(s) that are currently set to default. [ QSTOR-10496 ]

• Fixed an issue with using the wrong LED control Utility for disk identification on Supermicro NVMe storage systems. [ QSTOR-10469 ]

• Added support for Supermicro SBB-SSG-221E-DN2R24R to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10460 ]

• Added Support for Supermicro SSG-641E-E1CR36L/H to enclosure/server views. [ QSTOR-10429 ]

• Prevent a missing disk from being blinked. [ QSTOR-10179 ]

High Availability Failover

• Fixed an issue that could terminate the qs_pool_export script early on ha failover without final logging. [ QSTOR-10514 ]

• Fixed: added a check for HA VIFs to the network port offline dialog. This prevents a possible split cluster scenario. [ QSTOR-10414 ]

• Updated Task error messages to include the system where an error occurred for HA Storage pool failover tasks. [ QSTOR-10248 ]

• Added periodic HA failover group health checks for client and media connectivity. An alert will be raised If a health check fails that could indicate an issue with the future success of a High Availability failover from the primary to secondary node. [ QSTOR-9380 ]

Network Interfaces

• Prevent modifying parent port when static route is configured. [ QSTOR-10200 ]

• Fixed: removed iscsi and nvmeof portal configuration options on all grid vifs. client access should be configured through HA or Site cluster vifs only. [ QSTOR-9974 ]

Network Shares

• Fixed: NFS remove client access dialog and the qs share-client-remove CLI command now default to immediately terminate client connections for removed export rules, enhancing security. An option to retain client connections is available in the UI ("Retain Client Connections") and CLI (--retain-client-connection=true). [ QSTOR-10431 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Fixed an issue with Remote Replication reporting incorrect snapshot count. [ QSTOR-10476 ]

• Added a ZFS quantastor:scheduletype property to snapshots so that it is clearer what type of schedule created the snapshot. [ QSTOR-10421 ]

• Fix duplicate entries in replication dashboard. [ QSTOR-10385 ]

• Use raw mode for ZFS send and receive. Use on the wire compression if the source is not compressed. [ QSTOR-10153 ]

SNMP

• Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-10512 ]

Security

• Added feature to replace the OSD encryption keys for a given Ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-10283 ]

• Improved qs-util wrapper script so that user is prompted for secret passphrase. Passphrase will remain hidden. [ QSTOR-9982 ]

Service Core

• Fix minor trace message for Maintenance schedules. [ QSTOR-10416 ]

• Added a check to the QuantaStor system startup to ensure that LUKS encrypted Physical disks devices provided to QuantaStor via the iSCSI Software adapter are opened after system boot. [ QSTOR-10257 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Added support for customizing OVF templates with passwords and license keys. [ QSTOR-10451 ]

• Fixed an issue with the archived centos ganesha mirrors in the qs_upgrade_redhat8.sh install and upgrade script. [ QSTOR-10446 ]

Web Manager

• Fixed an issue where the User Web Customization rules were not being properly applied when the rules were defined in the Role create or modify dialog. [ QSTOR-10513 ]

• Fixed the text highlight and other colors used in the UI to be consistent across elements. [ QSTOR-10470 ]

• Update: Replaced all instances of 'double click to reveal plain text' on password fields with an explicit eyeball reveal button to allow users to show plain text. [ QSTOR-10410 ]

• Updated web manager tomcat and Java runtime dependencies. [ QSTOR-9492 ]

v6.3.7.011 (June 18th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Fixed an issue with creating Erasure Coded Ceph Object Storage Classes in the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10434 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

• Fixed the install-ceph-prometheus scripts to always have a default fallback install version if the latest version is not available. [ QSTOR-10441 ]

• Updated wiki documentation for the Prometheus and Grafana Integration guide to reflect changes from latest Grafana 11.0 release. [ QSTOR-10441 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed several items and updated logic for External System Corvault support. [ QSTOR-10235 ]

Kernel and Drivers

• * Fixed an issue with modern mellanox OFED installs using the mellanox-ofed-install.sh script and legacy ConnectX-3 Based Mellanox HBA's [ QSTOR-10295 ]

Network Shares

• Added logic to always bind mount the /export paths on Network Shares even if the share has no NFS access rules and is set to disabled and SMB/CIFS disabled. This includes Nested shares under Parent Network Shares. No noticeable increase in failover times was detected when testing on a Large HA config with many Network Shares including many Nested Shares and snapshots. [ QSTOR-10424 ]

• Fixed an issue with the Network Share snapshot count property. [ QSTOR-10329 ]

• Re-enabled the Network Share Snapshot count column by default in the Network Share Grid View. [ QSTOR-10329 ]

Storage Volumes

• Fixed an issue where FC ALUA standby LUN devices for Storage Volumes would not appear as non-rotational(SSD) to clients when on an SSD or NVMe based Storage Pool. Note: a reboot is required to reload the SCST kernel driver stack on the system for the fix to take effect. [ QSTOR-10417 ]

• Fixed an issue with presenting pass-through Storage Volumes as non-rotational(SSD) to clients. [ QSTOR-10417 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support latest Mellanox OFED 24.04-0.6.6.0 [ QSTOR-10438 ]

• Added a lts optional flag to the mellanox-ofed-install.sh for installing Mellanox OFED version 5.8-4.1.5.0. [ QSTOR-10438 ]

Web Manager

• Fix a minor ribbon bar alignment and spacing issue between elements by making a deferred force layout call during context switching. [ QSTOR-10413 ]

• Fixed an issue where some elements of the Ribbon Bar would not be visible or would somehow be under the visible section of the UI. [ QSTOR-10413 ]

• Removed the ZFS share encryption tab from the create and modify network share dialogs. The ZFS Share encryption feature is still available for share creation via the CLI but is not recommended for most users due to ZFS driver level issues. When the ZFS driver issues are resolved in a future ZFS release, the encryption tab will be re-enabled. [ QSTOR-10352 ]

v6.3.6.003 (June 4th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.6.

Release Notes

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Added a check to enforce 'Enable target checkpoint recovery (unchecking will perform full replication)' setting on Remote Replication Schedules. This helps ensure that no additional _chkpnt is created for a share or volume if one already exists for the source and target replication association. [ QSTOR-10419 ]

• Fixed an issue with replication report showing synchronizing state forever. [ QSTOR-10419 ]

Security

• Added qs-util wuicustomcerts command to allow creation of a /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/ssl/nginx_quantastor_ssl_custom.conf nginx override config so that users can customize certificate paths and ciphers from the QuantaStor defaults for the Web UI. [ QSTOR-9037 ]

v6.3.5.020 (May 23rd 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Fixed an issue where s3 gateway create was creating load balancers with https->https mode when https->http mode was passed in. [ QSTOR-10399 ]

• Fixed some issues with discovery of the http/https mode for the S3 load balancer. [ QSTOR-10399 ]

• Further optimizations and fixes related to Grid communication and Ceph Scale-out Object discovery on Object Storage Pools with a large number of buckets. [ QSTOR-10380 ]

• Fixed an issue with adding and removing RGW instances on the same node via different IP addresses. [ QSTOR-10370 ]

High Availability Failover

• Added logic to limit number of open threads and open file handles needed to unmount shares for the HA storage pool failover process. This fixes an issue with deployments that have a large amount of shares, including nested shares and share snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]

• Added more coverage for the auto close open file handles logic during HA storage pool failover to help unmount shares under the nfs /exports path as well as nested shares/snapshots. [ QSTOR-10373 ]

Multitenancy

• Fixed some issues with Multitenancy Container discovery and database table updates. [ QSTOR-10363 ]

Network Interfaces

• Added a exact match filter config file /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs_portFilter.conf for interface names that allows users to blacklist interfaces they do not want QuantaStor to see and/or manage. [ QSTOR-9664 ]

Network Shares

• Fixed an issue with the Network Share samba audit logging feature when upgrading from a legacy audit logging config. [ QSTOR-10390 ]

Quantastor CLI

• Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]

Security

• Adds support for controlling the sample period over which bad login attempts can trigger a short or permanent lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

• Adds support for controlling the duration of the short lock. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

• Fixes a security bug where good login attempts could mask bad login attempts by clearing the bad login attempt sample set for a given user. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

• Changes the special rules around bad login attempts for the 'admin' user, now allowing it to be locked. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

• Adds a touch file to unlock the 'admin' user account. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

• Adds a touch file to block the permanent locking of the 'admin' user account, which is similar to the current behavior. [ QSTOR-10374 ]

Storage Volumes

• Fixed an issue where iSCSI CHAP was not being correctly enabled in the iSCSI target on volumes when configured. [ QSTOR-10398 ]

• Fixed an issue with Fibre Channel Storage Volumes being presented after Storage System boot for Single QuantaStor node deployments (non-HA). [ QSTOR-10277 ]

v6.3.4.003 (May 14th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.4.

Release Notes

Web Manager

• Optimized WebUI login time for Large Scale-out Object deployments. [ QSTOR-10365 ]

• Fixed an issue where the WUI idle logout timer would be reached even when browsing inside of the WUI for various different sections. [ QSTOR-10361 ]

v6.3.3.033 (May 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Added qs_rgw_iam_policy.sh script for generating S3api IAM compatible bucket policies. [ QSTOR-10336 ]

• Added FQDN specific string validation to the Modify Realm/Zone Group dialog. [ QSTOR-10320 ]

• Fixed some items with the Modify Realm/Zone Group task. [ QSTOR-10320 ]

• Added a drop-down to the Create Storage Class Dialog with pre-defined S3 Storage Classes supported by most S3 CLI and S3 Library based clients. Users can still create a custom Storage class if they so choose and use their own custom S3 API implementation that supports Custom S3 Storage Classes. [ QSTOR-10232 ]

• Fixed some issues with adding/removing S3 Gateways with Load Balancers. [ QSTOR-9848 ]

High Availability Failover

• Added a force flag to the Remove Site Cluster Virtual Interface dialog. [ QSTOR-8276 ]

• Added logic to auto re-apply iofencing to devices that are re-added to the system due to prior physical removal or power loss of the device/device enclosure. [ QSTOR-5475 ]

• Fixed an issue with enabling client connectivity on HA Groups and implemented more safe guards. [ QSTOR-3432 ]

Network Shares

• Add touch file to limit discovery of snapshots of nested shares. [ QSTOR-10334 ]

• Fixed: Network Share rename will correctly remount the /export/ NFS mount location to the new name. [ QSTOR-10318 ]

• Fix minor message during share disable with active SMB clients. [ QSTOR-10292 ]

• Share disable will close open file handles to the share when accessed via SMB. [ QSTOR-10291 ]

• Fixed an issue where Network sub-share alias shares would not start properly after Storage Pool HA Failover. [ QSTOR-10278 ]

• Fixed an issue where share alias advanced settings allowed modification after an HA failover. [ QSTOR-10276 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Fix update selections for a replication schedule for cases where source is on a HA pool. [ QSTOR-10310 ]

• Fixed an issue with Windows Previous Versions on share-alias. [ QSTOR-10274 ]

• Added a check to ensure no duplicate share alias names are created on the same parent share. [ QSTOR-10274 ]

Security

• Fixed an issue where the Security Manager > Default Login Username field was not initializing to 'admin' for default installs and upgrades. [ QSTOR-10323 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Added logic to remove legacy google-compute-engine-oslogin and/or google-guest-agent on upgrade. These packages caused systems to not shutdown properly when installed. [ QSTOR-10340 ]

• Added a check to ensure the ledmon service is disabled by default. This is to ensure that there are no conflicts with the QuantaStor managed Disk Identify logic. [ QSTOR-10313 ]

Web Manager

• Added paging support to S3 Bucket search [ QSTOR-10324 ]

v6.3.2.025 (April 15th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.2.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Added search capability to the S3 Bucket section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-10288 ]

• Added Rule Sorting and an explicit rule remove button to the Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rules Dialog. [ QSTOR-10287 ]

• Added: You can now add the FQDN's for DNS names that you want the S3 Gateways to respond to via the Modify Realm/Zone Group Dialog. Note: you must add the FQDN's of the hosts or an FQDN alias e.g. s3.yourdomain.net (like used by DNS round robin) for the HAproxy load balancer to work properly. [ QSTOR-10285 ]

• Fixed issues with Ceph S3 Bucket discovery with a large amount of buckets. [ QSTOR-10261 ]

• Fixed some items related to Veeam SOSAPI integration based on testing in Veeam Certifcation scripts. [ QSTOR-10243 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed an issue where Dell RAID Controllers were being discovered twice in due to new support for the controllers discovery in Broadcom storcli utilities. [ QSTOR-10244 ]

High Availability Failover

• Fixed an issue where rebooting an active High Availability storage node would cause ZFS encrypted shares to go offline for any active pools on that node prior to automatic failover. [ QSTOR-10218 ]

Network Interfaces

• Fixed an issue where legacy VLAN interfaces that had the RX/TX optimizations flag set would not allow modification of the interface for any other setting. [ QSTOR-10272 ]

Not Set

• Added logic to prioritize high-speed data ports by default in the Ceph Cluster create and S3 gateway create dialogs. [ QSTOR-10266 ]

• Fixed usable space calculation on Object Pool Group when there are multiple Pools or Storage Classes using the same OSD's. [ QSTOR-10264 ]

• Fixed an issue with modifying a network share after after a custom veto files setting had been added to the samba cifs options. Now the veto files merge as a set with the default .qssnaps veto files used by the VSS GMT snapshots feature. [ QSTOR-10249 ]

Security

• Updated the OSNEXUS Security Notice service [1](https://services.osnexus.com/security/) for bionic and focal platform support. [ QSTOR-10269 ]

Service Core

• Added support for replacing ntpd with chronyd in Ubuntu Focal platform based deployments. [ QSTOR-10239 ]

v6.3.1.009 (April 1st 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.1.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Fixed an issue where a pool running a scrub would report as degraded in the Config Analyzer health report. [ QSTOR-10258 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Added qs-rgw-moveobjects script to allow easier s3api copy-object of a buckets contents to a different storage class. [ QSTOR-10268 ]

• Changed haproxy load-balancer to use balance source mode by default. [ QSTOR-10260 ]

• Fixed an issue with the Storage Class Auto-Tiering rules where multipart uploads with Capacity Operators of greater than or greater and equal to the Capacity Threshold would not be uploaded to the correct storage class. [ QSTOR-10254 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Changed qs-util seagate-ap-split mode command to use zone 5 [ QSTOR-10259 ]

Web Manager

• Increased default max bucket count for S3 user to 100K. [ QSTOR-10256 ]

• Added new Grid Preferred Port status column in the Network Port Grid. It's hidden by default. [ QSTOR-10256 ]

• Fixed s3 gateway dialog height so it can show more nodes in the grid. [ QSTOR-10256 ]

• Fixed s3 tenant create, if "Display Name" is not specified use the "Name" (display name is no longer mandatory in dialog). [ QSTOR-10256 ]

v6.3.0.268 (March 20th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.3.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Fixed an issue where md software raid os partitions where being reported in the config analyzer as offline storage pools. [ QSTOR-10168 ]

• Fixed an issue where non-management ports were being flagged in the config analyzer for iSCSI acess being enabled. [ QSTOR-9891 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Blocked creating new OSDs when the OSD service is masked. [ QSTOR-10212 ]

• Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the S3 User's and Tenant tree. [ QSTOR-10156 ]

• Show the S3 Object Storage Pool as the root node in the bucket tree. [ QSTOR-10150 ]

• Add support for multiple data pools for storage classes for Ceph Object Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-10137 ]

• Add auto tiering capability to ceph buckets. [ QSTOR-10125 ]

• Change the Ceph block storage pool to default to replica=3 for performance. [ QSTOR-10062 ]

• For CephFS, the min_size for the metadata pool should be 2. [ QSTOR-10015 ]

• Introduce safe disk replacement for Ceph OSDs. [ QSTOR-9937 ]

• Applied adjustments to Ceph Clusters for optimized scrubs on smaller and denser clusters. [ QSTOR-9900 ]

• Updated NFS Ganesha to 5.7 [ QSTOR-9821 ]

• Add support for Ceph Multi-site bucket replication. [ QSTOR-6570 ]

Disk Management

• Added support for ScaleFlux CSD 3000 SSDs that support builtin compression provisioning. [ QSTOR-10198 ]

• Fixed an issue with disk correlation by serial number on Broadcom/LSI 93XX series HBAs. [ QSTOR-10194 ]

• Show osd number in 'qs disk-list'. [ QSTOR-9717 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Add enclosure view for the ASUS 2u24 NVMe. [ QSTOR-10202 ]

• Fix controller selection issue in the 'Identify Hardware Controller Disk Device' dialog for when the selected object in the Physical Disk tree is a Physical Disk and not the Disk itself. [ QSTOR-10195 ]

• Updated wddcs tool to 3.2.8.0 [ QSTOR-10166 ]

• Added to feature to create or delete multiple External System Volume configurations. [ QSTOR-10061 ]

High Availability Failover

• Fixed an issue with the Create HA Failover Group Dialog when there are active FC sessions on volumes on the selected pool. [ QSTOR-10169 ]

• Changed NVMe reservations to use cptpl=2 when available so that iofencing is cleared on power on of a nvme drive. [ QSTOR-10124 ]

Licensing

• Added logic to auto-fetch new QuantaStor License Server ca certificates during online license activation. [ QSTOR-10174 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

• Update rclone version. [ QSTOR-9512 ]

Network Interfaces

• Show static route parent port in the respective grid and delete dialog. [ QSTOR-10199 ]

• Fixed an issue with onlining/restarting offline VLAN interfaces. [ QSTOR-10180 ]

• Fixed an issue with VLAN ontop of Bonded ports on VM deployed QuantaStor instances. [ QSTOR-10180 ]

• Improve the Network bond mode descriptions, in the 'Create Bonded Port' dialog, for those that require managed switches. [ QSTOR-9842 ]

• Added IP address place holder for DHCP interfaces that have no assigned IP address. [ QSTOR-9828 ]

• Fixed an issue with downing virtual interfaces when converting to HA virtual interface. [ QSTOR-9774 ]

Network Shares

• Minor Web UI fix to display share quota percent utilization. [ QSTOR-10121 ]

• Implemented a Real Time Auto Copy feature to enhance data protection for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-9929 ]

• Updated Focal platform Samba to 4.18.6 backported from ubuntu upstream release. [ QSTOR-9924 ]

• Show parent shares in the 'qs share-list' command results. [ QSTOR-9702 ]

Quantastor CLI

• Update qs-iostat utility to python3. [ QSTOR-10152 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Add the ability to force create symbolic links for backup policy outbound-move to cloud containers without a delay of 24 hours. [ QSTOR-10136 ]

• Update Replication Report Summary object as failed if source system reboots right after schedule is triggered. [ QSTOR-10097 ]

SNMP

• Regen SNMP MIB for 6.3 [ QSTOR-10228 ]

Security

• Updated JQuery version used in the QuantaStor WebUI to 3.7.1 [ QSTOR-10064 ]

• Add Audit Log Viewing to the Storage System menus. [ QSTOR-10031 ]

Storage Pool Management

• Improved logic for replacing zpool UNAVAIL disks that are identified by their id instead of a device path as the disk is no longer present or visible to the OS. [ QSTOR-10129 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Automatically disable and mask uefi fwupd service on platforms that include it to prevent unplanned firmware updates. [ QSTOR-10205 ]

• Fixed: the low boot space warning for kernel upgrades now correctly appears in the Upgrade Manager task failure message. [ QSTOR-10185 ]

• Fixed an issue where the scst/zfs userspace packages were not being pinned on security updates. [ QSTOR-10185 ]

• Fixed an issue where qstortarget was incorrectly selected during security updates but fails due to existing pinning rules. qstortarget now correctly only gets selected for install on kernel/driver upgrades. [ QSTOR-10185 ]

Web Manager

• Minor fix to show NA for share-alias space columns. [ QSTOR-10227 ]

• Login dialog shown after service restart is complete. [ QSTOR-10007 ]

v6.2.8.016 (March 5th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.8.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

• Fixed Hardware Disk to Physical disk slot correlation issues. [ QSTOR-10135 ]

• Improved Enclosure object guid uniqueness to better support more complex/multipath setups for hardware disk to physical disk mapping. [ QSTOR-10135 ]

• Added Hardware Enclosure Serial\# property and logic to discover serial\# when available. [ QSTOR-10102 ]

Multitenancy

• Updated Resilio container image to 3.8.1.2250 [ QSTOR-10162 ]

• Fix errors with Resilio container errors seen after upgrade. [ QSTOR-10099 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause duplicate snapshot objects to appear for snapshot schedules with nested shares and recursive snapshot enabled. [ QSTOR-10159 ]

• Added a check to temporarily prevent adding ZFS dataset encrypted Network Shares to remote replication schedules until the Open ZFS issue \#12014 is resolved in an upcoming ZFS release. [ QSTOR-10145 ]

• Fixed an issue with using Windows Restore Previous Versions on remote Replica \_chkpnt Network Shares. [ QSTOR-10065 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

• Updated SCST driver to 3.8.0.9038-f134517-qs01 to support latest available linux kernels for Focal platform and Focal cloud platform kernels. [ QSTOR-10151 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Added Kernel Driver Support for QuantaStor installation on Ubuntu 20.04 images on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. [ QSTOR-10138 ]

v6.2.7.002 (February 23rd 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.7.

Release Notes

Licensing

• Updated license manager certificates for online license activation. [ QSTOR-10154 ]

v6.2.6.024 (February 8th 2024)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.6.

Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

• Added support for iofencing NVMe disks that do not support cdw11 [ QSTOR-10087 ]

• Added an Alert for when a OS Software RAID1 mirror enters a degraded state. [ QSTOR-10080 ]

• Added support LSI-3008C0 model controllers. [ QSTOR-9841 ]

• Added a check to hardware Enclosure Discovery to automatically filter out enclosures that do not have any drive slots. [ QSTOR-9716 ]

High Availability Failover

• Fixed an issue with the I/O fencing tool where it was reporting not-supported on reservation capable nvme devices. [ QSTOR-10114 ]

Network Interfaces

• Updated static routes to use modern ip route syntax with the 'proto static' option. [ QSTOR-10103 ]

• Updated netplan conversion to by default create static routes using ip route to match the original netplan static route rules. [ QSTOR-10103 ]

Storage Pool Management

• Fixed: Activate HA Failover Group now works for Storage Pools in a degraded state missing a few devices. [ QSTOR-10100 ]

• Fixed: Create HA Failover Group now allows a force option if there are a small number of drives missing on the secondary node. Note that the operation will still be blocked if most/all of the drives are missing from the secondary node. [ QSTOR-10100 ]

• Added support for Zero Touch Maintenance Automatic Global Hot spare marking of Hardware RAID0 Passthrough units. [ QSTOR-9865 ]

Storage Volumes

• Fixed: NVMe Target Storage volumes now persist their serial numbers correctly on reboot [ QSTOR-9992 ]

• Fixed: the NVMe Target now correctly re-exports the allowed portals on system boot. [ QSTOR-9992 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Updated mellanox-ofed-install.sh script to support the latest Focal platform 5.15.0-91-generic kernel. [ QSTOR-10117 ]

• Updated the GPG repo keys for QuantaStor RedHat / and Almalinux platform installs [ QSTOR-10107 ]

• Fixed a incorrect error log when upgrading the Kernel and Drivers on the Ubuntu Focal platform. The upgrade would succeed when the error was seen, but it was unclear to the user without full log analysis. [ QSTOR-10106 ]

• Updated upgrade manager logic to ensure recommended dependency packages are always selected for install during core service and security upgrades. [ QSTOR-10101 ]

• Fixed an issue with the qs-distupgrade script where some QuantaStor core package changes were not being applied after a platform dist-upgrade from bionic to focal. [ QSTOR-10132 ]

• Added better logging of systemctl service enablement and restart during qstorservice package installs. [ QSTOR-10134 ]

v6.2.5.032 (January 18th 2024)

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 ]

v6.2.4.001 (December 20th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.4.

Release Notes

Network Shares

• Added logic to prevent empty '[]' share entries in smb.conf

v6.2.3.045 (December 13th 2023)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v6.2.3.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

• Add a Storage System Connectivity checker dialog to the Storage System's menu items. A scan will verify network connectivity from/to other Storage Systems and all connected clients to ensure proper configuration of network routes and use of jumbo frames. [ QSTOR-10000 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

• Create Ceph Members up front and after the cluster has been created in the overall create cluster process. [ QSTOR-10040 ]

• Set the default ceph config value mon\_osd\_min\_down\_reporters to 2. [ QSTOR-9991 ]

• Fix issue where CephFS share mutli-delete showed symlink errors in log file and WUI via event updates. [ QSTOR-9963 ]

• Fixed an issue with the ceph.conf file after adding and removing monitors. [ QSTOR-9955 ]

• Make use the monmap and update the 'mon host' key value pair in the ceph.conf for new monitors versus the previous implementation that uses its own stanza. [ QSTOR-9945 ]

Disk Management

• Fixed correlation delay issue related to newly-created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9993 ]

• Added logic to ensure write-through cache mode is enabled on SAS and SATA HDDs. [ QSTOR-9989 ]

• Fixed a delay in the correlation between newly-created hwUnits and their respective physical disks [ QSTOR-9985 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

• Supports discovery of the SupremeRAID SR-1000 GRaid card [ QSTOR-9930 ]

High Availability Failover

• Fixed an issue with QuantaStor storage pool object caching just after HA failover completes. [ QSTOR-10032 ]

• Fixed bug which allowed disks which do not support multipath to be added to HA pools [ QSTOR-10009 ]

• Added a check to ensure the samba nmbd service is started on HA pool failover. [ QSTOR-9943 ]

• Added logic to detect and close open file handles for third party software or utilities during HA pool export. [ QSTOR-9939 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

• Set default Cloud Container Cache size to 8GB from unlimited. [ QSTOR-10024 ]

Network Interfaces

• Improvements made to the netplan conversion feature. [ QSTOR-10003 ]

• Added a check to the modify storage system and modify grid network settings dialogs that at least one DNS server is configured. [ QSTOR-9988 ]

Network Shares

• Fixed an issue when multi-deleting multiple shares and one or more shares failed to delete if they were in use. NFS exports rules for the correctly deleted shares are now properly removed. [ QSTOR-9910 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

• Fixed an issue with manual triggered replication schedules running again on a node that was previously offline once it is powered on again. [ QSTOR-10042 ]

• Added logic to help ensure N-way and cascading replication retain the delta snapshots needed for incremental replication in the event a node in the chain is powered off. [ QSTOR-10029 ]

• Fixed an issue with remote replication report cleanup for HA configurations. [ QSTOR-10018 ]

• Fixed an issue with enabling Snapshots. [ QSTOR-10011 ]

• Fixed an issue with cascading Replication Schedules when one system is turned off for a period of time. [ QSTOR-9946 ]

• Added support for zfs replication resume in the event a replication task is interrupted midflight. Replication is resumed using the ZFS send/recv resume token on the next schedule trigger. [ QSTOR-7639 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

• Fixed an issue with upgrades from legacy bionic set ups. [ QSTOR-10005 ]

• Fixed an issue with the aptoffline iso repo and qs-distupgrade [ QSTOR-9947 ]

• Added support for Ceph Quincy upgrades up to version 17.2.6. [ QSTOR-9742 ]