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Revision as of 16:43, 16 October 2015

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 have four (4) parts to them. A major number (M), minor number (N), maintenance update number (U) and build number (B) of the form M.N.U.B such as 3.13.2.6490. 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 v3.11 you will upgrade directly to the latest 3.x version which may be v3.18.

Major Version Number

The major release number rarely increments because it typically represents a upgrade of the underlying Linux distro. QuantaStor v3 is built on top of Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 and QuantaStor v4 will be built on top of Ubuntu Server 14.04.

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" so that you can find an appropriate maintenance window in which to apply the upgrade. In general, reboots are only required when the qstortarget package has been upgraded. So 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 3.13.1 or 3.13.2 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.

Build Number

The build number can be largely ignored, it simply increments with each commit that is made to the source tree.

v3.16.0.9088 (October 14th 2015) REBOOT REQUIRED

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.16.0.

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

Release Notes

  • Adds kernel upgrade to the Linux 3.19 kernel (latest stable LTS release)
  • New Driver releases:
    • Dell PERC and Avago/LSI MegaRAID controllers megaraid_sas 06.807.10.00-rc1
    • Avago/LSI 12GB/s SAS HBA's mpt3sas 04.100.00.00
    • HP SmartArray RAID Controllers hpsa 3.4.10-0
    • Adaptec RAID Controllers aacraid 1.2.1-41024
    • Intel 10GBe Network Adapters ixgbe 4.1.2
    • SolarFlare Network Adapters sfc 4.5.1.1020
    • Mellanox Infiniband Adapters mellanox 3.0-1.0.1
    • Qlogic FC Adapters(supports 16GB Qlogic Gen 5 26xx controllers) qla2x00tgt 3.0.2
  • Driver updates for OS Installer to support 93xx series Avago/LSI HBAs and RAID controllers.

Scale-out Block Storage (Ceph integration)

  • Adds support for active-active scale-out block storage over iSCSI or via native Ceph RBD Client

Plug-ins

  • Adds support Microsoft VSS to enable integration with backup applications

Network

  • Fixes issue with network interface reconfiguration where port restart did not work properly on virtual ports or interfaces containing virtual ports

Cloud NAS Gateway

  • Adds support for Cloud Containers at additional IBM SoftLayer datacenter locations

Scale-out File Storage (Gluster integration)

  • Upgrades to Gluster 3.6.5
  • Adds support for erasure coding
  • Adds smart provisioning support.
  • Adds enhanced monitoring and Web Interface improvements to display brick count, replica count, and brick set number.
  • Adds major improvements to Gluster volume provisioning performance though parallelization of brick provisioning.
    • When provisioning Gluster Volumes where the replica or disperse count does not divide evenly into the number of appliances which the volume spans. For example, with 6 appliances and 12 pools and a disperse count of 5, the number of bricks required to evenly disperse the data is 60 with 5 bricks per brick set. QuantaStor now does this smart provisioning (LCM+round-robin) so that the replication/disperse count no longer needs to evenly divide into the storage pool count.
  • Adds check to ensure that Gluster Volumes are using XFS or ZFS version .6.4.2 or newer.
    • If you're using ZFS with Gluster be sure to do a full upgrade of all packages including the kernel and driver packages which includes the ZFS upgrade to .6.4.2
  • Fixes issue with /etc/hosts updates when IP addresses are changes in Gluster configurations

Active Directory

  • Adds support for RID (Relative ID) mode which auto assigns UID/GIDs to users based on their Windows SID
  • Adds caching of AD user and group list information to support large AD domains with 10K to 100K or more users (see 'qs-util adcachegen' command which creates the persistent AD cache within the appliance)
  • Fix to the join AD domain process to quote passwords which may contain symbols

Gateway Mode

  • Adds support for using QuantaStor as a iSCSI storage gateway appliance in front of other QuantaStor or 3rd party storage appliances like NetApp and EMC systems. Right-click in the Controllers & Enclosures section to add a Software iSCSI Adapter to the appliance which will login to the 3rd party storage system/array.
  • Adds HA support for Gateway mode tested with NetApp E Series storage systems

Security

  • Changes default hash algorithm for encrypted devices from Sha1 to Sha256
  • Fix to stop using DES encryption (too weak) of passwords when new users are created
  • Adds additional checks to verify new user name length (must be less than 31 chars)

Encryption

  • Adds commands to qs-util to make it easy to start encrypted pools even if the key file names don not match the device IDs/serial numbers (cryptopenall, crypttabrepair, etc)
  • Verifies support for AES-NI. Testing shows performance improvement of 7.5x when using Intel AES-NI hardware acceleration vs plain software encryption
  • Adds encryption support for XFS based storage pools which can also be used with Gluster/Ceph

Grid Management

  • Fixes issues with dropped grid connections between nodes during heavy load or when multiple active replication streams are going

Device Management

  • Adds support for NVMe SSD devices
  • Adds enhanced support for hierarchical device discovery (multipath, encryption devices, etc)
  • Improves device discovery and scan speed

Network Shares

  • Improved support for Samba4 (use install-samba4 to upgrade to SMB3)
  • Fixes issue where @GMT based snapshots were not getting cleaned up in rotation schedules
  • Fixes issue where samba service was getting cycled when snapshots were taken
  • Adds support for enabling/disabling NFSv4 browsing

Hardware Modules

  • Fixes Adaptec BBU discovery issue
  • Adds discovery of hardware RAID unit caching mode/policy
  • Adds discovery of disk firmware versions
  • Improves date/time parsing of LSI event logs
  • Adds discovery of predictive error count for RAID controller disk objects

High-Availability

  • Adds detection of JBOD disconnection and triggers automatic pool fail-over

Quality of Service (QoS) Controls

  • Adds support for adjusting QoS controls on Storage Volumes.
  • Adds support for QoS policies which an be applied to Storage Volumes. Policies make it easy to change QoS setting categorically for large groups of Storage Volumes within a QuantaStor appliance or grid of appliances.

Core Service

  • Adds NTP server management to the Storage System Modify dialog
  • Fix to preserve ordering of DNS entries in Storage System Modify dialog

Storage Pool

  • Fixes issue with adding or using hot spares on ZFS pools where the device was not pre-initialized with a GPT partition table.

CLIe

  • Adds --reserved option to volume-modify to adjust reserved space on existing Storage Volumes
  • Adds support for QoS commands and creation of QoS policies which can limit MB/s for reads and writes.
  • Improvements to share-modify and share-client-modify CLI commands.

Logging

  • Adds automatic logging of iSCSI/FC session open/close events into the /var/log/qs_volsession.log file.
  • Internal database backups and TDB backups are now placed in .qsbackups hidden folder in Storage Pools.
  • Fixes audit log rotation to only rotate when it hits 40MB
  • Fixes core service log rotation to only rotate at service start-up when the log file is at least 8K

v3.15.5.8119 (September 17th 2015)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.15.5.

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • Adds additional validation for structure of NFS /etc/exports file, ensuring that all lines are comments or export entries managed by the QuantaStor service. For customers who wish to have their own custom NFS export entries, they can place their entries in a /etc/exports.custom file. The QuantaStor service will automatically append any valid NFS export entries or comments in /etc/export.custom to the bottom of the /etc/exports file.
  • Adds logic to reinforce Share Owner User and Share Owner Group when shares are modified. This corrects a behavior where share default ACL's were not being re-applied on some share modifications.
  • Corrects a behavior on Network Shares where users or groups specified with admin access would not have valid share access preventing them from logging into the share. This corrects behavior that affected 3.14.2 and newer releases.
  • Fix to periodically check for and clean up @GMT snapshots that were lazy deleted.

v3.15.4.8106 (September 14th 2015)

Upgrade Instructions

QuantaStor 3.15.4 was superseded by the QuantaStor 3.15.5 release on September 17th 2015. Please click here for the QuantaStor 3.15.5 release notes and upgrade instructions.

Release Notes

Active Directory

  • Adds support for more complex passwords when joining an Active Directory. For the --ad-password flag on the qs share-join-domain command, passwords should now be wrapped in single quotes(') to ensure the BASH shell does not interpret the string.

Drivers

  • Adds driver to install media to allow OS installation on LSI 12GB/s SAS HBA's.

Hardware Controllers

  • Fix for Adaptec controllers to correctly report Cache Policy and Battery Backup Property.

Network Shares

  • Adds filtering for NFS Network rules to ensure that host and IP NFS export entries are before network or domain rules. This allows for more complicated rules such as read only access for all hosts on a network and read/write access for a specific host on the same network.
  • Enhancements to the CLI for the qs share-modify user access list management, the new system allows for specifying just the username or group name or list option that you would like to add or remove, reducing the number of flags required to be passed in on an individual share modification. 
	[--user-access-list] :: List of users with permission to access the network share for example
	                            'user1:valid,user2:invalid,user3:none,~user7,~user33', prepend with tilde
	                            (~) to remove fields/properties.
	[--group-access-list] :: List of groups with permission to access the network share for example
	                            'group1+DOMAIN:valid,~group2+DOMAIN' prepend with tilde (~) to remove
	                            access for specific users or groups.
	[--cifs-options] :: CIFS/Samba configuration options specified as
	                            'key=value,key2=value2,~key3,...', prepend with tilde (~) to remove
	                            fields/properties.
  • Removed redundant CIFS service restart when snapshots are taken. This resolved a temporary timeout that would occur on CIFS network shares when files where accessed via a stream, for example music or video files.
  • Adds logic to ensure a rename of a Network Share on a ZFS Storage Pool with active clients will raise an alert and be canceled early, not affecting the active client connections.


Storage Volumes

  • Adds support for modifying Thin/Thick provisioning(referenced capacity) for Storage Volumes
  • Adds support for fast coordinated VSS snapshots for upcoming VSS plugin.

Scale-out File Storage

  • Enhanced the Gluster Create High-Availability Virtual Interface Dialog to show member nodes of the Specified Gluster Volume.

Security

  • SHA512 is now the default password hash for local Linux users created via the QuantaStor WebUI and qs CLI.

Remote Replication and Snapshots

  • Fix for key exchange during Storage System Links in scenarios where storage system link was removed and re-created between the same systems.
  • Fix for a behavior where @GMT snapshots would not be deleted. Behavior affected 3.15.2 and 3.15.3 releases.

Web Manager UI

  • Fix to the property window on the right hand side of the Web Manager to ensure it correctly displays properties for the selected object at all times.

Service

  • Adds improvement for grid communication over long distance or heavily congested networks, this feature can be enabled using the below steps: 
 Grid communication Auto Linger enable (for congested/long distance network communication):

   touch /etc/qs_autolinger
   service quantastor restart

v3.15.3.8025 (August 7th 2015) DRIVER UPDATE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.15.3.

Release Notes

Drivers

  • adds latest ZFS v.6.4.2 filesystem drivers, please review the the ZFS changelogs for further detail v0.6.4 v0.6.4.1 v0.6.4.2

Storage Volumes

  • adds udev device management logic to resolve a conflict that can occur for customers who install the lvm2 and/or udisks packages
  • adds automatic checking and correction for Storage Volumes that have missing dev paths

Service

  • fixes issue with User Groups that could prevent the addition or removal of users.

v3.15.2.8009 (July 21st 2015)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.15.2.

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

Release Notes

Network Shares

  • adds support to the Add NFS client access dialog for a comma separated list of IP's, Hostnames or Network definitions. This allows for the batch creation of NFS client access rules.
  • fix for Network Share rename on ZFS Storage Pools so that share export directory is automatically mounted with new name
  • fix to ensure force flag forces removal of Network Shares on ZFS Storage Pools with Active client connections. Default behavior without force flag remains where share removal is aborted if active clients may be connected.

Hardware RAID Integration

  • adds new disk property fields that show media error counters and disk firmware version reported by RAID controller
  • adds new properties for RAID units on LSI RAID controllers thats show consistency status and cache policy settings
  • adds new property for LSI RAID controller capacitor based BBU solution to indicate health status
  • fix for old LSI controller alerts being relayed via alert manager if the system is rebooted
  • fix to correctly show background init progress for new RAID units created on LSI controllers
  • fix for RAID unit creation on newer LSI RAID controllers when setting custom stripe size
  • fix for Mark as Hot Spare to ensure spares are always correctly set.

Cloud Containers:

  • adds latest SoftLayer Object Storage library for Cloud Container provisioning.

Backup Policies

  • adds latest release of pwalk which includes bug fixes and a new --exclude option to exclude specified directories

HA Storage Pools

  • fixed a rare instance that could cause the QuantaStor service to crash when exporting a storage pool during a failover operation

Service

  • fix to allow the addition of multiple Host Initiators to existing Hosts in a multi-node grid configurations

v3.15.1.7960 (June 5th 2015) DRIVER UPDATE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.15.1.

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

Release Notes

Encryption

  • adds support for encrypted hot-spares
  • adds verification logic to require use of software encrypted disks with encrypted pools and similarly non-enc disks with non-enc pools

Remote Replication / DR

  • fixes issue where there was no NFS access to the snapshots of the target checkpoint network shares

Network Shares

  • adds support for configuring the nfs kerberos mode (krb5, krb5i, krb5p) via the Configure NFS Services dialog* fixes issue where /etc/exports was not immediately updated on change from NFSv3 to NFSv4 or vice-versa
  • adds configurable export root for NFSv4 via /etc/qs_nfsv4rootoptions, default is fsid=0,ro
  • adds support to turn off browsing of NFSv4 shares via the /export root via the Configure NFS Services dialog
  • fix to automatically set ZFS shares to posixacl mode when modified

Active Directory

  • adds support for caching AD user and group information which greatly improves support for large AD domains (verified with 30K users and groups)
  • adds support for configuring idmap mode (tdb, rid) via the WebUI using the Configure CIFS Services dialog

Grid Management

  • fixes grid election logic corner cases where all nodes have no primary or multiple primaries are designated

GlusterFS Integration

  • fixes startup order sequencing to support gluster volumes on encrypted pools
  • enables Gluster POSIX ACL support by default, use /etc/qs_gluster_posixmode_disable touch file to disable
  • adds checks which will move files and directories out of the way if they're blocking storage pool or Gluster brick mount points
  • adds improved brick and volume health status checks
  • adds automatic fixup of brick mount points which have blocking content preventing them from mounting
  • fix for Samba support to use POSIX ACLs and block XATTRS

CLI

  • adds qs CLI automatic session management which will successfully and transparently reconnect if the connection is lost while running an API command
  • adds qs-util tab based command completion
  • improves CLI list output detail to include system and pool names with proper sorting

Site Cluster Management

  • adds Gluster HA VIF and Storage Pool HA VIF information and management into the Site Cluster tab section of the Web UI
  • improves and fixes port validation checks when multiple site clusters are created

Hardware RAID Integration

  • fixes support for LSI MegaRAID controller event log processing, no longer raises alerts for events that have already been raised
  • fixes support for DELL PERC based hardware integration

Remote Replication

  • updates storage system link state timestamp periodically to auto-fix link down condition when grid communication is disrupted
  • fixes up hostname information in replica associations and storage system links when appliance hostname changes

Security

  • adds firewall support for disabling access to unused storage services
  • fix to support creation of roles with no permissions
  • fix to support creation of roles where permissions are copied from other Roles using wildcards (*) for object type/operation type

Drivers

  • adds latest ZFS v.6.4.1 filesystem drivers, please review the the ZFS changelogs for further detail v0.6.4 v0.6.4.1
  • adds latest Intel ixgbe v3.23.2.1 driver
  • adds latest HP hpsa v3.4.8-140 RAID controller driver

Networking

  • fixes issue with port bonding enslave so it only does this at system startup
  • fixes issue where duplicate bond ports would show with one online and one offline

HA Storage Pools

  • fixes issue with system shutdown to automatically move HA pool(s) to secondary node
  • adjusts fs.aio-max-nr to support larger configurations using SAS multipathing

Service

  • adds command line argument validation to qs_service
  • adds improved swap device checks so that they're never spammy when utilization load is high
  • fix for swap space check to support configs with no swap devices

Storage Volumes

  • adds support for variable thin provisioning (0-100%) for ZFS based Storage Volumes

SNMP

  • updated MIB

v3.15.0.7762 (May 1st 2015)

Upgrade Instructions

Click here for instructions on upgrading to QuantaStor v3.15.

ISO/DVD/USB Boot Install Image

Change Log

SAN / Storage Volumes

  • adds and updates accessTimeStamp on storage volume objects
  • adds CLI command to allow for updating the createByScheduleId field on storage volumes
  • fix to storage volume assignment by host in large grid configurations
  • fix for user level CHAP credentials multi-node auto-update logic
  • fix to T10 device descriptor format to use pool UUID rather than system UUID. Only applies to newly created storage volumes, existing volumes are unchanged.
  • fix to Storage Volume Utilization entries to show the volume name and date stamp in the 'name' field
  • fix for FC port startup at boot time
  • fix to adding/removing a initiator IQN to/from a host to update ACLs when using host groups
  • fix to allow deleting storage volumes which are a member of a storage volume group

Network Shares / NAS

  • adds user/group ownership control settings to Network Share Create/Modify dialogs
  • adds share r/w/x permissions control to Network Share Modify dialog
  • adds posixUid/posixGui to user objects
  • adds setting to enable POSIX acls by default on ZFS pool create, XFS pools already had posix ACLs enabled by default
  • adds improved support for AD integration and Network Share quota management
  • fix to allow for duplicate share names as long as they're on separate systems
  • fix to auto-repair stale NFS file handles after system/appliance reboot
  • fix for open file handle issue to winbind with services restart logic

Storage Pool Management

  • adds smart hotspare selection to prefer hotspare which is in the same enclosure as the failed device
  • adds smart pool creation which makes multi-enclosure chassis deployments highly-available by round-robin selection of disks across enclosures for all RAID levels
  • adds updates for improved detection and display of SED disks / sets isEncrypted flag.
  • fix to auto start XFS based pool on pool-create

HA Storage Pools & Cluster Heartbeat Management

  • revamped HA system adds Site Cluster, Cluster Ring management, and active cluster monitoring into WUI
  • adds major optimizations for HA failover speed

DR/Remote replication

  • fix for replication checkpoint snapshot rotation where oldest device wasn't being rotated/expired
  • fix to skip expired replicas in cleanup stage if the snapshot has snapshots
  • fix to XFS based replication
  • fix to do license checks before processing or triggering remote replication schedules

Security

  • adds support for customizing the pem files for all services (core qs_service, REST service, and Tomcat)
  • adds support for customizing the SSL ciphers, applies strong cipher limits automatically
  • adds SSL cert generation script which deposits custom certs into /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor/ssl which are automatically picked up by REST and core services
  • adds script command to upgrade from Java 6 to Java 7 (qs-util java7upgrade), which allows browsers to connect via https using stronger ciphers / TLS 1.2
  • fix to disable all use of SSLv3 across all internal services (Core service, Tomcat, REST API service) in favor of TLS for improved security / HIPAA compliance
  • fix to allow removal of duplicate 'admin' users
  • fix to remove duplicate user entries in Samba config when user assigned as 'Admin' on a share
  • fix to password length enforcement (8-34 char)

Cloud Containers / NAS Gateway

  • adds new SoftLayer Object Storage locations for mon,mel,mex,fra,par,syd,tok
  • fix to auto start Cloud Containers at system startup
  • fix to Cloud Container create to setup CIFS/NFS settings and to auto-enable the container when the share is enabled

Web UI

  • fix to improve web UI connection and sync time
  • fix to show nested snapshots of snapshots in WUI
  • fix to obscure CHAP user/pass in web UI
  • adds improvement to daily utilization graph to allow selection of multiple days
  • adds many improvements to Japanese localization ( add '/?locale=ja' to URL )

Hardware

  • adds support for HP P431 and related RAID controllers (except install time boot driver)
  • adds fixes management and monitoring for latest LSI HBAs including IBM OEM variants
  • adds support for latest LSI MegaRAID and related OEM hardware
  • adds support for installing via USB media with new ISO
  • adds enclosure view for Adaptec RAID controllers
  • fix for LSI MegaRAID controller support where duplicate alerts were being generated and old alerts would have incorrect timestamps showing as new alerts
  • fix to remove blank 'Disk ()' entries on virtual LSI MPT SAS controllers presented by VMware & VBox
  • fix to HP P4xx/8xx Series RAID unit creation to pass 'force' option as needed

Certifications

  • adds VMware certification, iSCSI w/ ESX 5.1

SNMP

  • adds SNMP fixes for SNMP v3 traps and adds new SNMP types
  • fix to resolve intermittent issue which was causing the SNMP agent to restart

Networking

  • adds improved ethernet port vendor/model detection, and ports now show as "Disabled" if unconfigured
  • fix to bonded port creation to auto ifenslave ports after creation

GlusterFS

  • adds support for Gluster 3.6, upgrading from 3.5 to 3.6 can be done incrementally node by node without downtime
  • fix for gluster brick add operation also adds checks to prevent bricks from overlaying on existing pools
  • fix for gluster reblance corner case allowing more time for it to start

Alerts Management

  • fix to Alert Manager to allow for setting the SMTP port number
  • fix to Alert Manager SMTP send logic to properly handle STARTTLS

CLI

  • fix to CLI to allow clearing fields with empty argument value "", for example --description=""
  • fix for CLI bug in volume-clone and network-share-snapshot commands
  • fix to CLI so that boolean args default to true (eg. --somearg is equivalent to --somearg=true)
  • fix to CLI to allow specifying network share names starting with '@' symbols

Service

  • adds major optimizations (~8x faster!) for pool scan and device import speed
  • adds major optimizations (~8x faster!) for service startup time
  • adds major optimizations (~10x faster!) for grid synchronization speed and scalability
  • fix to qs_service --reset-password
  • fix to gSOAP library / upgrade to 2.8.17 resolves management service memory leak seen in multi-node configurations
  • fix to increase default max log size to 25MB before auto-rotate

v3.14.1.7090 (January 14th 2015)

  • fix to Create Hardware RAID unit API where task would stay in Queued state (.7090 hot-fix)
  • fix to multi-node NFS config update when Gluster based Network Share NFS client access is changed
  • fix SCST warning in kern.log due to missing dir
  • fix to allow upgrading to 3.14 without making the 3.13 linux kernel upgrade mandatory
  • fix to deletion of custom named network share snapshot cleanup
  • fix to HA manager startup to support configs where grid is torn down
  • fix http redirect for lsiget log generation
  • fix to delete grid where grid IP field is not cleared
  • fix to NFS server config to remove RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--manage-gids option by default
  • adds support for storage volume / network share instant rollback from snapshot
  • fix to rollback network share from remote replica
  • fix to syslog startup in 3.14
  • fix to CLI output when commands are run with --async to show task information
  • fix to CLI share-client-add command to create Network shares in r/w mode by default.
  • fix to CHAP settings update when changed on user account
  • fix HTTP header of QuantaStor Manager to make sure it is validator.w3.org compliant
  • adds support for multiple Network Shares with the same name as long as they're on separate appliances in the grid
  • adds QuantaStor appliance host name to the browser tab title area
  • adds lazy-clone option to Storage Volume snapshot which delays making the snapshot writable until it is assigned
  • adds delayed/lazy-clone as default mode for remote replication snapshots which greatly reduces system CPU, memory, and filesystem load
  • fixes issue with Backup Policies to handle special characters in file names (see pwalk)

QuantaStor 3.14.1 update via Upgrade Manager

Login to the WebUI with an admin account and run the Upgrade Manager, click Check for Updates and Install the below QuantaStor update packages via the Upgrade manager. 

Web Management    3.14.1.7090-1
Core Services    3.14.1.7090-1
Web Server    7.0.7089-1

If you are upgrading from a release older than 3.14.0, you will need to install the iSCSI target Driver and schedule a reboot of the system. 

iSCSI Target Driver     3.14.0.6993-1

QuantaStor 3.14.1 Manual install

The below 2 commands can be run from the console of a QuantaStor appliance to explicitly install the 3.14.1 release on any QuantaStor running a v3 release.

apt-get update
apt-get install -y libpython2.7=2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6 zfsutils libzpool2 libzfs2 lsscsi pv qstormanager=3.14.1.7090-1 qstorservice=3.14.1.7090-1 qstortomcat=7.0.7089-1 qstortarget=3.14.0.6993-1

If you wish to upgrade to the 3.13 linux kernel provided with the QuantaStor 3.14 release, please follow the instructions here.

v3.14.0.6993 (December 30th 2014) KERNEL and DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.14.0.6993.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.14.0.6993.md5
  • adds 3.13 linux kernel and SCST driver stack upgrade
  • adds support for Micron PCIe SSD cards
  • adds universal hot-spare management system for ZFS based pools
  • adds support for FC session management and session iostats collection
  • adds disk search/filtering to Storage Pool Create/Grow dialogs in web interface
  • adds configurable replication schedule start offset to replication schedule create/modify dialogs
  • adds support for cascading replication schedules so that you can replicate volumes across appliances A->B->C->D->etc
  • adds wiki documentation for CopperEgg
  • adds significantly more stats/instruments to Librato Metrics integration
  • adds dual mode FC support where FC ports can now be in Target+Initiator mode
  • adds support for management API connection session management to CLI and REST API interfaces
  • adds storage volume instant rollback dialog to web management interface
  • adds sysstats to send logs report
  • adds swap device utilization monitoring and alerting on high swap utilization
  • adds support for unlimited users / removes user count limit license checks for all license editions
  • adds support for scale-out block storage via Ceph FS/RBDs (pilot program only)
  • deprecated drbd continuos xfs pool replication
  • fix for CLI host-modify command
  • fix for pool discovery reverting IO profile selection back to default at pool start
  • fix for web interface to hide 'Delete Unit' for units used for system/boot
  • fix for alert threshold slider setting in web interface 'Alert Manager' dialog
  • fix for sending email alerts to multiple accounts.
  • fix to accelerate pool start/stop operations for FC based systems
  • fix to disk/pool correlation logic
  • fix to allow IO profiles to have spaces and other special characters in the profile name
  • fix to FC ACL removal
  • fix to storage system link setup to use management network IPs
  • fix to remove replication association dialog to greatly simplify it
  • fix to CLI disk and pool operations to allow referencing disks by short names
  • fix for replication schedule create to fixup and validate storage system links
  • fix for replication schedule delta snapshot cleanup logic which ensures that the last delta between source and target is not removed
  • fix for stop replication to support terminating zfs based replication jobs
  • fix for pool freespace detection and alert management
  • fix license checks to support sum of vol, snap, cloud limits across all grid nodes
  • fix to create gluster volume to use round-robin brick allocation across grid nodes/appliances to ensure brick pairs do not land on the same node
  • fix to storage volume snapshot space utilization calculation
  • fix to iSCSI close session logic for when multiple sessions are created between the same pair of target/initiator IP addresses
  • fix to auto update user specific CHAP settings across all grid nodes when modified
  • fix to allow udev more time to generate block device links, resolves issue exposed during high load with replication
  • fix to IO fencing logic to reduce load and make it work better with udev


QuantaStor 3.14.0 release Linux 3.13 Kernel update instructions.

Kernel update instructions.
Install the latest updates for the below QuantaStor update packages via the Upgrade manager:

Web Management 
Core Services 
Web Server
iSCSI Target Driver

Once the update packages are installed, login to the system console as the qadmin user and run the below script from the console to install the new 3.13 kernel package.

sudo qs-kernelupgrade

Once the script has finished, please reboot the system to boot to the new kernel.

QuantaStor 3.14.0 Manual install

The below 4 commands can be run from the Console of a QuantaStor unit to explicitly install the 3.14.0 release on any QuantaStor running a v3 release.

apt-get update
apt-get install -y libpython2.7=2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6 zfsutils libzpool2 libzfs2 lsscsi pv apparmor rsyslog qstormanager=3.14.0.6993-1 qstorservice=3.14.0.6993-1 qstortomcat=7.0.6452-1 qstortarget=3.14.0.6993-1
mkdir -p /var/lib/scst/vdev_mode_pages
qs-kernelupgrade

QuantaStor 3.14.0 Offline update instructions

The below steps are provided for QuantaStor units that do not have a local update repository or access to public repositories.

Download the below packages and move them locally onto the QuantaStor appliance you wish to update.

wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/linux-headers-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/linux-headers-3.13.0-39_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_all.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/linux-image-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.14.0.6993-1_all.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.14.0.6993-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstortomcat_7.0.6452-1_all.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstortarget-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.14.0.6993-1_amd64.deb

Run the below commands to install the packages from the directory containing the packages.
sudo -i
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.14.0.6993-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.14.0.6993-1_amd64.deb qstortomcat_7.0.6452-1_all.deb qstortarget-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.14.0.6993-1_amd64.deb 
dpkg -i linux-image-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.13.0-39_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_all.deb linux-headers-3.13.0-39-quantastor_3.13.0-39.66~precise1_amd64.deb

v3.13.6.6540 (November 23rd 2014)

sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.13.6.6540-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.13.6.6540-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.13.6.6540-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.13.6.6540-1_amd64.deb


v3.13.5.6537 (November 14th 2014)

v3.13.4.6527 (October 30th 2014)

v3.13.3.6515 (October 21st 2014)

  • adds load balancing to remote replication, use 'qs-util rratelimitset NN' to configure, 50MB/sec is the default limit.
  • adds load balancing to volume cloning, use 'qs-util clratelimitset NN' to configure, 200MB/sec is the default limit.
  • adds additional Storage Volume delete confirmation checks in web management interface to show count of any active iSCSI sessions
  • adds option to offset the start of a replication schedule by NN minutes for staggered replication. With scheduled replication at 1am, 4am, 7am and a 10 minute offset, replication will start at 1:10am, 4:10am and 7:10am respectively. CLI only feature in this update:
    • qs replication-schedule-modify SCHEDULE-NAME --offset-minutes=10
  • fix to Create Remote Replication Schedule dialog to allow adjusting max replicas and sets min replicas to 3.
  • fix to audit logging

v3.13.2.6491 (October 10th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.13.2.6491.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.13.2.6491.md5
  • fix to volume check logic for remote-replication schedules
  • fix to volume batch create and delete operations to allow more time for udev rules to run on slow systems
  • fix to network share enum user/group quotas to API redirect to correct node owner of share
  • fix to SAS disk discovery for Adaptec controllers
  • fix to scheduler for interval based replication schedules which only contain Network Shares
  • fix to read/write TX counters on network ports where in some cases they were not getting updated
  • fix to show MB rather than MiB for read/write TX counters in QuantaStor Manager
  • fix to show a suffix of "(Disconnected)" in WUI to make it clear when a grid node is offline/disconnected
  • adds qs-util CLI enhancement for ZFS meta cache limit configuration. see qs-util setzfsarcmax auto
  • adds qs-util CLI commands for checkswap and clearcache
  • adds qs-iostat CLI enhancement ZFS L2ARC information. see qs-iostat -a
  • adds qs CLI utility commands for replication schedule and replica assoc management
  • adds qs CLI utility command for trigger snapshot schedule
  • adds additional swap and cache stats information to log report
  • updated wiki CLI documentation
  • updates object naming of Storage Cloud to be more aptly named Multitenant Resource Group

v3.13.1.6452 (September 23rd 2014) DRIVER UPGRADE AVAILABLE - REBOOT REQUIRED

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.13.1.6452.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.13.1.6452.md5
  • upgrades ZFS to latest maintenance release v.6.3 (included in qstortarget package and requires reboot)
  • upgrades GlusterFS to latest maintenance release v3.5.2
  • adds hardware encryption support via qs CLI for LSI SafeStore SED/FDE hardware encryption
  • adds software encryption (LUKS based)
  • adds GlusterFS automated peer setup w/ /etc/hosts management
  • adds support for triple parity RAID-Z3 layout for ZFS based storage pools
  • adds new qs-iofence utility, deprecates use of zpoolfence, adds support for multipath HA configurations
  • adds support for SAS multipath device detection and path associations
  • adds improved device naming to use friendly name plus the boot resilient name in parentheses
  • adds LSI SafeStore key management operations to the web management interface
  • adds additional options to qs-iostat
  • fix to remote replication configuration setup where replica-associations/storage-system-links could get dropped during reconfiguration in larger grids
  • fix to SNMP MIB, overhauled MIB design and snmpagent is now compliant to various MIB certification tests
  • fix to storage pool device naming convention to map through the exact device names shown in 'zpool status'
  • fix to gluster peer detach to add 'force' option
  • fix to service port 5151 http GET to return 404 for invalid requests
  • fix to various WUI dialog error messages
  • fix to remove unnecessary spl package dependency
  • fix to filter out partitions from the Physical Disk list
  • fix to log rotation to no longer rotate empty log files
  • fix to block sending email alerts when there are no recipients
  • fix to prevent grid dual primary link condition
  • fix to cloud container import for swift based containers 
sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.13.1.6452-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.13.1.6452-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.13.1.6452-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.13.1.6452-1_amd64.deb

v3.12.3.6111 (July 30th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.12.3.6111.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.12.3.6111.md5
  • fix to DNS lookup issue for Gluster configurations
  • fix to prune large MegaSAS.log file (> 50MB) and to not log MegaCli discovery operations
  • fix to corner case in HPNBufferSize editing of /etc/ssh/sshd_conf for HPN SSH support
  • adds /etc/hosts configuration management via Gluster Peer Setup dialog
  • adds qs CLI commands qs grid-get-hosts, grid-set-hosts for /etc/hosts configuration (qs grid-set-hosts eth0)
  • adds hardware module for LSI MPT SAS HBAs 
sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.12.3.6111-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.12.3.6111-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.12.3.6111-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.12.3.6111-1_amd64.deb

v3.12.2.6084 (July 22nd 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.12.2.6084.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.12.2.6084.md5
  • fix to show gluster brick/volume warning icon if brick/volume is unhealthy
  • fix to add gluster logs into 'Send Logs..' report
  • fix to gluster volume discovery logic and brick free-space updates
  • fix to grid 'set master node' error handling
  • fix to network share attribute updates (compression level, etc)
  • fix to detect HPN version of ssh and to auto configure /etc/ssh/sshd_config accordingly
  • fix to network config management logic which was removing an additional line(s) in /etc/network/interface
  • fix to storage pool free-space and percent provisioned calc
  • fix to BBU discovery for Adaptec controllers
  • fix to network share delete on ZFS pools to not use 'rm' as it is slow and redundant
  • fix to update user password on all grid nodes
  • fix to gluster volume delete logic
  • fix to set password error message to show 8 to 40 characters required
  • fix to delete vlan dialog in web interface
  • fix to schedule manager which was preventing hour/week based schedules from firing
  • adds network event alert throttling
  • fix to grid rename and grid IP address change logic 
sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.12.2.6084-1_all.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.12.2.6084-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.12.2.6084-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.12.2.6084-1_amd64.deb

v3.12.0.6029 (June 27th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.12.0.6029.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.12.0.6029.md5
  • adds support for OpenStack Cinder (see here for more detail )
  • adds support for interval based replication down to 15 minute cycles
  • adds support for data-migration / 3rd party LUN copy to new QuantaStor Storage Volume
  • adds support for user quotas on network shares (AD group quotas not yet available)
  • adds support for storage tiers / tiers are groups of storage pools for which provide smart placement of newly provisioned storage volumes
  • adds redesigned network bond management logic, now allows selection of teaming mode on a per bond basis
  • adds new https keystore for web management interface (be sure to clear your browser cache)
  • adds secure mode 'qs-util disablehttp' to enable/disable http access (port 80) to force admins to use https for web management
  • adds info on posix UID/GID to user properties page
  • adds session management to qs CLI with automatic retry logic to handle broken network pipe conditions, improves scripting/automation
  • adds new password minimum length of 8 characters (was 6)
  • adds acl mount option to gluster client loopback connections for Samba/NFS access
  • adds xattr=sa option for network shares by default, is also enabled with 'Enable MMC Managment' option.
  • adds additional zones to SoftLayer cloud provider location list for Hong Kong and Singapore
  • adds alert filtering via '/etc/qs_alertfilters.conf' file. To filter alerts echo the name of the alert like so:
    • echo "[Service Update]" > /etc/qs_alertfilters.conf
  • adds nightly check for MCE errors (memory check exception) which can indicate bad RAM.
  • adds automatic tdb backup for SMB configuration data
  • fix to gluster volume delete/modify for SMB config synchronization
  • fix for Gluster peer attach to use hostnames whenever possible (/etc/hosts recommended as DNS failback option for name resolution)
  • fix to network share restore operation to remove files that are not in the snapshot and to restore extended attributes
  • fix for remote replication create/modify dialog for grids with 3 or more nodes
  • fix to speed up pool start logic for configurations with many share snapshots
  • fix to network share multi-delete to show more progress detail
  • fix to Cloud Container location code so that you can select a location and create a container from the context menu
  • fix for various network share CLI commands
  • fix invalid trace messages
  • fix for DR support to do additional replication checks
  • fix to core service to allow for changing openssl pem files 
sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.12.0.6029-1_all.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.12.0.6029-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstortomcat_7.0.6029-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.12.0.6029-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.12.0.6029-1_amd64.deb qstortomcat_7.0.6029-1_all.deb

v3.11.0.5877 (May 16th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.11.0.5877.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.11.0.5877.md5
  • adds option to disable ALUA support (needed for VMware HA configurations)
  • adds support for storage tier management. Tiers are groups of storage pools for easy automated provisioning. (currently CLI only)
  • adds alert when HA port failover occurs
  • adds new basic discovery module for mptsas LSI Fusion HBAs
  • adds SAS address info to HW disk properties
  • adds HW controller cache memory size information
  • fix to allow for clearing network port configurations. Do this via the Modify Network Port dialog and set the port to 0.0.0.0 or choose 'disabled'.
  • fix to identify HA virtual interfaces as 'static' rather than 'unknown'
  • fix for Network Share free-space updates / previously was generating too much system load
  • fix to clone operation, adds more progress detail to task status
  • fix for cli command host-group-host-remove and volume-modify
  • fix to recovery management to additionally auto-recover samba configuration
  • fix to rename user to update samba configuration
  • fix to CIFS management Network Share Modify dialog
  • fix to UI to not show empty 1969 timestamps and other unpopulated fields
  • fix to backup policies to backup files with non-ASCII characters in the file name 
sudo -i
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.11.0.5877-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.11.0.5877-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.11.0.5877-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.11.0.5877-1_amd64.deb

v3.10.3.5830 (May 6th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.10.3.5830.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.10.3.5830.md5
  • fix for Network Share used space check (resolves performance / CPU utilization issue)
  • fix to HA device descriptor generation
  • fix to clone operation, adds more progress detail to task status
  • fix for qs-util megalsiget utility
  • adds new driver for mpt3sas LSI SAS3 HBAs 
sudo -i
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.10.3.5830-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.10.3.5830-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.10.3.5830-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.10.3.5830-1_amd64.deb

v3.10.2.5820 (April 25th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.10.2.5820.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.10.2.5820.md5
  • adds support for ALUA on iSCSI for HA
  • adds new CIFS options for extended attributes to Network Share Create/Modify dialogs
  • adds support for additional compression options
  • adds support for LSI mpt2sas based HBA discovery and enclosure services integration
  • adds SNMP support and full MIB
  • adds SNMP commands to qs-util
  • adds support for custom qs_init_share.sh in /var/opt/osnexus/quantastor
  • adds performance test to qs-util
  • adds the SNMP tools and iozone performance tool packages
  • fixes and optimization for HA failover support
  • fix for iSCSI session write/update issue
  • fix for System Monitor role
  • fix for setting bind address / gridIP attachment to non-eth0
  • fix for gluster version check for 3.4
  • fix for SSD storage pool IO profile 
sudo -i
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.10.2.5820-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.10.2.5820-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.10.2.5820-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.10.2.5820-1_amd64.deb

v3.10.0.5751 (April 4th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.10.0.5751.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.10.0.5751.md5
  • adds additional trace for alert logging
  • adds support for GlusterFS 3.4.2
  • adds configurable compression level and sync policy settings to Storage Volume Modify, Network Share Modify, and Storage Pool Modify
  • adds logic to automatically set ZIL cache policy to always when ZIL SSD cache devices are added
  • adds ZFS dataset creation for gluster bricks
  • adds gluster volume auto-start after creation
  • adds grid status monitoring logic to core service via --grid-stat option
  • fixes and optimizations for grid scalability
  • fix for cloud container CIFS access disabled at service startup
  • fix for inaccurate utilized space on container's associated network share
  • fix for inaccurate utilized space on gluster volume's associated network share
  • fix for SoftLayer cloud container creation
  • fix for accessing @GMT snapshots via NFS
  • fix to allow creating storage system links between virtual and VLAN interfaces
  • fix for MTU setting on VLAN ports, MTU of VLANs interfaces must be less than or equal to parent interface
  • fix for gluster delete volume
  • fix for delete/export pool to disconnect associated gluster mounts 
sudo -i
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.10.0.5751-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.10.0.5751-1_all.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/glusterfs-server_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/glusterfs-client_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/glusterfs-common_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.10.0.5751-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.10.0.5751-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i glusterfs-server_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb glusterfs-client_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb glusterfs-common_3.4.2-ubuntu2~precise6_amd64.deb

v3.9.4.5688 (March 14th 2014)

  • hot-fix for host group management, was not managing assignments properly in grid configurations
  • fix for network share management of CIFS settings on Gluster shares
  • fix for low level grid reset logic with /opt/osnexus/quantastor/bin/qs_service --reset-grid
  • fix to set SSD optimized state to true when ZIL/L2ARC is enabled for a pool
  • adds minor web UI enhancements to show compression ratios and quotas in the table view
  • adds more checks to block Community Edition appliances from being added to a grid
  • adds qs CLI commands for marking hardware RAID disks as good, host-spares, and for importing foreign RAID units
  • adds support for mark good API with Adaptec controllers

Upgrade Instructions for systems on Private Networks 

sudo -i
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstorservice_3.9.4.5688-1_amd64.deb
wget http://packages.osnexus.com/packages/precise/main/qstormanager_3.9.4.5688-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.9.4.5688-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.9.4.5688-1_amd64.deb

v3.9.3.5670 (March 7th 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.9.3.5670.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.9.3.5670.md5
  • added cloud container support for Google Cloud Storage
    • this requires installation and configuration of gsutil via console using 'sudo install-gsutil'
  • added support for accessing cloud containers via CIFS, see Modify Network Share to enable
  • added AD group and user search/filtering features to QuantaStor web interface in Modify Network Share
  • added support for network share quota with ZFS based storage pools in Modify Network Share
  • added support for disabling browsing for network share _snaps directories in Modify Network Share
  • added enhanced tabs for hardware RAID units, disks, events to filter on selected controller
  • adds convenience Select All buttons to the network share permissions tab in Modify Network Share
  • moved tab for iSCSI sessions to Storage Volume section, now only shows iSCSI sessions for selected storage volume
  • fixed bug in cloud container create which would occasionally set the container state to error
  • minor updates to EULA
  • changed policy to have iSCSI redirection disabled by default as there are issues in grid configurations with VLANs where redirection could point to an inaccessible network
  • changed default max ARC size to 70% after initial system installation
  • added cluster configuration information to send log report
  • adds qs-util megasettime to set the clock on MegaRAID controllers
  • adds warning alert that additional configuration is required when NFSv4 w/ Kerberos mode is enabled.
  • fix to update '/etc/issue' automatically after network configuration changes
  • fix for HA custom callout script support
  • fix to cleanup HA groups on storage pool export
  • fix to skip schedule execution if no volumes/shares are present
  • fix to MegaRAID SCSI inquiry page parsing to flip serial number / model number around in some cases
  • fix to MegaRAID to show proper drive status when marked as 'Failed'
  • fix to AD domain leave operation to remove AD computer entry
  • fix for network share delete snapshot / unmount filesystem issue 
sudo -i
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.9.3.5670-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.9.3.5670-1_all.deb
dpkg -i qstormanager_3.9.3.5670-1_all.deb qstorservice_3.9.3.5670-1_amd64.deb

v3.9.1.5598 (February 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.9.1.5598.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.9.1.5598.md5
  • added optimizations to DR / remote-replication to efficiently handle import
  • added optimizations for Grid join process
  • added additional license capacity 'wiggle room' to allow for 1TB of additional space for SSD caching
  • fixed a race condition import problem seen with multiple replication policies all running concurrently
  • fixed disk device correlation problem seen when cloning VSAs in Virtual Box
  • fixed Cancel button in dialog for Add/Remove Shares from Quota
  • fixed AD join process to support Domain Administrator accounts with passwords which have spaces ' ' in them.

v3.9.0.5585 (January 2014)

  • ISO DVD image: osn_quantastor_v3.9.0.5585.iso
  • MD5 Hash: osn_quantastor_v3.9.0.5585.md5
  • adds support for SAS HBA based HA support
  • adds support for Gluster HA virtual network interfaces, now CIFS/NFS access to Gluster volumes is HA
  • adds customizable storage volume block size (ZVOL block size) in 'Create Storage Volume..' dialog under 'Advanced Settings'.
  • adds multipath support for dual-path SAS HBA connectivity to SAS JBOD
  • adds SNMP agent with get/walk/trap support
  • adds 'Attach Gluster Peer' dialog for customizing Gluster peer connections to use specific ports/interfaces
  • adds compression ratio information to volume, share, and pool properties
  • adds secondary port discovery for manually created virtual interfaces which show up in 'ip addr' but not 'ifconfig'
  • adds revised layout (grid aware) for all network management dialogs
  • fix for local user synchronization across grid nodes for Gluster/CIFS support
  • fix for CIFS/NFS configuration synchronization across grid nodes for Gluster
  • fixes for Japanese localization
  • fixes reboot/shutdown hang due to missing pacemaker K01 shutdown directive in /etc/rc6.d
  • fixes for Gluster 3.4 integration
  • optimizations for to speed up create grid operation
  • deprecates / removes btrfs pool type option from Create Storage Pool in web UI, still available from CLI
  • tested/certified LSI MegaRAID 93xx / 12G RAID Controller
  • manual upgrade procedure for systems on private networks: 
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstorservice_3.9.0.5585-1_amd64.deb
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/qstor-downloads/qstormanager_3.9.0.5585-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i qstorservice_3.9.0.5585-1_amd64.deb qstormanager_3.9.0.5585-1_all.deb

v3.8.2.5441 (December 19th 2013)

  • adds initial support for Samba4/SMB3.
  • adds 'zvolutil repair' command for fixing bad blocks/checksums in ZFS ZVOLs, more info here.
  • fix to RBAC role modify operation
  • fix to multi-tenancy support to add Network Shares as a cloud resource type
  • fix to Amazon S3 / add custom locations support

v3.8.1.5360 (December 3rd 2013)

  • fixes for storage volume clone operation
  • fixes for manual HA failover support
  • fixes for grid synchronization logic

v3.8.0.5335 (November 22nd 2013)

  • osn_quantastor_v3.8.0.5335.iso
  • osn_quantastor_v3.8.0.5335.md5
  • adds support for specifying block size and stripe leg length for hardware RAID unit creation (Adaptec / LSI MegaRAID)
  • adds unit build/initialization status information for Adaptec controllers
  • adds hardware controller configuration options to the toolbar
  • adds qs-util setzfsarcmin / setzfsarcmax commands for adjusting ZFS ARC global settings.
    • to configure your system to use 80% of available RAM for ARC cache use the command 'sudo qs-util setzfsarcmax 80'
    • reboot is required for new ARC settings to take effect
  • adds alert and task annotations to Librato Metrics integration
  • adds auto config adjustment to reserve at least 128M of RAM for the system
  • adds improved qs CLI help page
  • adds support for network share replication
  • fixes for remote-replication / DR
  • fixes for manual HA failover support
  • fixes Adaptec unit creation for single drive, JBOD type is now Simple Volume in 7xxx series
  • fixes pool start issue with ZFS pools where network shares would not auto-enable
  • fixes Adaptec 7xxx series device correlation
  • fixes web UI issue with duplicate physical disks associated to RAID unit
  • fixes 'Impacted' Adaptec unit state to be categorized as busy rather than warning
  • fixes auto-floating of pacemaker owned virtual ports
  • fixes NFS/CIFS export discovery issue with Scan function in Backup Policy create/modify dialogs


Change Log Archive

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