v5.6.2.096 (June 23rd 2020)

by Lauren Grob

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 ]