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Revision as of 13:08, 13 June 2022

Contents

ChangeLog

The change log contains a detailed summary of the changes made for each new release of QuantaStor. For information on how to upgrade your storage system please see the Upgrade Guide.

Versioning System

QuantaStor version numbers consist of four (4) parts. A major number (M), minor number (N), maintenance update number (U) and build number (B) of the form M.N.U.B such as 5.8.2.006.

QuantaStor upgrades go directly from whatever version you are running to the latest version, with no interim steps so for example if you are at v5.6 you will upgrade directly to the latest version which may be v5.8.

Major Version Number

QuantaStor v5.x is the current Major release version.

Upgrading from QuantaStor 4.x releases requires a small window of downtime depending on the configuration, inline with kernel and security updates.

Legacy upgrades from older versions (older than 3.x), requires exporting Storage Pools, reloading the OS with QuantaStor 5.x install media, and then importing the storage pools and performing a restore of the configuration database using the Storage System Recovery Manager.

Minor Version Number

The minor version number increments with each minor product update release of QuantaStor which comes out every 2 - 4 months. Releases typically include a combination of new features and some maintenance fixes.

Most releases can be applied without a reboot and zero downtime as they rarely include driver changes. If a release does require a reboot we mark it specially with a large tag "REBOOT REQUIRED", and we recommend that you find an appropriate maintenance window in which to apply the upgrade.

In general, reboots are only required when the qstortarget package has been upgraded. If you see that a new version of that package is available, know that a reboot will be required to complete the upgrade.

Maintenance Update

If the release includes maintenance version number like 5.8.2 or 5.8.3 it represents a update to address one or more support tickets.

These updates generally do not contain new features, only fixes to address specific issues. Maintenance releases generally ship once a month. All Hotfix release packages are provided against the current stable release.

Build Number

The build number and corresponding build reference hash can be largely ignored. The build number simply increments with each commit that is made to the source tree. The hash is provided to make it easier for OSNEXUS support and engineering to quickly confirm difference between your current running release and any more modern release.

Boot Install Image and other downloads

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

note: older versions of QuantaStor install media and CLI can be found here.


v5.12.1.028 (June 10th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.12.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixes bug where we are not writing the configuration for the ceph cluster properly in the ceph.conf file. [ QSTOR-8847 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Ceph cluster delete where Ceph block pools were not removed prior to deleting the OSDs. [ QSTOR-8820 ]
  • Fixes bug where not all S3 users would be successfully created during batch creation. [ QSTOR-8792 ]
  • Improve global quotas for Ceph Object Storage. [ QSTOR-6655 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixes Disk Perf read test tool in WUI to hide paths of dm-mpath devices [ QSTOR-8841 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixes auto detection and auto enclosure layout selection for Seagate 5U84 JBODs [ QSTOR-8844 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue related with HA Storage Pool failover with some RHEL_LIKE platform checks [ QSTOR-8835 ]
  • Fix a rare issue with HA Pool failover when the pool is a destination pool for replication. [ QSTOR-8833 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with QuantaStor detecting and importing Static IP address configuration supplied manually during the Focal platform ISO install. [ QSTOR-8821 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Add a new 'share-search' to the CLI. [ QSTOR-8812 ]

SNMP

  • Fix an issue with systemd service restarts and qs-snmpagentd restart in the qs-util command line helper utility. [ QSTOR-8846 ]

Security

  • Add support for re-key pool with new key encryption key KEK [ QSTOR-8816 ]
  • Clearing the passphrase for an encrypted pool will now fix the passphrase requirement on the storage pool object. [ QSTOR-8787 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Adds support for 3-way mirror of metadata-offload vdevs in scale-up Storage Pools [ QSTOR-8849 ]
  • Adds qs-perftest CLI utility for establishing basic media and pool performance baseline using dd [ QSTOR-8848 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed display issue in the Upgrade Manager UI for the platform upgrade field [ QSTOR-8749 ]

v5.12.0.370 (May 26th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.12.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Adds support for detection and alerting of known bad firmware levels on HDD/SSD/NVMe media [ QSTOR-8755 ]
  • Add IT Service Management (ITSM) module support for alerts making it easy to integrate alerting with popular ITSM service providers via webhook URLs. [ QSTOR-8626 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Deprecated the 'cleanupOrphans' option during Ceph Bucket Delete [ QSTOR-8803 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Ceph Cluster delete where OSDs were being deleted before Object Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-8779 ]
  • Deprecated auto-creation of a default ceph user [ QSTOR-8767 ]
  • The WUI now supports a S3 bucket name validator that is compliant with Amazon S3 naming conventions. [ QSTOR-8728 ]
  • Simplify ceph cluster create from the QS CLI. [ QSTOR-8708 ]
  • Add support for erasure coded scale-out block pool. [ QSTOR-8685 ]
  • Place the "Health Details" tab first in the Ceph Cluster deck of tabs. [ QSTOR-8671 ]
  • Allow more time for bucket delete [ QSTOR-8667 ]
  • Block deletion of S3 object pool when there are S3 gateways. [ QSTOR-8509 ]
  • Adds built-in load-balancer for S3 object storage which boosts performance and provides high-availability integration with floating VIFs [ QSTOR-7921 ]

Disk Management

  • Added a 'Revision' property to nvme disk objects. [ QSTOR-8754 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add support for the Adaptec 1000-16e HBA cards [ QSTOR-8729 ]
  • Added support for the Dell 355 HBA cards [ QSTOR-8713 ]
  • Added enclosure support for Seagate AP and 2U12 JBOD. [ QSTOR-8701 ]
  • Compatibility added for SMC-branded LSI HBA cards [ QSTOR-8700 ]
  • Add custom alt-name text to External system selection in Configure Media Connectivity Dialog (if present). [ QSTOR-8692 ]
  • Added support for the 2-port WDC Data24 External NVMe JBOF enclosure. [ QSTOR-8645 ]
  • Added Enclosure layout for Seagate 2U24 HA systems. [ QSTOR-6038 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue on Redhat Platforms with High Availability vifs staying in 'Standby' after a system reboot. [ QSTOR-8725 ]
  • Resolved an issue with PCS resource cleanup on RedHat platforms. [ QSTOR-8710 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Updated rclone to 1.58.0 [ QSTOR-8715 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added logic to restart the Redhat platform network.service if it fails to start on a system boot. [ QSTOR-8798 ]
  • Adds support for FC/iSCSI vendor model emulation of 3rd party SANs for compatibility with IBM SVC [ QSTOR-8750 ]
  • Fixes bug where NVME and ISCSI enabled options for NICs were not being persisted after disabling the interface. [ QSTOR-8686 ]
  • Fixes bug where duplicate network interfaces were being written to the /etc/network/interfaces file. [ QSTOR-8643 ]
  • Added support for Mellanox OFED lossless networking on supported NICs. [ QSTOR-8362 ]
  • Show Bond children under their parent in the tree view. Provide a Network Port name search bar in the System menu area that includes the ability to filter-out Offline and Bonded Network Ports. [ QSTOR-7591 ]

Network Shares

  • Add support for Network Shares to work with Resilio and FTP. [ QSTOR-8452 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Enhance the CLI resource-group-resource-remove to support resource-list specified by object name [ QSTOR-8702 ]
  • Minor fix for qs lic-get [ QSTOR-8691 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Use lz4 for replication when compression is enabled. [ QSTOR-8752 ]
  • Detect and update tasks in case of failures during replication. [ QSTOR-8634 ]
  • Fix an issue where the Replication Schedule Create dialog was incorrectly filtering out Ceph Pools and associated resources. [ QSTOR-6635 ]
  • Fixed an issue with remote replication involving shares from HA storage pools. [ QSTOR-3530 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Added Emulation mode options for FC WWPN mapping and QuantaStor device identity. [ QSTOR-8712 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate the SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-8774 ]

Security

  • Added more support for KMIP protocol for the Key Server Profile feature. [ QSTOR-8689 ]

Service Core

  • Update the quantastor python client program for 5.12 release. [ QSTOR-8785 ]
  • Fixed an issue with QuantaStor service startup on Redhat platforms with bonded network interfaces. [ QSTOR-8769 ]
  • Block sharing of binding addresses for resource groups. [ QSTOR-8703 ]
  • New feature added to create subnet bindings for multi-tenancy resource groups. [ QSTOR-8542 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Minor fix to the alert message for hot spare usage. [ QSTOR-8806 ]
  • Implemented feature to expanda an existing Storage Pool when the underlying disks' size has increased. [ QSTOR-8748 ]
  • Added logic to automatically hide discovered OS MD software raid from the QuantaStor UI. If the OS MD software raid becomes degraded it will re-appear in the UI as a storage pool object. [ QSTOR-8693 ]
  • Add WUI support for adding ZFS metadata and deduplication devices to pool. [ QSTOR-8659 ]
  • Fixed a bug where a zfs pool had a spare disk in the "UNAVAIL" state and could not be deleted from the pool using the Quantastor WUI. [ QSTOR-8646 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updated Redhat platform support for RHEL 8.6 release [ QSTOR-8795 ]
  • Change the default to upgrade without driver/kernel changes in the 'Upgrade Manager' dialog. [ QSTOR-8747 ]
  • Updated Redhat 8 based platfroms to deploy Kernel 4.18.0-348.23.1
  • Updated mellanox OFED installer script to OFED 5.6 [ QSTOR-8734 ]
  • Updated AWS CLI package to 2.4.24 [ QSTOR-8650 ]
  • Removed QuantaStor overrides of os-release and lsb-release files and reverted them back to the Platform default settings. [ QSTOR-8618 ]
  • Added a fix that forces grub to skip probing the selected OS install disk for legacy or other OS installs during Bionic platform ISO installs. Previously, the Bionic platform install could hang at 66% of the 'update-grub' process if the OS disk was not new or completely wiped of all data/metadata prior to the install. [ QSTOR-8829 ]

Web Manager

  • Filter out the usage of the internal S3 User 'qsobjadmin'. [ QSTOR-8766 ]
  • Add certificate browsing capability to the create S3 reverse proxy dialog. [ QSTOR-8737 ]
  • Allow the "!" in the 'Add System to Storage Grid' dialog's password field. [ QSTOR-8705 ]
  • Provide the ability to change all time zone settings in a Grid. The new Grid menu items is, ' 'Modify Grid Time Zone Settings'. [ QSTOR-8615 ]
  • Increases the size of the chooser buttons and improve the color contrast for the buttons in the 'Create OSDs & Journals'. [ QSTOR-8597 ]
  • Show 'Caps lock in on' message in Login dialog when set. [ QSTOR-6815 ]
  • Show the 'Total Available' and 'Total Selected' item counts in the dual list choosers. [ QSTOR-4766 ]

v5.11.10.001 (April 29th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.10.

Release Notes

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed further instances of duplicate DNS entries in resolv.conf [ QSTOR-8741 ]

v5.11.9.001 (April 28th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

QuantaStor 5.11.9 was deprecated by 5.11.10

Release Notes

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with duplicate DNS entries occurring in resolv.conf for non-QuantaStor managed DNS servers. [ QSTOR-8730 ]

v5.11.8.003 (April 22nd 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.8.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Fix a failover issue with unmounting nested shares before the parent share. [ QSTOR-8723 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue with storage pool grow. [ QSTOR-8656 ]

v5.11.7.091 (March 4th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.7.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Hide the 'Used By' column in the physical disk grid for the Ceph Multi-OSD Create Dialog. Widen the Ceph Multi-OSD Create Dialog to view more information in the physical disk grid w/o scrolling. Show the lock overlay in the Storage Pool tree for encrypted Ceph Pools. [ QSTOR-8559 ]
  • Add detailed health status for Ceph Cluster. [ QSTOR-8552 ]
  • Fixed an issue when batch creating 5k+ S3 Buckets [ QSTOR-8548 ]
  • Fixed an issue with s3 user batch create when creating 1k+ s3 users at a time. [ QSTOR-8543 ]

Disk Management

  • Adds file browsing to pool key import dialog. [ QSTOR-8611 ]
  • Added multipath configuration support for multiport NVMe devices. [ QSTOR-8418 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fix starting slot index for the Dell PowerEdge R740xd2. [ QSTOR-8581 ]
  • Add new Dell enclosure layouts for 5th gen servers (R750, R650). [ QSTOR-8579 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with the NFS exports being available for multiple pools on HA failover when .zfs snapshot browsing is enabled. [ QSTOR-8640 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Support for systemd-resolve DNS management for focal distributions. [ QSTOR-8591 ]
  • Improved support for legacy network interface naming on ubuntu distributions. Blocked support for legacy network interface naming on RedHat. [ QSTOR-8558 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Reduce the cooldown period for resource (Network Share/Storage Volume) usage by a replication or snapshot schedule. [ QSTOR-8519 ]
  • Minor change to an error message in Network Share and Storage Volume delete to indicate the snapshot is in use by a snapshot schedule or a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-4261 ]

SNMP

  • Regenerate SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-8621 ]

Service Core

  • Fixes connection retry logic such that grid resyncs can be avoided on most bad network configurations [ QSTOR-8638 ]
  • Fixed an issue with systemd services starting correctly on QuantaStor systems using LVM for the OS disk. [ QSTOR-8575 ]
  • Fixes bug where renaming storage system would not update the location constraints. [ QSTOR-7062 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Updated pool profiles to merge SSD/NVMe and HDD tunings for each I/O Profile. Removed fifo\_batch adjustments for SSD/NVMe. Note: this will remove default-ssd as a pool profile, please reconfigure your pool profile to 'default' or another pool profile that better matches your use case. [ QSTOR-8602 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fix an extremely rare case of storage volume shown under a wrong snapshot in the Web UI. [ QSTOR-8605 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Updates RedHat platform support to RHEL 8.5 [ QSTOR-8636 ]
  • Updated RedHat platform support to RHEL 8.5 [ QSTOR-8582 ]

Web Manager

  • Detect when the user tries to Create a Storage Pool High-Availability Group without a Site Cluster and display an appropriate error message. [ QSTOR-8642 ]

v5.11.6.001 (February 11th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.6.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with systemd ceph osd startup dependencies. [ QSTOR-8574 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix a minor issue showing snapshots created by a replication schedule as orphans. [ QSTOR-8573 ]

v5.11.5.004 (February 3rd 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.5.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with creating a Virtual Interface for a Scale-out Object use case when there are multiple gateways configured [ QSTOR-8555 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes a bug with legacy naming systemd link files that caused networking to go down after rebooting. [ QSTOR-8557 ]

Network Shares

  • Fix a regression with large number of Network Shares slowing down service startup. [ QSTOR-8556 ]

v5.11.4.005 (February 1st 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with creating erasure coded pools introduced in the 5.11.2 release. [ QSTOR-8544 ]

Web Manager

  • Added basic character key validation for DNS entries in the storage system modify dialog. The server will block DNS entry modification if the user tries to add an invalid name server. [ QSTOR-8422 ]

v5.11.3.017 (January 27th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.3.

Release Notes

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes bug where you cannot remove some nameservers and search suffix if there is left over resolvconf configurations and there are no DHCP interfaces configured. [ QSTOR-8532 ]
  • Changing network interface naming convention is not supported on RHEL/CentOS systems. [ QSTOR-8516 ]
  • Blocks use of VLAN ids outside of range 0-4095 [ QSTOR-8402 ]
  • Adds support for creating a new network bond port with an IP used by a child physical port. Ownership of the IP is automatically passed to the bond on creation. [ QSTOR-7735 ]

Network Shares

  • Increased default NFS daemon thread count from 8 to 64. [ QSTOR-8527 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix a minor UI regression not showing replication reports. [ QSTOR-8536 ]

v5.11.2.107 (January 24th 2022)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Fixes issue with Alert Manager settings not showing and saving correctly after grid formation. [ QSTOR-8500 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with the Ceph CRUSH rules for SSD based OSD's placing the OSD's in the wrong crushmap. [ QSTOR-8497 ]
  • Automatically sets the Storage Pool field when the 'Modify Redundancy (CRUSH) Rule Selection' is launched from the Scale-out Storage Pools tree. [ QSTOR-8496 ]
  • Add batch create support to the S3 bucket and user create dialogs. Add multi-del support for S3 buckets and users. [ QSTOR-8494 ]
  • Adds a search bar in 'Storage Management -> S3 Buckets' and 'Security -> S3 Users' to allow users to search for buckets and users by name. [ QSTOR-8486 ]
  • Fix issue where Journal device deletes for encrypted Ceph Clusters fails. [ QSTOR-8484 ]
  • Add ability to delete orphaned Ceph Journal Devices via the cli. [ QSTOR-8480 ]
  • Improved encrypted OSD clean up. [ QSTOR-8458 ]
  • Added Ceph Pacific to the RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.4 installer and an optional Bionic ISO. [ QSTOR-8423 ]
  • Added Ceph Pacific to the RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.4 installer and an optional Bionic ISO. [ QSTOR-7204 ]
  • Fixed an issue with configuration when recreating a Ceph Monitor on a Ceph Member [ QSTOR-6591 ]

Disk Management

  • Fix an issue where the Physical Disk tree view, when expanded, would collapse on incoming System Update events. [ QSTOR-8479 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add server enclosure for Supermicro Server 6029P (2U24) and Supermicro BigTwin Quad-node Server (2U24)). [ QSTOR-8485 ]
  • Improve NVMe Software Controller target logins during boot. [ QSTOR-8439 ]
  • Add the 'Dell PowerEdge R740 (2U0)' server type images to the enclosure configuration so they are selectable in the System Modify dialog. [ QSTOR-8417 ]
  • Add support for additional Supermicro NVMe server enclosure views [ QSTOR-8222 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA Group state transitions [ QSTOR-8436 ]
  • Removed ability to offline, online, or restart site vifs [ QSTOR-8220 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Removed 'attach container' option when enabling a Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-5232 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed a minor issue with names for site VIFs could exceed the maximum character limit. [ QSTOR-8308 ]
  • Minor CLI changes to "qs virtual-interface-create" and "qs "network-port-modify" [ QSTOR-6511 ]

Network Shares

  • Add the ability to auto cleanup missing transient Network Share snapshots. [ QSTOR-8513 ]
  • Fix issue where disabling a share did not not drop the SMB session (terminate the client connectivity to that share). [ QSTOR-8454 ]
  • Add ability to specify "read only" or "read/write" for the access permissions of the snapshots created by backup policies, snapshot schedules, and replication schedules. [ QSTOR-7681 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed a duplicate checkpoint creation issue during certain Remote Replication scenarios. [ QSTOR-8482 ]
  • Fix backup policy so it can continue working if the source share is on a HA pool and a failover happens. [ QSTOR-8461 ]
  • Minor fix to filter the GMT snapshots as source share from backup policy dialog. [ QSTOR-8460 ]
  • Fix a minor issue with delta tags not getting updated after increasing the max deltas on a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-3518 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Adds support for setting custom IQN for storage systems. [ QSTOR-8466 ]

Security

  • Minor fix to allow hyphen in domain name in SSO [ QSTOR-8477 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue when modifying a Backup Policy. [ QSTOR-8507 ]
  • Log rotation configuration files now reside in standard /etc/logrotate.d location [ QSTOR-8474 ]
  • Added support to switch between predictable or legacy naming for network interfaces. [ QSTOR-8456 ]
  • Upgraded storcli to latest version [ QSTOR-8414 ]
  • Fixed an issue with updating DNS nameservers. [ QSTOR-6842 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Add the ability to reserving 1GB of space for pool protection in case the pool gets 100% full condition. [ QSTOR-8448 ]
  • Prevent usage of a SED encrypted disk if it is already in use by a previously exported SED encrypted Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-8400 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an install issue with xenial platforms that prevented some services from starting correctly on boot. [ QSTOR-8463 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the qs-upgrade script for an unavailable python3 dependency on xenial platforms. [ QSTOR-8463 ]

Web Manager

  • Adds optimizations to WUI login to speed up Synchronization stage for large grid configurations [ QSTOR-8501 ]
  • Adds the ability to create system usage acknowledgement notifications in the UI. [ QSTOR-8450 ]
  • Show the Enclosure's 'Altname' in the Central Hardware Enclosures Tab / Grid if the user has provided one using the Modify Enclosure dialog. [ QSTOR-8433 ]
  • Filter the disks shown in the Identify Dialog based on the selected Storage Pool Device Group and the hardware disks that are identifiable. [ QSTOR-8432 ]
  • Allow running Disk Performance Test on disks that are used by a pool. [ QSTOR-8429 ]
  • Adds additional properties to the 'Storage System Properties' to show Active Directory configuration settings. [ QSTOR-8427 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the Controller Disk grid was not showing associated Pool devices and Pools columns in a RAID Controller only configuration (N/A for HBA configurations). This fixes the auto selection of Disks in the Disk Identify dialog when launched from a Storage Pool Device group node in the tree view. [ QSTOR-8425 ]
  • Removed 'Close X' button from the login dialog and system usage notification dialog. [ QSTOR-8403 ]

v5.11.1.001 (December 3rd 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added Ceph Pacific to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 installer and an optional Bionic ISO. [ QSTOR-7204 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where a storage pool in a degraded state would trigger a HA Failover. This fixes a regression introduced in 5.10.x [ QSTOR-8421 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fix WUI issue where Storage Volume Snapshots were not selectable in the Central grid, so their menu systems were not appearing. [ QSTOR-3782 ]

v5.11.0.240 (November 23rd 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.11.0.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Size the dirent cache (MDCACHE) down as small as possible in the ganesha.conf file. [ QSTOR-8386 ]
  • Ensure the Ceph Cluster configuration file is cleaned up after removing a member and on that former member ('ceph.conf'). [ QSTOR-8228 ]
  • Improved PG count calculation for Ceph Clusters [ QSTOR-8186 ]
  • Add Ceph multi-rgw create support. [ QSTOR-8172 ]
  • Optimized bucket deletion for large buckets. [ QSTOR-7898 ]
  • Add validation for Ceph Pool erasure coded and replica count based on the number of members in the Ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-7857 ]
  • Add a warning to Config Analyzer when the front-end and back-end interfaces for the Ceph cluster are the same. [ QSTOR-6745 ]
  • Support the creation of multiple Metadata Servers (MDS) for a given Ceph Cluster. Provide option to set number of active and standby MDS instances. [ QSTOR-6067 ]

Disk Management

  • Provide the ability to scan multiple systems or a selection of systems for new disks. [ QSTOR-6677 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added logic to ensure HA failover is not triggered based on stale IP information for a HA vif on a node that was suddenly powered off. [ QSTOR-8381 ]
  • Fix issue where the Add Site Cluster VIF dialog was not selecting the correct ha group or site cluster contextual when launched from the HA group node in the tree. [ QSTOR-8340 ]
  • In the create HA group, scope secondary systems to the given site cluster members. [ QSTOR-8338 ]
  • Show the Storage Pool HA Groups grid in the central viewing area of the WUI. Previously, we were only showing Storage Pool HA Groups in the tree view. [ QSTOR-8322 ]
  • Incorporated additional tunable properties into HA Group Create. [ QSTOR-8307 ]
  • Block creation of second cluster heartbeat ring on centos8/rhel8 [ QSTOR-8245 ]
  • Encrypted HA pools support saving encryption keys locally or on a designated KMIP server. [ QSTOR-8134 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Adds the mellanox-ofed-install.sh script for installing the Mellanox OFED and drivers on Red Hat based platforms. [ QSTOR-8028 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Upgraded rclone version. [ QSTOR-8050 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added conversion of netplan configuration files to network interfaces style network config files on first system boot. [ QSTOR-8234 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue where the nfs-server was being re-enabled on QuantaStor upgrade when nfs-ganesha was enabled on the default NFS port. [ QSTOR-8394 ]
  • Simplify the use of sub-shares. Sub-shares will now be referred to as share-alias for a sub-directory within the parent share. [ QSTOR-8363 ]
  • Allows for alternate delimiters for nested network share SMB sessions. [ QSTOR-8357 ]
  • Fixed an issue with adding nfs access rules that matched the examples in the dialog. [ QSTOR-8341 ]
  • Add an option to Network Shares so that NFS clients are able to see contents of the hidden .zfs snapshot directory from a NFS mount. [ QSTOR-8216 ]
  • Minor fix to remove CIFS access to a share for a deleted user. [ QSTOR-8123 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Update QS CLI for Windows [ QSTOR-8033 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Add the ability to freeze/hold a volume or share snapshot. Adding a hold on a snapshot prevents it from getting deleted. Releasing the hold will allow deletion. [ QSTOR-8343 ]
  • Add the ability to create Network Share snapshots with a delayed clone option via QS CLI. [ QSTOR-8333 ]
  • Minor fix to Stop Replication task. [ QSTOR-8098 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB. [ QSTOR-8251 ]

Security

  • Added support for Storage Pool Encryption Key Export for Ceph pools. [ QSTOR-8320 ]
  • KMIP server encryption key storage support for encrypted ZFS High Availability Storage pools. [ QSTOR-8309 ]
  • Adds widget for encryption key storage options to the storage pool modify dialog and the Ceph cluster modify dialog. [ QSTOR-8280 ]
  • Add KMIP Key Profile creation support to the WUI. Added Support for storing encryption keys on KMIP server for ZFS encrypted pools and SED encrypted Ceph Clusters. [ QSTOR-8133 ]
  • Adds support for hardware encryption through the use of SED media that is TCG Opal 2 or newer or Ruby compliant. [ QSTOR-7837 ]
  • Fixed an issue with UI auto logout [ QSTOR-7814 ]

Service Core

  • Replaced legacy startup scripts with new systemd configuration. [ QSTOR-8102 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Show a popup warning in the Create Storage Pool when the user chooses RAID0 configuration. [ QSTOR-8166 ]
  • Fix an issue with pool create on Centos8 failed after reusing disks from an exported pool. [ QSTOR-8146 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Prevent duplicate host entries from being created with the same name. [ QSTOR-8361 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added support for deploying QuantaStor on Red Hat 8.4 platforms. [ QSTOR-7960 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix issue where the Modify Bucket dialog would not launch from the Ribbon Bar if a bucket node was not selected in the tree view. [ QSTOR-8395 ]
  • Widen the Physical Disk copy dialog to see the full disk ID in combos. Fix minor context setting on issues on combos when the dialog is launched from the Ribbon bar. [ QSTOR-8384 ]
  • Fix minor enablement of nested shares in create share dialog. [ QSTOR-8380 ]
  • Fix the enablement rules for the Tertiary settings in the 'Modify Storage Pool High-Availability Group' dialog. [ QSTOR-8368 ]
  • Change the 'Allow Special Chars' in the 'Security Manager' dialog from read-only to editable. A user will be able to change special characters that are allowed (or not allowed) for password fields from the WUI. [ QSTOR-8336 ]
  • Launch new table view dialogs from the 'Systems Online' and the 'Pools Online' tiles in the Grid Dashboard when the user clicks on the 'View Details' link. Both table view dialogs support right-click menu item selection for management functions. [ QSTOR-8324 ]
  • Change the 'Recover' button, in the ribbon under the 'Storage Management' sub-tab in the 'Storage Pool' menu system to 'Add Hot-spares'. Sync up the menu system, dialog captions, and error messages to match the terminology change. [ QSTOR-8233 ]
  • Added license information to the Storage Systems grid in the web manager. [ QSTOR-8197 ]
  • Remove the repeat password requirement from the Add System dialog. [ QSTOR-8178 ]
  • Detect if a Unicode Fullwidth Colon exist in forms, so we do not add an extra colon when there are label/field pairings. [ QSTOR-8168 ]
  • Fix the Create Storage Volume dialog launch issue in the "Setup Storage Pool - Scale-out Block" section of the Getting Started wizard. [ QSTOR-8110 ]
  • Updated Ceph Pool Create and Ceph MDS Create dialogs in the UI [ QSTOR-6400 ]

v5.10.10.001 (November 18th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Changed replication triggers to allow replication from a degraded or resilvering Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-8389 ]

v5.10.9.007 (November 2nd 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.10.9.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Allow customization of HA failover timeout for large setups. [ QSTOR-8285 ]

Network Shares

  • Ensure GMT snapshot deleted at the zfs layer is marked missing if manually deleted outside of the QuantaStor management layer. [ QSTOR-8291 ]

v5.10.8.008 (October 22nd 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with Enclosure discovery and cabling verification for Dell ME484 enclosures [ QSTOR-8260 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with Network Share Quota discovery on ZFS Storage Pools [ QSTOR-8265 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue to allow '_' underscore characters in backup policy names. [ QSTOR-8271 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Backup Policies where a value in Max File Age Days / Retention Days could still be applied even if the Purge Policy is disabled. [ QSTOR-8264 ]

v5.10.7.010 (October 18th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed logic to remove the deprecated site cluster default-resource-stickiness property and replace it with the modern rsc_defaults version. [ QSTOR-8242 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed: when all network interfaces in a bonded port are disconnected the bond and child vlan or vif interfaces now transition to offline state. [ QSTOR-8221 ]
  • Fixed: link aggregation calculation for bonded port link speeds is now correct on Red Hat based platforms. [ QSTOR-8221 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue that incorrectly caused Network Shares with cifs access disabled but NFS client access entries to transition to an offline / disabled state. This fixes a regression introduced in 5.10.0 [ QSTOR-8249 ]
  • Fixed an issue with renaming network shares. This fixes a regression introduced in 5.10 [ QSTOR-8239 ]

Security

  • Set SMB version 2 as minimum for cifs/smb shares on new deployments. [ QSTOR-8241 ]
  • Updated QuantaStor web interface to require TLS v1.2 as minimum for https access. [ QSTOR-8241 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with qs-distupgrade from xenial to bionic moving the multipath.conf file as a backup instead of copying it. [ QSTOR-8243 ]

v5.10.6.003 (October 6th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Enhanced Storage Pool HA failover check for instances where access to the physical disks is lost.

Enhanced High Availability Failover Group connectivity check policies with better tracing for when the failover check policy matches. [ QSTOR-8205 ]

Licensing

  • Removed license check for some view calls. [ QSTOR-8223 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with setting static routes on Red Hat based platforms.

Fixed an issue with static routes persisting on interfaces after reboot on Red Hat based platforms. [ QSTOR-8215 ]

  • Fix an issue with VLAN interfaces on Red Hat based platforms. [ QSTOR-8210 ]

Network Shares

  • Minor fixes to CIFS options after disabling VSS snapshot browsing. [ QSTOR-8218 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Enabled qs-distupgrade for configurations that have site clusters configured. [ QSTOR-8202 ]

Web Manager

  • Web UI fix to remove deleted shares from showing up in dialogs. [ QSTOR-8055 ]

v5.10.5.001 (September 27th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with hyphen characters '-' in NFS netgroups.

v5.10.4.002 (September 21st 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.10.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Minor cleanup of /export after deleting Ceph File System [ QSTOR-6466 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue with HA storage pool export on Red Hat based distros. [ QSTOR-8180 ]

Network Shares

  • Allow creation of shares with same name on scale-out and scale-up pools in the same grid. [ QSTOR-8154 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a corner case with grub-pc for Xenial to Bionic Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade. [ QSTOR-8177 ]

v5.10.3.001 (September 14th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Resolved a few corner cases with Xenial to Bionic Platform upgrades via qs-distupgrade. [ QSTOR-8174 ]

v5.10.2.004 (September 12th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.10.2.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added retry logic to OSD create to fix issues related to temporary Disk I/O timeouts. [ QSTOR-8142 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added enclosure support for 1U and 2U servers from ASUS. [ QSTOR-8159 ]
  • Adds new 4U90 bay enclosure layout for Supermicro 947E. [ QSTOR-8118 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where a deleted HA VIF could be rediscovered and added back into the site cluster configuration. [ QSTOR-8119 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Enabled Xenial to Bionic Platform upgrades with qs-distupgrade in this release. [ QSTOR-8162 ]

v5.10.1.003 (August 17th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.10.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Adds a check to make sure the pool is mounted before creating _snaps directories. [ QSTOR-8097 ]
  • Adds a check to handle missing XML tags in 'ceph status'. [ QSTOR-8097 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure and System views for Lenovo 1U servers. [ QSTOR-8094 ]

Not Set

  • Fixes bug where users would be able to add a system-node to the site cluster that is already a member of the cluster from the CLI. [ QSTOR-7963 ]

Security

  • Filter out Ceph pools for selection in the Export Key dialog. [ QSTOR-8101 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: The Storage Pool Degraded add spare alert now only triggers once when the issue first occurs and only when there are no available global or dedicated spares. [ QSTOR-8099 ]

Web Manager

  • Upgrade the Simplified Chinese WUI translation. [ QSTOR-8107 ]
  • Fix minor truncation issue in the Target Port Modify dialog for bonded ports. [ QSTOR-8092 ]

v5.10.0.156 (August 4th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Add more MDB sizing options to prepare for more block.db flexibility for future [ QSTOR-7999 ]
  • Added NFS Ganesha support for the RedHat 7.x and 8.x platforms [ QSTOR-7951 ]
  • Fix issue with CephFS share settings getting lost if multiple systems are turned off and brought back up. [ QSTOR-7891 ]
  • Auto fix clock skew when a Ceph Cluster is created or a new Ceph Cluster Monitor is added [ QSTOR-7886 ]
  • Enhance the S3 user display name field to support spaces. [ QSTOR-7858 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed an issue with the service startup for influxdb 1.8.7. [ QSTOR-8083 ]
  • Adds \[ACK\] marker to alert messages to hide alerts that have been Acknowledged. Use qs CLI alert-clear an alert-clear-all with new --ack option [ QSTOR-7978 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added Enclosure layouts for 1U and 2U Supermicro Icelake servers. [ QSTOR-8054 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixes bug where deleting a site vif makes it so you cannot create another site vif using the same IP address. [ QSTOR-8038 ]
  • Fixes bug where failovers would fail when more than one ha VIF is present. [ QSTOR-8024 ]
  • Adds logic to automatically start the pool if VIF is available and media devices are unlocked. [ QSTOR-7982 ]
  • Fixed a bug with setting a 'reboot required' flag after a failed pool export during an HA failover. [ QSTOR-7923 ]
  • Fixed an issue with HA node hanging [ QSTOR-7922 ]
  • Add feature to specify a Use Case for Site Cluster Virtual Interfaces. Use Cases include \`scaleup pool', 'scaleout filepool', 'scaleout object pool',l 'scaleout block pool', and 'grid primary'. Each Site Cluster Virtual Interfaces now have specialized validation checks to ensure the associated use case object is accessible, even in node failure. In addition, users can specify a set of custom Location Constraints to ensure the Site Cluster Virtual Interface's possible locations. [ QSTOR-7782 ]
  • Show 'Managed By', 'Started On', 'Use Case' and 'Use Case Object' columns in the new 'Site Cluster Virtual Interfaces' grid. [ QSTOR-7704 ]
  • When creating a Site Cluster VIF, only show specific systems in the site cluster when selecting a Target Port to attach to. [ QSTOR-7703 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixes issue with inaccurate RX/TX byte counters on displayed network ports [ QSTOR-7962 ]
  • Fixed a rare issue where VLAN Interfaces would not start consistently when first created. [ QSTOR-7915 ]

Network Shares

  • Add a popup message to inform the user when sub-directory is not specified in the Create Network Share Alias/Subshare dialog. [ QSTOR-8013 ]
  • Add SMB access based browsability for Network Shares. [ QSTOR-7973 ]
  • Created checkbox options in the Network Share Modify Dialog, on the Advanced options page, Under the 'CIFS/SMB Advanced Options' for 'Disable Oplocks' (oplocks) and 'macOS Interop Enhancements' (vfs objects = fruit). [ QSTOR-7961 ]
  • Fix VSS (Windows previous version) support for CephFS shares [ QSTOR-7958 ]
  • Delete \_snaps directory for shares after share delete [ QSTOR-7952 ]
  • Fix an issue where after revoking cifs access on a share, samba service needed to be restarted. [ QSTOR-7916 ]
  • Make scalability improvements to support thousands for shares. Also add the ability to batch create network shares. [ QSTOR-7877 ]
  • Added @netgroup support for NFS access [ QSTOR-7989 ]
  • Add support for nested shares for ZFS. [ QSTOR-7652 ]
  • Add support for discovering manually created share snapshots with no clones. [ QSTOR-4606 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Add long term retention for snapshots on the source side for replication schedules. [ QSTOR-8058 ]
  • This ticket addresses these issues by making mbuffer dynamically resize and by offering a checkbox on the Modify Network Port dialog to enable the hardware RX/TX buffer sizing optimizations. [ QSTOR-7970 ]
  • Added ability to configure a Replication Schedule to be automatically activated based on the movement of a Site VIF. [ QSTOR-7912 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-8032 ]

Security

  • Provide the ability in the WUI to export all the encryption key information for the specified Storage Pool into a block that can be used in the future to re-import the keys. The WUI will allow the user to save the key block to a user defined location on the machine local to the browser. [ QSTOR-8002 ]
  • Added feature for importing and exporting meta data for pool encryption keys. CLI commands 'qs pool-key-import' and 'qs pool-key-export'. [ QSTOR-7930 ]
  • Deprecate IBM Key Vault pool encryption key protection. WUI and CLI commands have been removed for the key vault feature. Remote key server KMIP encryption key protection will be implemented in future QuantaStor release. [ QSTOR-7805 ]

Service Core

  • 5.10 compatible python client program published to PyPi. [ QSTOR-8036 ]
  • Make minor adjustments to the session timeout on the server based upon password policy settings. [ QSTOR-7997 ]
  • Fixed some issues with updating the /etc/hosts file after creating VIF with FQDN specified. [ QSTOR-7975 ]
  • Implement chronyd on RHEL/CentOS for ntp services [ QSTOR-7965 ]
  • Fixes issue with gateway property not being set properly [ QSTOR-7767 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Adds new maintenance schedule option to run a periodic SSD TRIM on Storage Pools to support SSD media that does not operate well with continuous auto-TRIM enabled. [ QSTOR-7624 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with the Bionic ISO Installer kernel drivers introduced in 5.7.1 [ QSTOR-8071 ]

Web Manager

  • Removed the 'auto' option from the NFS Service Configuration dialog. The new Default Security Policy setting is "System" when Kerberos Security is disabled and "Kerberos" when it is enabled. [ QSTOR-7987 ]
  • Revise the Network Share main center region to be a West / East layout with primary shares and subshares in the West and snapshot details in the East. Make the East region collapsible. Change the icon for snapshot shares that are readonly to be darker than a regular share. [ QSTOR-7985 ]
  • Fixes 'qs share-modify' CLI command to better support adding and removing of SMB configuration options. [ QSTOR-7959 ]
  • Show the Object Count (as reported by Ceph) for all Ceph Pools in the Ceph Pool grid and main property view. [ QSTOR-7954 ]
  • Add WUI support to schedule trimming for compatible pools. [ QSTOR-7948 ]
  • Change the Storage Volume and Network Share dialog layouts to make use of a dual list chooser, so the user can easily see selected items. [ QSTOR-7934 ]
  • Perform auto clock skew fixes when a new NTP server is added [ QSTOR-7664 ]

v5.9.3.001 (June 4th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue where NFS exports with fsids were being re-exported during QuantaStor Software update without fsids. This was due to a legacy 4.x upgrade support that is no longer needed and has been removed. [ QSTOR-7953 ]

v5.9.2.015 (May 24th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

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Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added additional checks for OSD start on system boot if a hardware issue causes delays in making the OSD physical disks available on system startup. [ QSTOR-7907 ]

Network Shares

  • Added some optimizations to the network share discovery logic that will make working with lots of shares or lots of nested shares much more responsive. [ QSTOR-7911 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue when creating new User Roles. [ QSTOR-7910 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue where Encrypted Storage pools using Legacy encryption keys would not start. [ QSTOR-7928 ]
  • Added further checks and backups for Legacy Storage Pool Encryption Keys when upgrading to 5.9.x and newer releases. [ QSTOR-7928 ]
  • Fixed: Encrypted Storage Pool Disks that go missing and are not replaced completely will retain their crypttab entries until explicitly dismissed with the 'Clear Missing Disks' option. This fixes an issue introduced in 5.9.0 where disks that go missing temporarily would sometimes not properly decrypt again after a reboot. [ QSTOR-7927 ]
  • Added "qs pool-set-passphrase" to CLI. This brings cli parity to the Encrypted Storage Pool Passphrase management already present in the Web UI. [ QSTOR-7909 ]
  • Fixed an issue with shared NVMe disks not appearing in the Recover Pool/Add Spare Disks dialog for HA NVMe pools. [ QSTOR-7908 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with grub during the ISO installer when using EFI BIOS modes. [ QSTOR-7946 ]

v5.9.1.024 (May 6th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.9.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added a check to disable the global_id reclaim warning on nodes with Ceph Nautilus 14.2.20. The warning will be re-enabled in a later QuantaStor version when this warning will be enforced for upgrades. [ QSTOR-7895 ]
  • Fixed an issue with deleting replication rules not owned by an existing ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-7895 ]
  • Fixed an issue where replication rules were not being scoped to their associated ceph cluster when modifying a ceph storage pool. [ QSTOR-7895 ]
  • Fix RGW creation failure on a second cluster in the grid with the existence of a RGW on the first cluster created. [ QSTOR-7893 ]
  • Fixed an issue with renaming Ceph clusters via the Modify Cluster dialog. [ QSTOR-7882 ]
  • Fixed an issue with journal device create where the settings for WAL or MDB would use the defaults instead of those supplied by the user. Previously, custom settings would only take effect if you were logged into the UI of the Ceph Master Node. [ QSTOR-7878 ]
  • Added the ability to set custom rados gateway options via the qs rgw-modify cli. [ QSTOR-7872 ]
  • Fixed an issue that could block creating SSD OSDs by default on NVME disk devices without first unchecking all the journal create options in the multi-create OSD and Journals dialog. You can now just select the NVMe disks and click okay to get pure SSD OSDs without separate journals as expected. [ QSTOR-7859 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the ceph configuration file could be truncated when creating hundreds of OSDs. [ QSTOR-7855 ]
  • Added a Multi-delete OSD dialog that allows user to delete multiple OSDs from a single Ceph node at the same time. [ QSTOR-6402 ]

Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue that would cause the software adapter to login to all available targets on system boot, regardless of the previous target login / logout state before shutdown. [ QSTOR-7856 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added support for Custom Static Routes per physical network interface via the Create Static Route dialog and qs static-route-create CLI command. [ QSTOR-7145 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Fixed an issue with qs share-create CLI command where the --public=true flag was not setting the public smb flag. [ QSTOR-7868 ]

SCSI / NVMe Target

  • Fixes an issue with the iSCSI Target Portal configuration introduced in the 5.9.0 release where disabled iSCSI target settings on network interfaces would still be enabled on first system boot or when assigning new volumes to hosts. [ QSTOR-7892 ]
  • Fixed the task text when creating a NVME initiator or NVME host using a nqn. [ QSTOR-7846 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix an issue where the Ceph Pool Modify dialog was not posting a call to the service due to an invalid local validation check. [ QSTOR-7888 ]
  • Fixed the read only fields of various dialogs. [ QSTOR-7879 ]

v5.9.0.224 (April 12th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.9.0.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed: Adds ability to delete a ceph bucket using the qs cli by specifying either the name or the id of the bucket to be deleted. [ QSTOR-7849 ]
  • Added additional task detail changes for the stages performed by the Ceph Cluster Delete Task. [ QSTOR-7839 ]
  • Changed auto configure multipathing to stay enabled on each node when Ceph Clusters are created. [ QSTOR-7829 ]
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Ceph Cluster Delete of a complete cluster (including buckets rbds etc) to fail to properly cleanup all OSDs, pools and child objects on larger configurations. [ QSTOR-7828 ]
  • Added 'k' and 'm' param support to the qs ceph-filesystem-create CLI command for erasure support. [ QSTOR-7823 ]
  • Added subjectAltName to Ceph Rados Gateway pem file for secure HTTPS connection via clients. [ QSTOR-7802 ]
  • Fixed issues with creating multiple radosgw at the same time on the same ceph node. [ QSTOR-7802 ]
  • Fixed various small issues with S3 radosGW add and remove. [ QSTOR-7802 ]
  • Added logic to auto-repair cephfs mount points in the event of node power loss and recovery. [ QSTOR-7779 ]
  • Added logic to automatically create 5 monitors on Ceph cluster create when 5 or more nodes are selected. [ QSTOR-7766 ]
  • Fixed an issue associated with creating a ceph cluster with '-' in the name [ QSTOR-7755 ]
  • Added logic to auto-disable i/o fencing on systems when a ceph cluster is created. Note: fencing will not be auto-disabled if the system also contains a ZFS storage Pool. [ QSTOR-7751 ]
  • Added management of iofencing policy to storage systems. You can modify the storage system and enable or disable iofencing explicitly. [ QSTOR-7751 ]
  • Fixed: Improve the qs-ceph cleanup script which can be used after the teardown of a Ceph Cluster to scrub the existing system of any residual Ceph configuration settings. [ QSTOR-7715 ]
  • Fixed an issue where encrypted Ceph Clusters were not showing encryption as enabled on Ceph Block, File or Object Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-7711 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the Ceph Multi-OSD auto config on all VM setups. [ QSTOR-7689 ]
  • Increase the size options for Ceph Auto-create Meta-data Offload (MDB) devices in the Multi-OSD Create Dialog. [ QSTOR-7683 ]
  • Added support for creating OSDs on multi-path devices. [ QSTOR-7663 ]
  • Added a minor clarification in the create S3 Bucket dialog regarding object locking. [ QSTOR-7631 ]
  • Added support for nfs-ganesha for scale-out cephFS shares and object storage buckets. [ QSTOR-7583 ]
  • Added Ceph Block and File pools to the report schedules. [ QSTOR-7543 ]
  • Enhanced the Ceph RGW create to allow for more configuration options, such as, 'civetweb' or 'beast', 'http' or 'https', and redirect support. [ QSTOR-7510 ]
  • Added logic to set bucket sharding during bucket create to keep performance stable for large buckets with 1M to 1B objects. [ QSTOR-7490 ]

Disk Management

  • Added logic for multiple Namespaces on NVMe device to ensure NVMe device scsiId field is unique or uses the eui identifier. [ QSTOR-7789 ]
  • Added NVMe eui naming convention for disk discovery to ensure unique device names when namespaces are configured on a NVMe device. [ QSTOR-7738 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the multipath configurator appending spaces on multipath config entries. [ QSTOR-7682 ]
  • Added: Show the lastShredTimeStamp column in the Physical Disk format dialog. [ QSTOR-7678 ]
  • Added a new option to disable IO fencing via the Storage System Modify dialog, so the QS service can block IO fencing operations on systems like the Ceph nvme OpenFlex configurations that don't support it. [ QSTOR-7671 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with removing a iSCSI software adapter on QuantaStor that lead to other iSCSI software adapters on the same system being logged out of their targets. [ QSTOR-7811 ]
  • Fixed: Verify IP is accessible before attempting NVMe target discovery on a Software Adapter. [ QSTOR-7773 ]
  • Fixed: Show the correct number of slots in the WD Ultrastar Data102 enclosure graph. [ QSTOR-7749 ]
  • Fixed enclosure mapping for SuperChassis 946SE2C-R1K66JBOD. [ QSTOR-7719 ]
  • Added Data port IP configuration for Western Digital Openflex Data24 External Enclosures. [ QSTOR-7705 ]
  • Updated the Broadcom LSI storcli utility. [ QSTOR-7667 ]
  • Fixed an issue with 9400 and 9500 series HBAs reporting an incorrect enclosure SAS Address. [ QSTOR-7667 ]
  • Added enclosure support for WD Serv60+8 systems. [ QSTOR-7659 ]
  • Added temperature sensors and Power supply error detection for WD Serv60+8 [ QSTOR-7659 ]
  • Fixed a rare issue that could reset a Hardware Enclosures Make and Model mapping on reboot. [ QSTOR-7636 ]
  • Added support for External Enclosures [ QSTOR-7440 ]
  • Added support for the WD OpenFlex Data24 [ QSTOR-7440 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed some corner cases where the force flag was not working when removing site clusters. [ QSTOR-7798 ]
  • Fixed a minor context menu issue for High Availability Interface Delete. [ QSTOR-7796 ]
  • Added support for NVMe 1.3 iofencing standard. [ QSTOR-7696 ]
  • Added optional fully qualified name for High Availability Interface and Site Virtual Interface. [ QSTOR-7654 ]
  • Fixed an issue with iofencing NVMe devices with namespaces. [ QSTOR-7645 ]
  • Fixed an issue with auto naming. [ QSTOR-7587 ]
  • Added context menu for High Availability Failover Group Create. [ QSTOR-7553 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Fixed the cli "qs cloud-container-create" command to use the default cloud container cache. [ QSTOR-7752 ]
  • Fixed a minor issue in the layout of the create Network Share advanced tab. [ QSTOR-7581 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with the link speed showing correctly on bonded ports and vlan ports on bonded ports. [ QSTOR-7797 ]
  • Fixed: Do not change the center content view when a network port is selected in the center grid where the active tree context is the grid object in the Storage System tree (the root tree node). This reduces grid flickering during context switching. [ QSTOR-7742 ]
  • Fixed: Manual configuration of existing static IP via underlying ip tools or system config file changes will now result in a WARNING state for network ports. [ QSTOR-7622 ]

Network Shares

  • Added the ability to disable fsids in network shares. [ QSTOR-7799 ]
  • Added the ability to use an existing directory as a subshare path. [ QSTOR-7714 ]
  • Added logic to allow creation of sub shares from existing directories in a Network Share. Sub share directory can have a space in the directory name. [ QSTOR-7697 ]
  • Enhanced the AD Join to support custom idmap uid and gid range settings. [ QSTOR-7656 ]
  • Added support for kerberos with NFSv3 [ QSTOR-7650 ]
  • Fixed the view mount command to update when the share selection is changed. [ QSTOR-7630 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Added more EC profile options when creating Ceph pool profiles from the QS CLI. [ QSTOR-7820 ]
  • Added the --shred-keys option to the qs CLI destroy-pool command. [ QSTOR-7820 ]
  • Added UI support for importing password protected encrypted storage pools. [ QSTOR-7358 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed: Minor replication report summary state update when a replication schedule skips a share/volume replication when there is nothing to replicate. [ QSTOR-7342 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Backup Policy outbound mode and the selected Network Share is a Cloud Container. [ QSTOR-7307 ]
  • Fixed deletion of replica associations when the replication links are deleted/missing. [ QSTOR-6653 ]

SCSI Target

  • Added NVMEoF TCP and RDMA Target support for presenting Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-7597 ]

SNMP

  • Update SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-7761 ]
  • Fixed: Counter64 values reported by the SNMP agent are now changed to string for accuracy. [ QSTOR-7712 ]

Security

  • QuantaStor now utilizes the OSNEXUS Crypto Library, which will provide improved key encryption and authentication security. The process for acquiring the FIPS 140-2 Certification is complete and pending approval for finalized certificate.
  • Implemented 'FIPS mode' in accordance with to the FIPS140-2 certification requirements.
  • Improved User password authentication security.
  • Improved key generation algorithms that utilize SP800-90A DRBG.
  • FIPS compliant key encryption for protecting data encryption keys.
  • Code refactor to utilize the OSNEXUS Crypto Library for encryption, random-data generation, and hashing alorithms. [ QSTOR-6933 ]

Server Integration

  • Added Support for Gigabyte R182 and S461 server layouts. [ QSTOR-7743 ]

Service Core

  • Please Note: After all QuantaStor grid nodes are upgraded to 5.9, new nodes must be upgraded to 5.9 or newer before being added to a 5.9 or newer grid. This is due to new use of OSNEXUS Crypto Library use which is undergoing FIPS certification. [ QSTOR-7815 ]
  • Fixed: Do not allow the '.' character to be used for Storage System names in the Modify Storage System dialog. [ QSTOR-6568 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed: Improved error handling when zfs pool is busy. [ QSTOR-7668 ]
  • Fixed a display issue in the Grow Storage Pool Dialog showing the wrong set size. [ QSTOR-7625 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed a minor UI bug with assigning volumes to hosts from "Getting Started". [ QSTOR-7592 ]

Web Manager

  • Changed the OSD Grid sort on the Name column from the default string sort to a custom numeric sort based upon the OSD number. [ QSTOR-7841 ]
  • Fixed: The ZFS volume dashboard was appearing when a Ceph volume was selected. Ceph RBD metrics are not supported at this time, so the dashboard is no longer visible. [ QSTOR-7816 ]
  • Changed the Ceph RGW, MDS, and Reverse Proxy icon set. [ QSTOR-7806 ]
  • Fixed: Resolve a minor theme issue on the Paging Grid Toolbars where there was white text on a white background in the current page text box field. Change the Font color to the Slate theme, so it is visible. [ QSTOR-7788 ]
  • Added a second 'Copy to Clipboard' button to the object property views to grab a single long string like an NQN, IQN, or Object GUID. This is in addition to the already built-in Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V functionality on a selected single line to make it more intuitive to the user. [ QSTOR-7785 ]
  • Changed all read-only fields in the Port Information FieldSets for all Network Port dialogs to use Labels. [ QSTOR-7771 ]
  • Fixed: Reduce the amount of fields we show in a Storage Pool Information FieldSet. Change the read-only TextBox fields to Labels. [ QSTOR-7765 ]
  • Fixed an issue in the Grid Dashboard where it could potentially report an incorrect Systems with Alerts count. [ QSTOR-7759 ]
  • Fixed: Improve the Supermicro enclosure layout naming conventions and consistency. [ QSTOR-7756 ]
  • Fixed truncation issues for JA found in the Alert Manager and ZFS Optimization dialogs. [ QSTOR-7750 ]
  • Added logic to auto generate unique names in all Create dialogs. [ QSTOR-7746 ]
  • Added the page size setting toolbar to the Volume and Share paging grids. Put these paging grids on 10s heartbeat to reduce the amount of updates due to incoming events. Added a 'Sort All' button to all paging grids that re-loads the store and applies current sort settings. [ QSTOR-7745 ]
  • Added logic to suspend event processing in the UI during a post to remote APIs in all dialogs to ensure prompt replies. This suspension of events occurs when the user Clicks Ok, and resumes when the results from the server are returned. [ QSTOR-7732 ]
  • Added the Cloud Integration feature to the Getting Started wizard. [ QSTOR-7707 ]
  • Fixed a text truncation issue in the Add Software Adapter dialog. [ QSTOR-7685 ]
  • Added a NTP popup warning to the AD Join dialog box. [ QSTOR-7665 ]
  • Fixed minor message change during delete of Storage Volume with active sessions. [ QSTOR-6814 ]

v5.8.5.002 (February 22nd 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.5.

Release Notes

Licensing

  • Fixed an issue with remote license server activations. [ QSTOR-7709 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Updated rclone to 1.54.0. This resolves various issues with Cloud Containers and NFS/SMB support. [ QSTOR-6336 ]

Service Core

  • Updated Tomcat to the latest Security patch release. [ QSTOR-7706 ]

v5.8.4.011 (January 12th 2021)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.4.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with Ceph File System not showing the correct erasure code values in the UI. [ QSTOR-7464 ]

Disk Management

  • Adds support for Multipathing device matches if the disk device name contains a '/' [ QSTOR-7641 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added support for Supermicro 946ED 90 bay JBODs [ QSTOR-7642 ]
  • Fixed an issue with enclosure ID generation connected to LSI 9400 controllers. [ QSTOR-7633 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Adds a Warning trace for site VIF creation that instructs the user to resolve bond health warnings. [ QSTOR-7637 ]
  • Fixes an issue with creating Site VIF's on the first node in the Site Cluster. [ QSTOR-7637 ]

Service Core

  • Fix a potential seg fault when scanning for shares in the backup policy dialog. [ QSTOR-7640 ]

v5.8.3.001 (December 17th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added a check to prevent adding a second cephfs configuration to a ceph cluster where one already exists. [ QSTOR-7628 ]


Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Removed Gluster from QuantaStor Xenial Platform ISO. [ QSTOR-7629 ]

v5.8.2.007 (December 11th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.2.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Changed the Ceph S3 zone metadata pools to use replica = 3 by default when creating a S3 Zone. [ QSTOR-7615 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added the Enclosure layout for Dell R720 LFF servers. [ QSTOR-7448 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed a bug with canceling backup policy jobs. [ QSTOR-7607 ]
  • Fixed: Cancelled backup jobs are now retained and the status reflects that the job was cancelled. [ QSTOR-7607 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed a rare issue that could cause a service crash when discovering a ZFS Pool in a degraded state. [ QSTOR-7619 ]

Web Manager

  • Revised the Physical Disk Copy dialog to filter out PhysicalDisk that are in-use as a possible selected target. [ QSTOR-7613 ]

v5.8.1.016 (December 9th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added an additional check that a domain suffix is set when creating a ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-7605 ]
  • Fixed an issue where UUID was shown instead of name for some objects in the Data Devices/OSDs grid tab. [ QSTOR-7605 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Show the Ceph Pool dashboard for CephFS and S3 Zones. This includes *.rgw.buckets.index and the *.rgw.buckets.data for S3 support as well as *_data and *_metadata pools for CephFS. Pools must be viewed in the Ceph Pool menu area for S3 and CephFS. [ QSTOR-7606 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for disk / storage volume copy to cloud container. [ QSTOR-7599 ]
  • Added the ssdLifeLeft property to the WebUI. If an ssd supports this property it will appear in the properties view as well as in the ssdLifeLeft column(hidden by default) in the central Grid view for the Physical Disk Section. [ QSTOR-7595 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Add a name validator to the Add Software Adapter dialog to prevent spaces from being allowed in the name field. [ QSTOR-3105 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Cancel backup job now successfully terminates the backup job. [ QSTOR-7600 ]
  • Add a Force checkbox to the Delete Backup Policy dialog to be used when there are active backup jobs in progress. [ QSTOR-7301 ]

SNMP

  • Fixed some intermittent issues with SNMP walk. [ QSTOR-7436 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Remove the quota configuration field row from the Storage Volume Modify until supported in the remote modify API. Quota management is supported in the Multitenancy area of WUI. Fix truncation issue in the Create Volume from Tier dialog on the Advanced Tab. [ QSTOR-7596 ]
  • Fixed an issue that caused volume used capacity to not update as expected. This fixes a regression introduced in 5.8.0 [ QSTOR-7593 ]

Web Manager

  • Enhance the Create Role and Update Role Permissions dialogs to support column filtering on the Object Type column. This new filtering can be used to reduced the number of items in the grid for targeted changes. [ QSTOR-7604 ]

v5.8.0.195 (November 25th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.8.0.

Release Highlights

Disk Management

  • Major update to the the Physical Disk > Disk Copy feature, which allows raw data copying from a physical disk to another disk, ZFS-based volume or file on a share, or from a ZFS-based volume to a physical disk, volume or share. [ QSTOR-7320 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Adds a new "Auto Repair" feature has been implemented. [ QSTOR-7276 ]

A flag on the Storage System controls the "mode" for the "auto repair" option, either "pool", "osd", or "both".

  • If a ZFS pool loses a disk, and if neither a dedicated spare nor a preexisting global spare is available to repair the disk, and the system's "auto repair" option includes "pool", then whenever a new disk is added to the enclosure that disk is automatically converted to a new global spare, and the pool will subsequently be repaired using that new global spare disk.
  • If a ceph OSD loses its disk, and if the system's "auto repair" option similarly includes "osd", then whenever a new disk is added to the enclosure **in the same enclosure/slot as the failed OSD disk** that disk is automatically converted to a new global spare which is **dedicated to the repair of that specific OSD**, and the OSD will subsequently be repaired by 1) deleting the old OSD and 2) creating a new OSD using the new disk.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Added Report Schedules to QuantaStor that allow for emailed reports on a specific schedule of Storage System Health and Storage Pool Usage. [ QSTOR-7385 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added: Create journal devices now select journal groups in round-robin least used way. This allows even distribution of journals across journal groups. [ QSTOR-7565 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Ceph bucket delete when the rados gateway is unreachable. [ QSTOR-7536 ]
  • Fixed: We have enhanced the 'Create Storage Pool (NAS/CephFS)', 'Create Storage Pool (s3 Zone)', and 'Create EC Profile' dialogs to auto set the Erasure K + M values based upon the Ceph Cluster Member count. [ QSTOR-7533 ]
  • Ceph Object Pool icon updated. [ QSTOR-7505 ]
  • Improved OSD startup logic by adding "ceph-volume lvm activate --all" command to bring osds online. [ QSTOR-7489 ]
  • Add the ability to restart the rados gateway from the UI and QS CLI. [ QSTOR-7473 ]
  • Improved retry logic on administrative bucket delete via the QuantaStor interface when the bucket is not empty. [ QSTOR-7459 ]
  • Added Zone and Zone Group fields to the Create Storage Pool (S3 Zone) dialog. Previously, just the Default settings were supported. [ QSTOR-7435 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the aws command path on Centos platforms. [ QSTOR-7433 ]
  • Fixed: Allows for bucket deletion and creation after the manager node goes offline and a new ceph manager node is elected. [ QSTOR-7339 ]
  • Added: Ceph Journal and OSD creation auto config when all or mostly SSDs are available now correctly chooses the SSDs for OSD and does not select or use journal groups by default. [ QSTOR-7283 ]
  • Fixed a minor issue to better reflect the Ceph Volume utilized space. [ QSTOR-7233 ]
  • Fixed: Devices with storage pools are filtered out of the device list in OSD and journal device creation dialog and journal group create dialog. UI is updated quickly when these operations are performed. [ QSTOR-7231 ]
  • Disabled ZFS specific settings in share create when creating a share on CephFS [ QSTOR-7228 ]
  • Added the ability to specify RBD block size on Bionic. [ QSTOR-7130 ]
  • Add object locking for ceph buckets. Buckets can have object locking enabled in governance or compliance mode. [ QSTOR-6870 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Fixed: reduced update clearing in the dashboards during heavy event conditions. [ QSTOR-7534 ]
  • Fixed an issue in the Controller & Enclosure menu area. When a system is selected, the events are no longer updating the Enclosure Graph, e.g., as LED On for a Disk. Events did work if a Controller or Enclosure was selected in the tree. [ QSTOR-7531 ]
  • Added Physical Disk I/O dashboards for disk drives. The I/O statistics per disk are only enabled for Ceph OSD and Journal devices at this time. [ QSTOR-7139 ]
  • Enhance the Grid Dashboard to Add / Remove System Nodes [ QSTOR-7484 ]
  • Enhance the Grid Dashboard to show more System Tiles by collapsing other regions of the dashboard [ QSTOR-7484 ]

Disk Management

  • Major update to the the Physical Disk > Disk Copy feature, which allows raw data copying from a physical disk to another disk, ZFS-based volume or file on a share, or from a ZFS-based volume to a physical disk, volume or share. [ QSTOR-7320 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed the Enclosure short names to better fit on the Grid Dashboard as well as be more descriptive. [ QSTOR-7559 ]
  • Enabled the Enclosure Diagram for enclosures / JBODs that do not have any disks installed. [ QSTOR-7522 ]
  • Updated various Supermicro Storage Bridge Bay, JBOD and server enclosure layouts and slot mappings. [ QSTOR-7518 ]
  • Fixed issue where complex pools created for redundancy across multiple jbods sometimes reported falsely that their Redundancy Status was "redundancy not verified", even though all the Device Groups (vdevs) correctly reported as fully redundant. [ QSTOR-7466 ]
  • Added NVMe over RDMA and NVMe over TCP support to the Software Adapter. [ QSTOR-7410 ]
  • Fixed an issue with legacy enclosure and controller support. [ QSTOR-7112 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Fixed bug that caused Task to fail when creating an HA interface for an HA group. [ QSTOR-7461 ]
  • Add support for Supermicro 2U24 NVMe cluster in a box system [ QSTOR-7390 ]
  • Fixed: Restarting or rebooting a storage system with an HA storage pool will cause the pool to successfully failover to another node in the cluster without WARNING State or state detail. [ QSTOR-7312 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Fixed an issue with updating userspace cli's associated to zfs and scst target if the driver package is removed and reinstalled. [ QSTOR-7480 ]

Licensing

  • Fixed: Trial license key request web dialog now allow non-ASCII characters (such as European extended characters) in the name/country/etc fields. [ QSTOR-7486 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Updated rclone to 1.53.2 [ QSTOR-7414 ]
  • Add the ability to customize cloud containers cache directory. [ QSTOR-6441 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with network interface discovery and HA failover when manually editing a network interface file on CentOS. [ QSTOR-7539 ]
  • Fixes a bug with the discovery logic for bonded network ports on CentOS. Added some additional logic to set the bonded port into a WARNING state when not configured properly with a state detail on how to fix the issue. [ QSTOR-7513 ]
  • Fixed an issue where configured network interfaces on centos would not start on boot. [ QSTOR-7366 ]

Network Shares

  • Modified: Active Directory join/leave is now moved to the storage system tab. [ QSTOR-7401 ]
  • Added an informational pop-up suggesting adding the Active Directory server's NTP when joining to active directory. [ QSTOR-7310 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Update the QS CLI for Windows [ QSTOR-7569 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Modified: The cloud backup schedule management has been moved to the Schedules menu area under the Storage Management tab. [ QSTOR-7380 ]
  • Fixed: Preserve the advanced settings for replication schedules in the trigger schedule and modify schedule Dialogs. [ QSTOR-7326 ]
  • Fixed bug where volumes and shares on storage systems other than the "start point" node were not being filtered out in the replication schedule dialog. [ QSTOR-7321 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the a Warning status was not cleared from a Replication Schedule properly. [ QSTOR-7319 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB for 5.8 [ QSTOR-7564 ]

Security

  • Fixed bug that was causing user-add task to fail due to password encoding error. [ QSTOR-7351 ]
  • Adds Single User LDAP/AD sign on feature. [ QSTOR-529 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed issue with exported encrypted pools were not having their names preserved [ QSTOR-7529 ]
  • Added the 'setweblogin' command to qs-util to allow users to customize the default username in the web UI Login dialog. Specifying double quotes with no content "" sets no default username. [ QSTOR-7456 ]
  • Add the ability to reset the active directory settings. [ QSTOR-7362 ]
  • Added the ability to schedule pool scrubs. [ QSTOR-7352 ]
  • Fixes bug where creating a site VIF on a node with the lowest IP address value was being used for the site VIF instead of the one selected in the dialog. [ QSTOR-7309 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added logic to prevent adding a pool spare that is smaller than the smallest disk in the pool.

Added logic to prevent adding a pool spare to an encrypted pool that has a passphrase set. The procedure to add a passphrase to an encrypted pool with a passphrase is - 1) remove the passphrase from the pool, 2) add the spare(s) to the pool, then 3) re-add the passphrase to the pool. [ QSTOR-7369 ]

  • Adds a new "Auto Repair" feature has been implemented.

A flag on the Storage System controls the "mode" for the "auto repair" option, either "pool", "osd", or "both".

*  If a ZFS pool loses a disk, and if neither a dedicated spare nor a preexisting global spare is available to repair the disk, and the system's "auto repair" option includes "pool", then whenever a new disk is added to the enclosure that disk is automatically converted to a new global spare, and the pool will subsequently be repaired using that new global spare disk.
*  If a ceph OSD loses its disk, and if the system's "auto repair" option similarly includes "osd", then whenever a new disk is added to the enclosure **in the same enclosure/slot as the failed OSD disk** that disk is automatically converted to a new global spare which is **dedicated to the repair of that specific OSD**, and the OSD will subsequently be repaired by 1) deleting the old OSD and 2) creating a new OSD using the new disk. [ QSTOR-7276 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fix a rounding error in volume create when the selected block size is 64K [ QSTOR-7492 ]
  • Fixed: Block negative values in the QoS controls dialog for Storage Volumes. [ QSTOR-6632 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue with Xenial upgrades from 5.0 QS versions. [ QSTOR-7588 ]
  • Fixed an issue where a Completed Upgrade task would show as Failed after a system reboot or Storage service restart. [ QSTOR-7577 ]
  • Added awscli v2 to xenial and bionic platforms via a qstoraws package. [ QSTOR-7482 ]

Web Manager

  • Automatically change the sub-tab selection when a new tree node is selected for Reports, Ceph, and Hardware / Software Controller / Adapters. [ QSTOR-7557 ]
  • Adds ability to toggle off the "S3 Buckets" Storage Management Section for custom user web interfaces. [ QSTOR-7555 ]
  • Improved the handling of update events for Storage Volumes for a better user experience. [ QSTOR-7530 ]
  • Fixes a bug in the Ceph Pool Profile dialog where you cannot select 2 in the code block slider. [ QSTOR-7476 ]
  • Fixes UI bug in update snapshot schedule dialog where network share selection tab was missing a search bar. [ QSTOR-7463 ]
  • Fixed: reduced the event background processing in the Web UI for Enclosure views when they are not visible and in scope. [ QSTOR-7453 ]
  • Fixed a field set percentage bar minor truncation issue in dialogs that show additional pool information. [ QSTOR-7423 ]
  • Filtering in the storage system dashboard for storage systems and network interfaces based on current context. [ QSTOR-7407 ]
  • Added support for Chinese language characters in Quantastsor description fields [ QSTOR-7370 ]
  • Fixed bug that allowed user to enter passwords for encrypted storage pools without checking the enable encryption checkbox in the UI dialog. [ QSTOR-7357 ]
  • Fixed: If no valid Pools exist on which to create shares, the Create Share dialog will now display a No Pools Exist message and gracefully exit. [ QSTOR-7178 ]
  • Fixed: All dashboards will now have the up or down arrow in the upper right-hand corner for collapsing or expanding. [ QSTOR-7088 ]

v4.7.5.002 (November 25th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v4.7.5.

Release Notes

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixes an issue with distupgrade / platform upgrades from trusty to xenial. [ QSTOR-7576 ]

v5.7.3.021 (October 1st 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.7.3.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue that could create duplicate S3 User Objects in the QuantaStor User Database during periodic Ceph Cluster discovery. [ QSTOR-7418 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Deprecated the Storage Pool Latency Graph, the values were found to not correspond to read or write i/o time and instead provided kstat process runtime and waittime values. [ QSTOR-7416 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated Dell BOSS Card Management raid utility. [ QSTOR-7314 ]
  • Added Hardware Enclosure and Controller management support for the Lenovo 430 series controllers. [ QSTOR-7381 ]
  • Added Hardware Enclosure and Storage System discovery for Dell R640 servers. [ QSTOR-7412 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Enclosure objects that was a regression introduced in 5.7.2 due to a legacy storcli utility. [ QSTOR-7386 ]
  • Updated the storcli64 utility version to 007.1408.0000.0000 [ QSTOR-7363 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Fixed: the apcupsd service is now disabled by default. The apcupsd service was causing irq affinity exhaustion messages to appear in the kernel logs on the bionic platform. For those customers who have APC UPS directly attached to their QuantaStor system, the apcups service can be enabled for use via the 'qs-util apcupsenable' CLI command. [ QSTOR-7395 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Fixed an issue where Storage Volume Snapshot objects would sometimes remain and flagged with a missing state when the underlying ZFS snapshot data was no longer present. [ QSTOR-7388 ]
  • Fixed an issue with remote replication using the correct Storage System link when a local-to-local replication link is also present. [ QSTOR-7420 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Remote Replication of Storage Volumes where the volume names did not contain _chkpnt. [ QSTOR-7408 ]

v5.7.2.006 (August 21st 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.7.2.

Release Notes

Network Interfaces

  • Fixed an issue with Creating and Deleting VLAN and VIF interfaces on Redhat based platforms. [ QSTOR-7359 ]
  • Fixed an issue with deleting bonded ports on Redhat platforms when the child physical interfaces did not have a cable link. [ QSTOR-7356 ]
  • Fixed an issue with creating LACP Bonded ports on Redhat based platforms. [ QSTOR-7355 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Creating Bonded interfaces on Bionic and Xenial platforms. [ QSTOR-7354 ]
  • Fixed a few issues with network interface modify, create and delete for VIF and VLAN interfaces. [ QSTOR-7234 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with updating the mount point after renaming a share that was used as a _chkpnt for replication. [ QSTOR-7340 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed: added a more permanent mask to the NetworkManager service in the qs_centos_upgrade.sh script used for deploying QuantaStor on CentOS 7.8 [ QSTOR-7364 ]

v5.7.1.138 (August 10th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.7.1.

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 ]
  • Fix an issue where ceph buckets can sometimes disappear when the ceph master node is offline. Workaround was to rescan the buckets. [ QSTOR-7331 ]
  • 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

  • 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 ]
  • Add the ability to rename shares even when snapshots are present. [ QSTOR-7313 ]
  • 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

  • Add the ability to create replication from an existing snapshot for a network share or a volume. Useful when share/volume is replicated to two different systems. [ QSTOR-7308 ]
  • 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 ]

v5.6.2.097 (June 23rd 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.6.2.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Updated IPMI sensors to support Intel branded Server solutions. [ QSTOR-7181 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed a error that can occur when rapidly deleting multiple OSD's at once. [ QSTOR-7157 ]
  • Fixed an issue where RBDs were not mapped to the host after a reboot. [ QSTOR-7152 ]
  • Fix issue with node add to ceph cluster. [ QSTOR-7148 ]
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect size reported for Ceph Storage pools. [ QSTOR-7122 ]
  • Added info and alerts for when OSDs are in nearfull, backfillfull or full Status. [ QSTOR-7122 ]
  • Added the ability to manually start selected OSDs for diagnostics or in the event they do not automatically start. [ QSTOR-7080 ]
  • Allow deletion of RBD snapshot missing from ceph to be deleted from Quantastor. [ QSTOR-6597 ]
  • Added properties "Total Available", "Total Size" and "Total Used" to the ceph cluster properties page. [ QSTOR-2730 ]

Gluster Scale-out File (Deprecated)

  • GlusterFS management and deployment has been removed from QuantaStor. All scale-out file and NAS deployment will be supported via Scale-Out CephFS going forward. [ QSTOR-7090 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Updated Enclosure Layouts to cover more Hardware Models [ QSTOR-7171 ]
  • The Enclosure Layout config file is now located under /opt/osnexus/quantastor/conf/qs\_enclosure\_layout.conf [ QSTOR-7171 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added a slider control to the Modify HA Failover Group dialog for controlling the pool ExportTimeout setting. [ QSTOR-6880 ]

Network Shares

  • Moved the samba acl\_xattr:ignoresystemacls from the Windows Extended ACLs option to a new 'Ignore System ACLs' option in the create and modify share dialogs. Ignore System ACLs should only be used for pure Windows SMB clients. [ QSTOR-7182 ]
  • Added protections to block modification of share permissions for cloud container shares as this is not supported. [ QSTOR-7147 ]
  • Fixed a truncation issue in the Network Share dialogs where the Quota Size Units could be cropped. [ QSTOR-6627 ]
  • Fixed the behavior of the Select All and Deselect all button on the User and File Mask tabs. The Deselect All option only appears when all checkboxes are checked. [ QSTOR-6627 ]
  • Validate the Quota Size value when the user clicks the Ok button to ensure that there are no invalid characters. [ QSTOR-6627 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • Update QS CLI for Windows. [ QSTOR-7129 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB for 5.6.2 [ QSTOR-7166 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Fixed an issue with mdadm management of Ceph Journal groups that use the new LVM RAID1 mirroring for ceph Journals. [ QSTOR-7159 ]
  • Added an Enclosure view panel to the Storage Pool section of the WebUI for ZFS Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-7110 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue where the Upgrade task for Core Service upgrades would report as failed when it actually succeeded. [ QSTOR-7180 ]

Web Manager

  • Fix a minor issue with the WEB UI not handling the quota size with upper case size units e.g. (GB / GIB). [ QSTOR-7172 ]
  • Add Ceph Data and Coding Block Numeric Field Slider support to the Create Zone Dialog [ QSTOR-7086 ]

v5.6.1.023 (June 5th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.6.1.

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Fixed an issue with the ceph cluster discovery after a reboot of multiple ndes. This fixes a regression introduced in 5.6.0. [ QSTOR-7093 ]
  • Fixed the size reporting for the Ceph Journal/Wal DB size create in the task detail. [ QSTOR-7091 ]
  • Added support for mixed SSD sizes for Ceph Journal creation when the Create OSD Advanced option 'Allow Mixed size pairing of SSD' is checked. Note that the smallest of the two SSD's will be used as the capacity limit for the resulting mirrored Journal Group. [ QSTOR-7048 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the Ceph OSD create when using an odd number of SSDs and the Mirror Journal checkbox is checked. Now there is an error dialog that appears before any actions are performed at the task level. [ QSTOR-7042 ]
  • Fixes RBD information collection logic to limit the use of 'rbd du' due to slow collection of used capacity [ QSTOR-7118 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed the MegaRAID based HPE SmartArrayControllers to work with the storcli utility. [ QSTOR-7089 ]
  • Fixed an issue with MegaRAID basec controllers being filtered for certain OEMs (Dell, HPE, Lenovo) [ QSTOR-7089 ]
  • Added auto disk blink management for Disks such as SATA that do not have a SAS address. [ QSTOR-7069 ]
  • 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 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Added a check for remote replication to provide a clear error detail if the destination does not have enough space to receive the replication delta.[ QSTOR-7103 ]

Service Core

  • Fixed an issue with service startup where a Redhat platform specific check was being triggered on Ubuntu. [ QSTOR-7098 ]
  • Fixed an issue with upgrades from the 4.15.0-36-generic kernel. [ QSTOR-7092 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed an issue where upgrades from the QuantaStor Upgrade Manager UI could be blocked. [ QSTOR-7094 ]
  • Resolved an issue where the task progress would not transition to 100% after an upgrade task completes. [ QSTOR-7094 ]
  • Updated QuantaStor versioning to include a reference hash that allows OSNEXUS support and engineering to more quickly and accurately know the features, changes or fixes a customer may have deployed compared to any more modern available release. [ QSTOR-6838 ]

v5.6.0.187 (May 13th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.6.0.

Release Notes

Alerts and Configuration Analysis

  • Adds 'External Host (FQDN)' option for customizing the system URL in call-home alerts [ QSTOR-6751 ]
  • New CLI command 'alert-clear' where you can clear an alert or a set of alerts based on a filter string. [ QSTOR-6863 ]

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Added a scaling factor control for future planing of Placement Group growth when creating Ceph Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-6890 ]
  • Added additional Ceph cluster health detection and set appropriate Ceph Object state to match. [ QSTOR-6929 ]
  • Added an Icon indicator the Ceph Cluster Master for the Tree and Grid views in the Scale-Out Storage section of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6858 ]
  • Added an Identifying Icon to the Ceph Cluster Master and Grid Master node in the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6836 ]
  • Added detection for OSD disk failure and /or physical removal and now mark the OSD object as missing and raise a corresponding informative alert.
  • Added OSD auto-repair and OSD service restart if a OSD disk is removed and reinserted or has temporary connectivity issues. [ QSTOR-6831 ]
  • Added Enclosure view layouts to Ceph Cluster OSD section. [ QSTOR-6778 ]
  • Added the Ceph Dashboard to the OSD and Journal section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-6885 ]
  • Changes Ceph Journal creation to prefer LVM based RAID1 mirror by default for DB/Wal device creation. DB and Wal is provisioned based on OSD creation and user specified DB/Wal size. This replaces the previous pre-defined set number of partitions at Journal create time. [ QSTOR-6781 ]
  • SSD based OSDs by default have DB/Wal on the same disk as the OSD data, but can be forced to use external Wal/SSD devices (such as Intel Optane PMEM or other fast memory technology) with the new 'Force use of external Journal Devices even with SSD based OSDs' option in the Advanced settings tab of the 'Multi-OSD and Journal Create' dialog. [ QSTOR-6781 ]
  • Ensures that by default SSD disks selected for Ceph OSD's will store the Journal(DB and/or)Wal) on the SSD. [ QSTOR-5758 ]
  • Adds 'Force use of External Journal Devices for SSD's' option to the Advanced Tab for OSD Creation. This allows users to specify External Journal Devices such as PMEM or other fast high performance persistent Memory technologies for SSD based OSD's. [ QSTOR-5758 ]
  • Filtered out incompatible options from the the right click context menus for Ceph Storage Pools. [ QSTOR-6881 ]
  • Fixed an issue where OSD creation would fail to format the disks when the format disks option was chosen. [ QSTOR-6903 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the Storage Volume Block Size for Ceph RBDs was reported incorrectly. [ QSTOR-6919 ]
  • Fixed: Manually starting a Pool Rescan on a CephFS pool will correctly force an update of the Physical Used capacity [ QSTOR-6183 ]
  • Fixed: New Ceph clusters will correctly show a Normal/Intializing state when No OSD's have been created. [ QSTOR-6936 ]
  • Moved S3 Buckets from the Ceph menu system to Storage Management just beneath Storage Pools
  • Moved S3 Users from the Ceph menu system to Users and Groups menu system. [ QSTOR-6876 ]
  • Moved OSD's to the new OSD's and Journal section of the UI. [ QSTOR-6854 ]
  • Moved the additional settings to a New Advanced tab in the OSD Multi-create dialog. [ QSTOR-6852 ]
  • Updated Ceph API support to Luminous. Removed Legacy Hammer/Jewel API's. [ QSTOR-6859 ]
  • Updated Ceph Pool Profile creation to use Ceph Luminous ruleseset. [ QSTOR-6898 ]
  • Updated Ceph version to Nautilus 14.2.9 [ QSTOR-6819 ]
  • Created a new ceph defaults file which contains defaults for a ceph configuration. [ QSTOR-6832 ]
  • Fixed an issue with Ceph OSDs not being created properly. [ QSTOR-6769 ]
  • Fixed an issue with cephFS creation and deletion. [ QSTOR-6864 ]
  • Remove single OSD Create dialog from the UI. [ QSTOR-6773 ]

Disk Management

  • Added a filter config file 'qs_device_blacklist.con' that can be used to explicitly filter out vendor/model disk devices from QuantaStor device discovery. This filters out the HPE SD CARD reader device that is typically 0Bytes on most systems. [ QSTOR-6954 ]
  • Added further support for SSD life remaining / Wear Leveling statistics from some additional drive models. [ QSTOR-6856 ]
  • Fixed the warning alert for when a Storage Pool physical disk goes missing or is removed from a system while in use by a Storage Pool. [ QSTOR-6986 ]
  • Fixed: Physical Disks that are in use as Ceph Journal are filtered out of the Format Physical Disk dialog. [ QSTOR-6825 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added better enclosure discovery and mapping support for LSI/Avago 9400 Series Cards, [ QSTOR-6464 ]
  • Added Enclosure Views for HPE Apollo 4200 systems [ QSTOR-7072 ]
  • Added HPE Apollo Enclosure and server images to the Storage System information and Enclosure Controller sections of the WebUI. [ QSTOR-6927 ]
  • Adds qs CLI commands for hardware enclosure management. [ QSTOR-6908 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the enclosure slot identify LED would not be cleared when a drive is reinserted back into an enclosure slot and discovered as healthy. [ QSTOR-7025 ]
  • Fixed the disk layout orientation of the Cisco C240 M5 Server in the Enclosure & Controllers section of the Web UI. [ QSTOR-6872 ]
  • Fixed: Added logic to update the Hardware Disk isBlinking property more frequently. [ QSTOR-6791 ]
  • Improved responsiveness of the Broadcom//Avago/LSI RAID card management module by auto-archiving the storcli controller event logs outside of the most recent items. The archived controller event log files are available at /var/log/qs/qs_storcli_cN_events.log and are autorotated to keep up to 5x 10MB in size logfiles for hardware support needs. [ QSTOR-6701 ]
  • Removed hardware adapter support for EOL devices from fusionIO, 3ware and legacy LSI megacli managed controllers. [ QSTOR-5988 ]
  • Updated HPE ssacli to 4.15-6.0 [ QSTOR-6937 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added further checks to the HA Failover Group Create to block creation of HA pools on unsupported SATA+SAS Interposer configurations. [ QSTOR-6707 ]
  • Added further protections to Storage System Modify when renaming the server. This prevents unsupported server names that do not meet DNS FQDN standards. [ QSTOR-6734 ]
  • Fixed an issue where a single Bad or Failing drive in a Storage Pool could cause an Automatic Pool HA Failover to occur. This was a regression introduced in QS 5.5.0. Only a loss of disks that would affect pool availability (such as loss of JBOD connectivity from the active node) will cause the automatic failover trigger. [ QSTOR-6998 ]
  • Fixed an issue with changing the name of a Storage System which is a member of a Site Cluster. [ QSTOR-1733 ]
  • Fixed an issue with launching the SIte Cluster Add Node Dialog soon after the site cluster has been created. [ QSTOR-7000 ]
  • Fixed some minor Web UI items and corner cases with Site Clusters. [ QSTOR-6695 ]
  • Fixed: FC ALUA will be correctly setup on the passive node if the node had previously been the active owner of the pool before it was rebooted. [ QSTOR-7046 ]
  • Changed alerts to more accurately reflect JBOD errors. [ QSTOR-6808 ]

Licensing

  • Fixed an issue where users could not click 'OK' in the Activate via e-mail License manager dialog. [ QSTOR-6759 ]
  • Fixed an issue with adding License keys if the START BLOCK section of the key is not provided y the user. [ QSTOR-6788 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Added Protections to block deletion of the associated network share for a cloud container. [ QSTOR-6602 ]
  • Added S3 Reverse Proxy support for IBM Cloud S3 endpoints. [ QSTOR-6577 ]
  • Fixed: Cloud Container Network Shares are now filtered from the Share Delete Dialog. Removing Cloud Containers should be performed under the Cloud Integration section of the Web Manager. [ QSTOR-6970 ]
  • Updated IBM Cloud S3 endpoints. [ QSTOR-6993 ]
  • Updated the s3 cloud provider locations to match the AWS endpoint documentation. Merging logic for updating the database with the 'qs_cloud_provider.conf' file needed to be fixed. The cloudProvider and cloudProviderLocation tables are now being updated properly on service start-up. [ QSTOR-6964 ]

Network Interfaces

  • Added a server side block to prevent disabling the parent interface when it has VLAN child interfaces. [ QSTOR-6980 ]
  • Fixed an issue where setting a bonded port to offline did would not offline child vlan interfaces. [ QSTOR-7017 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the bonding parent and bond child ports were not set to warning state if a child port is disconnected or connected to a switch port with an incorrect LACP configuration. [ QSTOR-7015 ]

Network Shares

  • Fixed: Added protections for using the special character '@' when creating or modifying Network Share Names. [ QSTOR-6802 ]

Remote Replication, Snapshots and Backup Policies

  • Added Backup Policy reports to the QS CLI with the backup-job-list and backup-job-get commands. [ QSTOR-6943 ]
  • Adds new 'Activate Checkpoint' option to the Remote Replication schedules. This option allows you to quickly rename a usable clone of the destination checkpoint volume or share. Network Shares also receive an Alias matching the original name of the source share. [ QSTOR-6604 ]
  • Fixed an issue in the Create Backup Policy dialog with specifying the Domain for SMB user credentials. [ QSTOR-7045 ]
  • Fixed bug preventing the usage of special characters in the password field for Backup Policies. Added server side validation to the username field to disallow non-smb supported special characters. Added server-side help/error messaging to inform the user to not use unsupported characters. [ QSTOR-4272 ]
  • The SMB username and password are no longer logged for Backup Policies. Instead, authentication data is contained in a temporary .auth file so the password is not presented out to the qs_service.log file. [ QSTOR-4272 ]
  • Fixed some issues with creating a SMB based backup policy from the qs CLI [ QSTOR-6947 ]
  • Fixed the task failure message for deleting snapshots that are managed by a replication schedule. [ QSTOR-4489 ]

Service Core

  • Added the ability to set a specific IP address or FQDN to be used when contacting a remote node. This can be done by echoing/writing the IP Address or FQDN into a file located at '/var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/SYSTEM_ID.gpp' where SYSTEM_ID is the remote nodes Storage System ID. This provides the ability to override the grid communication port if the nodes were disconnected from each other and their IP addresses or hostnames are changed while unable to communicate. [ QSTOR-7012 ]
  • Added a diagnostic status file on each node at '/run/quantastor/gridconnections.status' that shows the current IP address or FQDN in use for grid communication with other nodes in the grid. [ QSTOR-7012 ]
  • Enhanced Network Port discovery logic for instances where admins manually edit or modify the network interfaces configuration at the OS level in /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ [ QSTOR-6742 ]
  • Enhanced the support for using external host names for grid communication and preferred grid port. [ QSTOR-6959 ]
  • Fixed an issue with configuring Network Ports via the qs CLI to use dhcp. [ QSTOR-6974 ]
  • Fixed an issue with unsupported configType's such as "disabled" in the "/etc/network/interfaces" file. [ QSTOR-6833 ]
  • Fixed the logic for custom pool-poststart.sh scripts so that they are executed as expected on system boot. [ QSTOR-6920 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-7051 ]

Storage Pool Management

  • Added: ZFS error counter statistics for read, write and checksum to the Storage Pool, VDEV and Disk objects.
  • Added a new 'Storage Pool Media Errors Detected' alert if there are read, write or checksum errors on a Storage Pool or one of its child objects. [ QSTOR-6440 ]
  • Fixed an alert warning about no global hotspare when a storage pool enters a degraded state even when there is a global or dedicated spare configured. [ QSTOR-6822 ]
  • Updated the HA Storage Pool Failed task failure with a clearer error message [ QSTOR-6821 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Added Storage Volume Profiles for various use cases including server virtualization. [ QSTOR-6731 ]
  • Updated conf file values for various Storage Volume profiles [ QSTOR-7003 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Fixed a few items related to PXE / netboot installs of QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-6940 ]

Web Manager

  • Added 'Copy to Clipboard' to Object Properties views. [ QSTOR-6566 ]
  • Added a check to the Modify HA Group dialog to raise a warning if no HA Groups exist. [ QSTOR-6958 ]
  • Added an Identifier Icon to the Grid Master node. [ QSTOR-6733 ]
  • Added new dialogs for Add and Remove S3 Access Keys in the Users section of the Web UI [ QSTOR-6855 ]
  • Added Russian Localization to the Web Interface. Localization is available by configuring your browser for Russian native or adding '?locale=ru' to the browser URL for QuantaStor. [ QSTOR-6942 ]
  • Added support for multiple S3 Access keys per User for Ceph Object Storage. [ QSTOR-5874 ]
  • Deprecated Swift key creation and management from the Web UI. Swift key options remain available via the qs CLI for legacy use cases. [ QSTOR-6862 ]
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the 'Copy to Clipboard' button of the properties panel to not render correctly. [ QSTOR-6969 ]
  • Fixed an issue that filtered out VLAN interfaces in the Storage System Modify Preferred Grid Port selection. [ QSTOR-6425 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the Erasure coding option was showing for Ceph Block Storage pools. Block Storage Pools should be deployed on Replica configurations. [ QSTOR-6999 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the wrong HA Group may be selected when opening the Deactivate HA Failover Group. [ QSTOR-6576 ]
  • Fixed an issue where VLAN interfaces would not appear in the Grid Preferred Port drop down. [ QSTOR-6956 ]
  • Fixed the colors used to indicate warning state in the central grid view. [ QSTOR-6874 ]

v5.5.4.234 (April 3rd 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.5.4.

Release Notes

High Availability Failover

  • Increased maximum timeout for Storage Pool Export and HA failover to 60 seconds. [ QSTOR-6849 ]
  • Refactored fast pool export used by High Availability for better logging and thread management [ QSTOR-6849 ]


Storage Pool Creation

  • Adds option to customize the ashift setting in Create Storage Pool [ QSTOR-6873 ]
  • Sets the smallest supported 'auto' disk sector size(ashift) to 512B for Storage Pool Creation [ QSTOR-6873 ]


SCSI Target

  • Fixed update events for Host objects to ensure they are directed properly to the storage system that owns the objects. [ QSTOR-6877 ]


Network Shares

  • Fixed an issue with when setting local samba user passwords on non-master nodes. [ QSTOR-6860 ]

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. [ QSTOR-6755 ]


High Availability Failover

  • Fixed an issue where iSCSI portal access could be dropped after Manual HA Failover. [ QSTOR-6850 ]
  • Fixed: iSCSI portal settings will now perist on HA VIFs after failover. [ QSTOR-6850 ]
  • Fixed: HA VIFs now correctly show as 'static' for their config type. [ QSTOR-6850 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-6705 ]

SCSI Target

  • Fixed an issue with iSCSI Portal advertising on Network Ports. [ QSTOR-6850 ]
  • Added a default global iSCSI portal blocking for storage volume access if iSCSI is disabled on all Network Ports. [ QSTOR-6850 ]

v5.5.2.226 (February 18th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.5.2.

Release Notes

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Fixed an issue with remote replication of ZFS Storage Volumes where the replication state would be stuck at Initializing and not perform the replication. This addresses a regression introduced in 5.5.0 [ QSTOR-6810 ]

v5.5.1.224 (February 12th 2020)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.5.1.

Release Notes

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed an issue with Volume Resize that has active sessions where a different volume on the same pool which also has active sessions would report the failure. This fixes a regression only present in 5.5.0.222 [ QSTOR-6790 ]

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 ]

v5.4.3.148 (October 8th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.4.3.

Release Notes

Licensing

  • Fixed an issue with Activating New Licenses. [ QSTOR-6445 ]

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 ]

v5.4.1.138 (August 26th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.4.1.

Release Notes

Disk Management

  • Fixed an issue with iofence device discovery triggering udev and partition rescan events. [ QSTOR-6288 ]

Upgrade Manager

  • Fixed an issue with upgrading from 5.4.0 with the 'Full Upgrade' and 'Allow Auto Reboots' both checked. [ QSTOR-6292 ]

v5.4.0.134 (August 21st 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

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

Release Notes

Ceph Scale-out Block, Object and File

  • Add the ability to manually identify/blink a Ceph OSD from Ceph OSD Identify Dialog in the Web Interface. [ QSTOR-5750 ]
  • Added a warning message for RBD Create if no Ceph Pools are available. [ QSTOR-6129 ]
  • Added filtering to remove Ceph RBD's from the Clone Storage Volume dialog as this is not an available operation. [ QSTOR-6133 ]
  • Added further right click context menu options in the Scale-out Configuration tabs. [ QSTOR-5923 ]
  • Adds APIs and WebUI support for management of S3 buckets to QuantaStor's Ceph based S3 object storage clusters. Users can now directly create, delete, and scan for new buckets within the QuantaStor WebUI without having to use external tools like s3browser or the aws cli. [ QSTOR-6050 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-5569 ]
  • Fixed a few items related to the --client-interface argument for the qs CLI ceph-cluster-create command. [ QSTOR-6158 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the qs CLI ceph-cluster-create encrypted argument was not set to false by default. [ QSTOR-6149 ]
  • Fixed an issue with association of Ceph Pools to Bluestore OSD's. [ QSTOR-6054 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the slider for capacity in the Resize Scale-out Storage Volume Dialog [ QSTOR-6075 ]
  • Fixed: added a check to ensure at least one Ceph Zone exists before allowing users to create S3/SWITFT Object User Access. [ QSTOR-4189 ]
  • Improved WebUI experience by suggesting another dialog when an interim configuration step is skipped. Example, a storage pool must be created before provisioning a storage volume. [ QSTOR-5971 ]
  • Removed Size and Free Space columns in the Central grid view for Ceph Object Storage Pools as this information was not pertinent for object storage use cases. [ QSTOR-6092 ]
  • Fixed an issue with mislabeled buttons in the Getting Started dialog. [ QSTOR-6237 ]

Dashboards and Analytics

  • Added the ability to dismiss alerts from the grid dashboard. [ QSTOR-5226 ]
  • This fixed a localization issue where the dashboard horizontal stacked bar charts were not displaying for non-EN locales. [ QSTOR-6048 ]

Disk Management

  • Fixed a few corner cases with Multi-port NVMe device WERO/WEAR device preempt and re-registration. [ QSTOR-5809 ]
  • Fixed an issue where a Storage Pool Destroy task was not formatting its Disks to free them up for further use. [ QSTOR-6139 ]
  • Fixed qs disk-format now allows use of the disk name as well as the new query filtering for the --disk-list argument. [ QSTOR-6184 ]
  • Improved disk UUID generation for VM instances (VSAs) [ QSTOR-6032 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Fixed an issue with correlation of SATA disks via SAS Enclosure Services. [ QSTOR-5257 ]
  • Fixed, added logic to ensure the disk identify status is always synchronized for hardwared disk and physical disks objects in a high availability config. [ QSTOR-6093 ]
  • Added logic to ensure manual changes to a disk identify/beacon LED is discovered and updated for hardware disk and physical disk objects. [ QSTOR-6093 ]
  • Fixed: rebuild status on LSI Hardware controller RAID units will correctly update to show the rebuild status and percentage remaining for the operation. [ QSTOR-5966 ]
  • Updated HGST NVMe enclosure management utility and integration to dm-cli. [ QSTOR-6086 ]
  • Updated some hardware disk identify/beacon LED logic to be more generic for various controllers. [ QSTOR-6041 ]

High Availability Failover

  • Added additional VIF IP verification checks to ensure duplicate IPs are not used within the storage grid. [ QSTOR-6056 ]
  • Fixed issue with some HA operations doing excessive logging at INFO level. [ QSTOR-6055 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-6116 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-6138 ]
  • Resolved NFS exports cleanup issue on passive node after HA failover. [ QSTOR-5003 ]

Kernel and Drivers

  • Updated kernel to 4.15.0-54-generic. [ QSTOR-6074 ]
  • Kernel upgrade addresses a potential Networking performance impact introduced with the prior 4.15 kernels. [ QSTOR-6074 ]
  • Updated ZFS driver to 0.7.13 [ QSTOR-6074 ]
  • Updated switchtec driver to 1.3 [ QSTOR-6044 ]
  • Updated Mellanox drivers to 4.6-1.0.1 [ QSTOR-6034 ]

NAS Gateway / Cloud Containers

  • Added alert for S3QL cloud container configurations. If you see an alert regarding S3QL when trying to start your cloud container, please contact support for assistance. [ QSTOR-5469 ]
  • Adds Cloud Provider / Container support for Google Drive to make it accessible as a NAS Gateway target. [ QSTOR-5635 ]
  • Fixed an issue with scanning for Buckets within the NAS Gateway Add Cloud Container Dialog. [ QSTOR-5713 ]

Network Shares

  • Added protections for Network Share Create and Delete operations if the target Storage Pool or Network Share is not in a Normal State. [ QSTOR-6170 ]
  • Filtered out Cloud Containers and CephFS Shares from the Create Network Share Namespace and Add/Remove Share from Namespace dialogs. [ QSTOR-6173 ]
  • Fixed an issue with User and Group settings defined in the Create Network Share Dialog. [ QSTOR-6153 ]
  • Fixed the error message in Create Network Share Namespace when no Network Shares Exist. [ QSTOR-6166 ]

Quantastor CLI

  • 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. [ QSTOR-6021 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-4887 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-6022 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-6148 ]
  • Added JSON and CSV output options for the qs CLI. [ QSTOR-6024 ]
  • Added more detailed output to the 'qs share-get' commands. [ QSTOR-2391 ]
  • fixed an issue with passing disks in by name with 'qs pool-grow' [ QSTOR-6033 ]
  • QuantaStor CLI for windows updated to support the new features in v5.4. [ QSTOR-6120 ]
  • Simplified the disk identify commands for hardware disk, physical disk, OSD, and storage pool to require less arguments. [ QSTOR-5331 ]

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Added logic to automatically cleanup metadata for Network Share/Storage Volume clone and remote replication. [ QSTOR-5906 ]
  • Fixed an issue with being unable to scroll in the Replication Report view. [ QSTOR-3349 ]
  • Improved volume and share filtering in Create Replication Schedule dialog to filter out shares/volumes that do not pertain to the selected storage system replication link. [ QSTOR-6154 ]

SCSI Target

  • Updated SCST driver resolves an issue with client connectivity over iSCSI to Ceph RBD's. [ QSTOR-6006 ]
  • Updated SCST SCSI Target driver to 3.4.0 r8435 [ QSTOR-5948 ]
  • Corrected a corner case with SCST Copy Manager LUN management. [ QSTOR-6108 ]

Security

  • Added support for IBM Key Protect as a Keyvault for storage pool encryption. [ QSTOR-5683 ]
  • Improved Create Storage Pool dialog simplifies pool creation and introduces new encryption options including the use of keyvaults [ QSTOR-5683 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-4903 ]
  • Improved secure log scrubbing and API security to protect SMTP email credentials. [ QSTOR-6035 ]

Service Core

  • Added detailed service startup status to the Login dialog of the Web Manager if the QuantaStor Management service is still starting. [ QSTOR-5920 ]
  • Added the ability to merge and split Storage System Grids via the qs command line. [ QSTOR-1063 ]
  • Fixed a few corner cases where DNS settings were not applying as expected for the latest QuantaStor platforms. [ QSTOR-5415 ]
  • Improved Developer and API Documentation on wiki.osnexus.com [ QSTOR-6026 ]
  • Improved internal tools for documenting API's [ QSTOR-6026 ]
  • Improved integration with systemd for various services like NFSD [ QSTOR-6105 ]

SNMP

  • Added additional alerts and SNMP traps around FC port and firewall issue detection. [ QSTOR-6083 ]
  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-6118 ]

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. [ QSTOR-6017 ]
  • Added support for manually exporting and importing Encrypted Storage Pools that have their pool key encrypted with a passphrase. [ QSTOR-6084 ]
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent manually importing a previously manually exported pool that had been created with encryption without a passphrase. [ QSTOR-6182 ]
  • Fixed an issue with importing and starting Storage Pools Encrypted with a passphrase. [ QSTOR-6087 ]
  • Fixed an issue with importing encrypted storage pools on disks that do not support iofencing. [ QSTOR-6066 ]
  • Fixed cleanup of backup disk headers after deleting an encrypted pool and formatting the disks. [ QSTOR-5996 ]
  • Fixed some issues with reusing disks which were used in a previously exported encrypted storage pool. [ QSTOR-4789 ]
  • Fixes issue affecting system boot with encrypted pools when upgrading from trusty to xenial platforms. [ QSTOR-6156 ]
  • Fix some issues with cleaning up keys for ibm keyprotect. [ QSTOR-6209 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Fixed: filtered the Volume Dashboard to show only ZFS Storage Volumes as Ceph Volumes are not currently supported for metrics. [ QSTOR-6196 ]

Upgrade Manager and Installer

  • Added Intel and AMD microcode update packages to the ISO installer. [ QSTOR-4442 ]
  • Added open-vm-tools to ISO installer. [ QSTOR-3162 ]
  • Added support for offline ISO based upgrades from 5.x to the latest 5.x release. [ QSTOR-5958 ]
  • 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. [ QSTOR-5959 ]
  • Fixed a corner case where the Upgrade Manager dialog may not open when accessing the webUi via a FQDN that has subdomains. [ QSTOR-6121 ]
  • Fixed the missing ping utility. [ QSTOR-6040 ]
  • Fixed: the QuantaStor upgrade manager now detects the upgrade path for repoUrl based on the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/osnexus.list [ QSTOR-6095 ]
  • Refactored the Upgrade Manager to allow QuantaStor Core Only upgrades. [ QSTOR-5954 ]

Web Manager

  • Added a 'Dismiss Alerts' option to the View Alerts dialog. [ QSTOR-5763 ]
  • Fixed a few items in the layout of the Multi-OSD Create Dialogs. [ QSTOR-6102 ]
  • Fixed a javascript library TypeError that could appear when loading the QuantaStor WebUI with the Developer Console open on some modern Web Browsers. [ QSTOR-6080 ]
  • Fixed a theming issue with the tabbed scrolling indicators. [ QSTOR-6068 ]
  • Fixed an issue with the End User License Accept Dialog when entering a license key in the License Manager dialog. [ QSTOR-6151 ]
  • Fixed the error message in the Delete Multi-factor Authentication Dialog to provide clearer user guidance. [ QSTOR-6106 ]
  • Fixed up various tooltips in the Create Storage Pool dialog. [ QSTOR-6211 ]
  • Fixed: the Add Grid Management right click context menu correctly opens the Add Grid VIF dialog. [ QSTOR-6060 ]
  • Increased the size of the IQN input field for Add Host and Add Initiator. [ QSTOR-6012 ]
  • Quantstor Grid's are now referred to as "Storage Grid" and not "Management Grid". UI Label changes done to accommodate this. [ QSTOR-6177 ]
  • Reduced the usage of the word Ceph for readability in the right click context menus of the Scale-out Storage Configuration section of the Web Manager. [ QSTOR-6119 ]
  • Removed Ceph Journal and OSD's from the tree view as they are better managed via the central grid view section of the Ceph Cluster OSD and Journal tabs. [ QSTOR-6091 ]
  • Gluster has been deprecated from the WebUI for new installs.
  • Removed XFS pool creation from the WebUI. Legacy support for XFS pools is available via the qs CLI. [ QSTOR-6090 ]
  • Revised QuantaStor Getting Started Guide in the web interface greatly simplifies common tasks and introduces further workflows. [ QSTOR-6122 ]
  • Standardized various Web Manager references from the term 'Appliance' to 'System'. [ QSTOR-6152 ]
  • Updated iconography on various Confirm Dialog's in the WebUI to better guide user interactions. [ QSTOR-6089 ]
  • Updated progress indicator for various dialogs that require searching or backend queries before displaying or refreshing information. [ QSTOR-5714 ]
  • Updated Server images and detection for the Server layout options in the Modify Storage System Dialog and Server view in the Central server information grid of the Web Manager. [ QSTOR-5991 ]
  • Updated the confirmation dialog for format physical disk to have a clear Warning Icon. [ QSTOR-6072 ]
  • Updated the toggle buttons in the Dashboards to have a clearer contrast when enabled versus disabled. [ QSTOR-6113 ]
  • Updates to Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Chinese localization files. [ QSTOR-6235 ]

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 Pool 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 ]

v5.1.2.002 (March 13th 2019)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v5.1.2.

Release Notes

Core Service

  • Fixed an issue with the keep alive process checker restarting the tomcat web server every minute. [ QSTOR-5698 ]

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 minimum 4k disk sector size allocation (ashift=12) for disk set during ZFS pool creation. This ensures that a 512e/4Kn disk purchased in the future when older 512b drives are not easily available will be supported for pool growth as well as repair and replace while maintaining similar performance and long term support of the pool [ 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.

Platform

  • Linux Kernel updated to 4.15.0-36-generic [ QSTOR-5397 ]
  • Enabled support for persistent Linux Network device names. [ QSTOR-5405 ]
  • Updated QuantaStor base platform to Xenial 16.04 [ QSTOR-4874 ]
  • Fixed: the alternate QuantaStor web Port at :8080 now automatically redirects to https and uses the same SSL/TLS ciphers and security settings as the primary https web port at :443 [ QSTOR-5128 ]
  • Fixed: the Dashboards are now supported and display as expected on the alternate QuantaStor web port :8080 [ QSTOR-5128 ]

Ceph

  • Added crush map rule creation for application to an existing ceph pool via ceph pool modify. [ QSTOR-5464 ]
  • Added properties to the Rados Gateway objects for S3/Swift zone name, Ceph Cluster and Storage URL. [ QSTOR-5361 ]
  • Add the ability to create Ceph WAL devices and OSDs using the new bluestore/xenial support via the UI. [ QSTOR-5185 ]
  • Added the ability to create Ceph OSD's on SSD or NVME without needing a separate WAL/Journal device. [ QSTOR-4884 ]
  • Add support for encrypted OSDs in Ceph clusters. [ QSTOR-4666 ]
  • Fix OSD create to leave the isMounted field of the underlying physical disk as false. [ QSTOR-5305 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the ceph.conf file was not being updated properly. [ QSTOR-4996 ]
  • Fixed an issue where the provisionableId and osdType fields were being set incorrectly for some OSDs on Xenial platform. [ QSTOR-5224 ]
  • Fixed an issue where lvm devices associated with OSDs were not being filtered out of disk discovery. [ QSTOR-5196 ]
  • Fixed an issue where recreating Ceph OSDs using the same disks on Xenial would fail. [ QSTOR-5160 ]
  • Fixed an issue where physical disks which are being used as OSDs were being filtered out of the physical disk grid view and the cephOsdId fields were not being cleared from memory after ceph cluster tear down. [ QSTOR-5264 ]
  • Enhance Ceph Multi OSD Create dialog to include System Name in the search filter. [ QSTOR-5377 ]

Cloud Containers

  • Add rclone support for cloud containers from various cloud providers. [ QSTOR-5423 ]
  • Updated rclone version to v1.45 [ QSTOR-5442 ]

Configuration Analysis

  • Adds Config Analyzer dialog. [ QSTOR-4213 ]

Disk Management

  • Added support for Encrypting Persistent Memory Devices. [ QSTOR-4328 ]
  • Add ability to create/delete hotspare markers and leave Disk Manager to do all discovery. [ QSTOR-5047 ]
  • Fixed an issue with creating pools using pre-partitioned multipath disk devices. [ QSTOR-5325 ]

Gluster

  • Fixed an issue with removing and recreating Gluster Virtual interfaces. [ QSTOR-5066 ]

Hardware Enclosures and Controllers

  • Added a Missing disk status for drive enclosure slots where a disk is no longer appearing to the SAS HBA. This allows for tracking of disk failures where a drive will no longer respond to discovery/inquiry commands, or if the drive has been physically removed from the chassis (to simulate a failure scenario). Replacing the drive or inserting a new drive into the slot will automatically clear the missing status from the slot. [ QSTOR-5054 ]
  • Added Hardware Controller Management support for Dell BOSS card. [ QSTOR-5017 ]
  • Added: The Remove Hardware Controller Disk Device dialog in the Hardware Enclosures and Controllers section will now remove a disk with a 'Missing' status. [ QSTOR-5477 ]

Storage Pools

  • Improved the RAID type selection of the storage pool auto-configure feature. [ QSTOR-5317 ]
  • Enhance XFS Pool Create on Xenial to check for OSD associated dm device arrival. [ QSTOR-4993 ]

Storage Volumes

  • Added new qs volume-snapshot-revert CLI command to allow reverting a snapshot back to the original state it was in when it was first snapshotted. [ QSTOR-5438 ]
  • Adds NAA id support to Storage Volumes on new QuantaStor deployments. Systems upgraded from the Trusty platform will continue to operate in the legacy mode. [ QSTOR-5408 ]
  • Added cli options for setting sync and compression type to the qs volume-create command. [ QSTOR-5449 ]

Network Shares

  • Added the ability to customize the NFS root share folder from '/export' to a custom root share path (such as /shares) specified via the /etc/export.root file. Note: this customization would affect the base path for NFS mounting for all Network shares. This is not supported for HA configurations at this time. [ QSTOR-5459 ]

Web Manager

  • Added a column for the current MTU to the Network Port grid view in the WebUI [ QSTOR-5283 ]
  • Updated the Storage System Modify dialog to be more compact with tab specific sections for DNS, NTP and networking settings. [ QSTOR-5277 ]
  • Added an option in the Storage System Modify Dialog to convert ethernet device names from consistent network device naming to legacy ethX convention. [ QSTOR-5277 ]
  • Added System Name and Resource to the Config Analysis view. [ QSTOR-5479 ]

Core Service

  • Added additional logic to ensure a Bonded ports ethernet slaves are brought up correctly when a port is onlined. [ QSTOR-5168 ]

SNMP

  • Updated SNMP MIB [ QSTOR-5487 ]

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