Release 20.12-SP2¶
Key Enhancements¶
New management graphical interface¶
We’re excited to announce the availability of our revised VPSA graphical user interface. The dashboard was redesigned to provide a snapshot to the VPSA Storage Array/Flash-Array/Object Storage state:
Current workload
Capacity utilization and trend
Resources status
VPSA Storage Array¶
Support Azure BLOB as an Object Storage tier¶
Azure BLOB can be used in the VPSA Flash-Array as an Object Storage Tier.
Support replacement of KMIP KMS key UUID used in the VPSA¶
KMS keys that were rotated can now be replaced with a new key in the VPSA management interface.
VPSA Object Storage¶
Container level replication¶
Container level replication allows an asynchronously object replication between Zadara’s VPSA Object Storage to a remote VPSA Object Storage or other S3 compatible Object Storage.
Zadara’s container level replication unblocks a new set of replication scenarios:
Move the data closer - Container replication can reduce latency for read operations by allowing the data the be consumed from the closest proximity.
Distribution - post processing, the data can be shifted to additional locations.
Optimizing cost - replicating the data to a remote location that uses a cheaper protection policy.
Data redundancy - you can maintain an additional copy of your data in an additional location (VPSA Object Storage, AWS S3 or any other s3 compatible storage)
The container level replication feature will be ready to use on any Zadara VPSA Object Storage that is running version 20.12-SP2 or later.
Configuring replication job may incur additional charges for data transfer, please contact your cloud administrator for additional information.
Interoperability¶
CSI Driver¶
Zadara’s VPSA Kubernetes CSI driver updated - Version 1.3.6 is now publicly available. The full list of changes is available in the CSI 1.3.6 section of the release notes. The latest driver installation and usage information can be found at Zadara’s CSI Github repository
Release 20.12-SP2 is a service pack release to the previous Zadara 20.12-SP1 release which includes scalability, security, usability improvements, new features and bug fixes.
The following section will breakdown the additions and updates to the Zadara Storage Cloud platform.
Version 20.12-SP2-247¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-18306 - Allow allocation of two VNIs (Virtual Network Interfaces) with a matching VLAN ID
VPSA Object Storage¶
ZSTRG-18306 - Allow allocation of two VNIs (Virtual Network Interfaces) with a matching VLAN ID
ZSTRG-18971 - Fix an issue with ZELB IPv6 routing table in a Multi-Zone storage cloud
Version 20.12-SP2-239¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-15673 - Allow VNI based remote mirroring on different networks. Limitation: Mirror replication over VNIs with different CIDR is applicable only if single VNI is attached to VPSA
ZSTRG-18049 - Fix an issue where the management console will not start post a failover
Version 20.12-SP2-233¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-17452, ZSTRG-17453 - Optimize zCache flush control to allow more affective flushing
ZSTRG-17367 - Flash Array Optimize zCache rules
ZSTRG-15227 - Fixed an issue where a false alarm HB failure ticket was raised during VC creation/upgrade.
VPSA Object Storage¶
ZSTRG-15227 - Fixed an issue where a false alarm HB failure ticket was raised during VC creation/upgrade.
ZSTRG-17427 - Fixed an issue where proxy server return 404 for an existing Object version
ZSTRG-15840 - Fixed an issue in which multi-delete request could fail to delete object (Error 412)
Storage Node¶
ZSTRG-15793 - Cloud installer will not upgrade the existing SIOM firmware
Version 20.12-SP2-229¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-16980 - Fixed an issue where name servers entries order prevents connecting to Active Directory.
Version 20.12-SP2-228¶
VPSA Flash Array¶
ZSTRG-15797 - Optimize CPU utilization and IO latency on a tiered pool volume.
Version 20.12-SP2-225¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-15800 - Fixed an issue where VMware encrypted NFS shares failed to complete VM vMotion
ZSTRG-15701 - Fixed a backward compatibility issue with MIB OIDs
Version 20.12-SP2-223¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
20556 - Fixed an issue where released VNI information was not dumped immediately
20567 - Fixed a rare issue where MTU changes were not propagated properly to existing VNIs
Storage Node¶
20530 - Fixed a rare issue where scheduled logs collection caused a storage node reboot.
Version 20.12-SP2-220¶
VPSA Object Storage¶
20380 - Fixed an issue with container sharding mechanism for V2 versioning enabled containers
20406,20418 - Fixed an issue where metadata read request for an object erroneously returned a failure
20415 - Fixed an issue where s3 delete bucket request fails
CSI 1.3.6¶
16990 - Added support to CSI snapshot API v1GA
16990 - Added support for VPSA IPv6 connectivity
20373 - Added support for driver installation using helm repository
20254 - Helm chart - support custom docker registry
20182 - Added support for custom CA certificate
20397 - Fixed an issue when disabling autoExpandSupport
20165 - Added support for HTTPS insecure mode
17395 - Added support to customize target namespace
20166 - Github repository documentation updates
Version 20.12-SP2-217¶
VPSA Object Storage¶
20235, 202272 - Improve S3 list-object-versions API performance for versioned containers with a large number of objects
20317 - Fixed a rare issue in 20.12-SP2 where closing a GET session prematurely will impact the proxy service
Version 20.12-SP2-204¶
VPSA Storage Array and VPSA Flash Array¶
18640, 20019, 19239 - Samba upgraded, include misc fixed for service panic
19948 - Fixed an issue where a metering DB update issue triggered a failover
19499 - Fix an issue with records filtering in the management GUI
VPSA Object Storage¶
20276 - Fixed an issue where Object Storage Virtual Controller failed due to a kernel panic
19370 - Add the ability to select the networking interface information that will be used for users email notifications
19314 - Added Data Policy accurate breakdown of the data utilization
18721 - Added account utilization information in the main account grid
19682 - Fix an issue where console was inaccessible if using the VNI network interface
19483 - Region field was added to the zios_admin account information page
19770 - Fixed an issue with the Usage Report formatting display
19737 - Fixed an issue where clients couldn’t establish TLS connection while using a custom TLS certificate (found in version 20.12)
Provisioning Portal¶
19537 - Added Provisioning API for Object Storage accounts
Known issues and limitations¶
VPSA Storage Array¶
ZSTRG-18222 - Mirror replication over VNIs with different CIDR is applicable only if single VNI is attached to VPSA
VPSA Object Storage¶
19979 - Object replication doesn’t support replication for containers with object-lock enabled. Container Replication will not detect versioning nor Object-Lock status of the remote Object Storage. Life cycle policy will not be created on the remote object storage as well.
20295 - Object Storage main dashboard operations breakdown display a summary of operations instead of concurrent operation breakdown.
Revision History¶
20.12-SP2-247, February 2022 (replaced 20.12-SP2-240)
20.12-SP2-240, January 2022
20.12-SP2-239, November 2021
20.12-SP2-233, November 2021
20.12-SP2-229, September 2021
20.12-SP2-228, September 2021
20.12-SP2-225, August 2021
20.12-SP2-223, August 2021
20.12-SP2-220, July 2021
20.12-SP2-217, July 2021
20.12-SP2-204, April 2021 (GA)