v5.8.1.016 (December 9th 2020)

by Lauren Grob

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 ]