Version 24.05
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 24.05
- Diagnostics ver 24.05
- Cluster Health Checker ver 24.05
- CLAN ver 24.05
- OS images based on: RHEL 7.9, OL 7.9; RHEL 8.10, OL 8.10; OL 9.4
New Features:
- add OL9 support #4067, #4189
- node_update: remove the leftover '.fg' directories from grid home #4156
- Oracle Patches 2024-04-16 #4093
- allow no PSU for DB 11.2 and 12.1 #4048
AWS-specific:
- terraform aws fixes in launcher #4168
- disable dNFS by default during deployment #4074
Azure-specific:
- Drop Azure FX series from Launcher #4179
- Azure NVME disks: change scheduler from kyber to none #4149
- Drop M, Mv2, and Msv2 VM series #4096
- allow using Premium SSD v2 for all disks (except root) #4001
GCP-specific:
- in Launcher for GCP add OS selector #4115
Bug Fixes:
- Deployment failed with r7i.xlarge #4165
- mcelog fails on AMD instances #4142
- DB software installation failing because of race with CVU lock on orainventory #4132
- Deployment failed with Check block device for LVM PV: /dev/xvdz with large number of disks #4130
- OL8: LVM fails to bring up u01 disk #4100
- 19.23 deployment fails on tfactl set autodiagcollect=OFF failed 20 times on rac2 ABORTING #4095
- race condition during install flashgrid-os-conf and flashgrid-os-conf-<cloud_name> #4091
- flashgrid-db-failover-cfg can be invoked with wrong host name and duplicate nodes #4052
- sysdisk-hb file interfering with GI software #4032
Version 24.01
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 24.01
- Diagnostics ver 24.01
- Cluster Health Checker ver 24.01
- CLAN ver 24.01
- OS images based on: RHEL 7.9, OL 7.9; RHEL 8.9, OL 8.9
New Features:
- Disk HB: output a message to serial log before shutdown #3840
- Disk HB: monitoring through files on '/' and '/u01' #3761
- node update insufficient logging #3087
AWS-specific:
- add AWS ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary) region #3934
- sc1 minimum volume size should be changed to 125GB #3484
Azure-specific:
- max number of disks per VM #2843
GCP-specific: None
Bug Fixes:
-
Add missing Azure Standard_M416s_v2 VM sizes #3993
- correct way to fence the system in sysdisk-hb #3972
- in Launcher hide instance types that are old or for custom configs only #3920
- Validation messages are displayed on single line #3912
Version 23.11
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 23.11
- Diagnostics ver 23.11
- Cluster Health Checker ver 23.11
- CLAN ver 23.11
- OS images based on: RHEL 7.9, OL 7.9; RHEL 8.9, OL 8.9
New Features:
- RHEL / OL 8.9 support #3867
- use Halt instead of Reboot in Disk HB service #3759
- Automatically shutdown the system in case of unrecoverable memory errors (MCE) #3724
AWS-specific:
- AWS EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance #3868
- drop EIP Association #3852
- AWS EC2 I4i instances introduced two new sizes: i4i.12xlarge and i4i.24xlarge #3834
- add AWS R7i EC2 instances #3820
- add AWS C7a EC2 instances #3804
- add AWS C7i EC2 instances #3781
- add AWS R7a EC2 instances #3774
- add AWS R7iz EC2 instances #3764
- deployment in AWS local zones #3450
Azure-specific:
- Azure Encryption at host #3846
- add Azure Ms_v3, Mds_v3 VMs #3779
- add customer managed key support for Azure disk encryption #3004
GCP-specific:
- set reduced nr_requests on GCP target disks #3836
Bug Fixes:
- M7a/C7a/R7a incorrect core count #3896
- Internal Launcher error in Launcher when redundancy is not defined #3873
- Azure GI/DB 19.3 + Oct'23 PSU: TFA failed to start. #3826
Version 21.08
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 21.08
- Diagnostics ver 21.08
- Cluster Health Checker ver 21.08
- CLAN ver 21.08
- OS images based on: RHEL 7.9, OL 7.9
New features:
AWS-specific:
- enable EBS encryption by default #2696
- more limited access to SSH port #2681
Azure-specific:
- added Azure FX series VMs #2608
- Azure dedicated host support #2439
GCP-specific: No GCP version
Bug fixes:
- Update 21.8.54: session replacement timeout too small #2740
- creating diskgroup failure if a reserved word is used as its name #2613
- avoid modifying iscsid.service files #2691
- avoid modifying dnsmasq.service #2692
- FS not mounted on client nodes #2672
Version 21.02
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 21.02
- Diagnostics ver 21.02
- Cluster Health Checker ver 21.02
- CLAN ver 20.10
- RHEL 7.9 / OL 7.9 based OS images
New features:
- Added licensee name to FlashGrid license
AWS-specific:
- GP3 volume support
- R5b EC2 instance types support
- new AWS regions: AF South 1 (Cape Town), EU South 1 (Milan), and EU North 1 (Stockholm)
- Removed Placement Group for a standalone server
Azure-specific:
- Improved free trial license file generation
GCP-specific: No GCP version
Bug fixes:
- Standalone GI init fails if GRID DG has Normal Redundancy #2365
Version 20.10
Software component versions:
- Storage Fabric 20.08
- Diagnostics ver 20.09
- Cluster Health Checker ver 20.09
- CLAN ver 20.10
- RHEL 7.9 / OL 7.9 based OS images
Initial Release of FlashGrid server (non-clustered)