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Release Notes: Storage Fabric software

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  • Products: FlashGrid Storage Fabric

Note: Diagnostics versions 19.05 or newer require Storage Fabric version 19.05 or newer, and vice versa. Combining with an older version is possible only with manually customized /etc/flashgrid-diags.cfg

Note: Diagnostics versions 18.10 or newer require Storage Fabric version 18.10 or newer, and vice versa. Combining with an older version is possible only with Diagnostics email alerts explicitly disabled in /etc/flashgrid-diags.cfg

Version 24.09

New Features:

  • move flashgrid_diskwait logs from syslog to a separate log file #4279

Bug Fixes: None

Version 24.05

New Features: None

Bug Fixes:

  • improve remote disk timeouts for better handling of network disruptions #4153
  • diskwatch logging errors on db-only nodes #4126

Version 24.01

New Features:

  • add timestamp to flashgrid command output #3381
  • flashgrid-dg resize-disks command #2153

Bug Fixes: None

Version 23.11

New Features:

  • better reporting of a target disk error #3743

Bug Fixes:

  • fg-cluster-error: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' in check_auth_unix/getgrgid #3851
  • large io latencies on initiators when running RMAN #3824
  • Use 'none' scheduler for initiator disks on RH8/OL8 #3675

Version 23.09

New Features: None

Bug Fixes:

  • move blocking sysfs access to thread pool #3717

Version 23.06

New Features:

  • setting right scheduler/queue parameters #3626

  • update list of scheduler types #3619

  • drop ec2route.py functionality #3557

  • implement better way to disable/blacklist multipathd #3274

Bug Fixes:

  • target service reporting device read error on 4KB disk sector sizes #3633

  • AWS OL7 GI 12.2 + Jan'22 PSU, DB 11.2 + Jan'23 PSU: Cluster initialization failed during GI config #3571

Version 23.04

New Features:

  • remove WAIT parameter from 'flashgrid-dg replace-all-disks' #3524

  • add verbose output for strict-read-local-show #3499

Bug Fixes:

  • error trying to disable Strict Read Local #3486

Version 23.02

New Features:

  • Add capture of V$ASM_OPERATION to "flashgrid-node asm-state" #3459

Bug Fixes: None

Version 22.12

New Features:

  • retire flashgrid-create-dg utility #3378
  • remove color formatting from all logs and utils output #3308

Bug Fixes:

  • flashgrid utils slow when storage impaired because of ASM disk discovery #2896
  • flashgrid-dg add-disks for EXTERNAL redundancy disk groups limits size #2622

Version 22.09

New Features:

  • add flashgrid-os-conf RPM #2982
  • show Cluster software version in flashgrid-cluster output #2743

Bug Fixes:

  • setting failgroup_repair_time produces errors with External Redundancy DGs #3207

Version 22.03

New Features:

  • remove dependency on instant client #2928
  • set io timeout parameter for initiator disks #2882
  • add iSCSI abort timeout #2881
  • Enforcing correct disk_repair_time/failgroup_repair_time parameters #2825
  • sector size attributes in 'flashgrid-dg create' #2822
  • allow disabling ReadLocal #2712

Bug Fixes:

  • Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments is not configured at recommended value #2429 #2974
  • flashgrid-node stop-target does not stop disks gracefully #2947
  • disk check failing after initiator login on RH/OL 8 #2876
  • flashgrid-cluster -h typo #2833

Version 21.11

New features: None

Bug fixes:

  • incorrect max_sectors_kb on RH8 / OL8 #2781

Version 21.09

New features:

  • remove initiator health check timeout #2765
  • allow disabling ReadLocal #2712
  • alerts for initiator events #2745
  • alerts for DISK_FAILED2 state in diskwatch service #2739

Bug fixes:

  • flashgrid-cluster net reports network speed -1 #2731

Version 21.08

New features: 

  • change logging to asynchronous in flashgrid services #2648

Bug fixes:

  • Update 21.8.67: remove initiator health check timeout #2765
  • Update 21.8.61: alerts for initiator events #2745
  • excessive amount of udev change events #2374
  • target restart failing #2688
  • avoid modifying iscsid.service files #2691
  • target service failure because of error on one disk #2693
  • local SSD unnecessarily replaced after reset by reconstruct service #2669
  • diskwatch service failing when a local disk is not returning i/o #2647

Version 21.06

New features:

  • RHEL8 / OL8 and Python3 support #2464

Bug fixes:

  • nvme driver timeout settings #2589
  • Remove duplicate by-id symlinks to disks #2559
  • Creating DG with name matching an Oracle reserved word #2199

Version 21.02

New features:

  • Allow multiple network sessions per disk #2408
  • Set licensee name for FlashGrid license #2367
  • Added upcoming license expiration alert #2371
  • Do not show REST API server version in HTTP header #2312

Bug fixes:

  • Update 21.2.1: SF fails with FIPS enabled #2397
  • Update 21.2.1: Standalone GI init fails if GRID DG has Normal Redundancy #2365
  • Update 21.2.1: "No License" message in customer alerts #2300

Version 20.08

New features:

  • External Redundancy support #2108
  • Single node configurations #2105

Bug fixes:

  • Update 20.8.165: during resync disks are not taken offline gracefully #2353
  • Update 20.8.53: failure to start instance after downsizing because of OOM #2227
  • Update 20.8.42: flashgrid-ca removes some parameters from CFG file #2177
  • Update 20.8.38: flashgrid-cluster drives ASMStatus shows ONLINE should be DROPPING #2193
  • Update 20.8.25: flashgrid-dg typos #2173
  • Update 20.8.21: vm.min_free_kbytes not set #2172
  • Update 20.8.5: flashgrid-cluster service constantly restarting NIC in standalone config #2127

Version 19.06

New features:

  • HTTP proxy for REST alerts and uploads #1868
  • CLI command for setting parameters in flashgrid.cfg #1869
  • use Oracle instant client 19c #1864

Bug fixes:

  • Update 19.6.480: failure to start instance after downsizing because of OOM #2227
  • Update 19.6.452: flashgrid-dg typos #2173
  • Update 19.6.448: vm.min_free_kbytes not set #2172
  • Update 19.6.432: flashgrid-node reboot should not fail when flashgrid service is down #2088
  • Update 19.6.385: messages about email alerts clogging syslog #1921
  • Update 19.6.329: flashgrid-dg create and flashgrid-create-dg incorrectly set SITE for quorum disks on extended clusters. #1511
  • Update 19.6.266: increase fs.aio-max-nr parameter to 3M #2025
  • Update 19.6.125: unfriendly error if flashgrid-dg executed on non-ASM node #1950
  • Update 19.6.48: flashgrid-create-dg fails with GI 19.3 #1893
  • Update 19.6.47: auth failures causing cluster service disruption #1904
  • Update 19.6.45: AIO queue saturation due to incorrect max queue size #1884
  • 'flashgrid-cluster strict-read-local-enable' fails with GI 19c #1863
  • avoid splitting alerts in multiple emails #1872
  • after set-email-alerts, node-monitor keeps using old emails for sending alerts #1873
  • target service generating alerts because clearing WCE flag fails #1881

Version 19.05

New features:

  • auto-config of reserved kernel memory #1767
  • activate license file without service restart #1766
  • "Call home" alerting mechanism #1824
  • simultaneous onlining of disks after reboot/restart #1687

Bug fixes:

  • Update 19.5.76: AIO queue saturation due to incorrect max queue size #1884
  • flashgrid-ca: unable to add Virtual Disks on GCP #1818
  • diskwatch service failed #1845

Version 19.03

New features:

  • support for GCP

Bug fixes:

  • avoid unnecessary iscsid restart during SF RPM update #1846
  • disks stay offline after 'flashgrid-node start' #1814

Version 19.02

New features:

  • support for local SSDs on EC2 i3.metal, R5d, M5d, Z1d instance types #1728
  • automatic configuration of HugePages #1705
  • Azure local NVMe SSD support #1738
  • removed dependency on local OSS repo #1749

Bug fixes:

  • Update 19.2.162: AIO queue saturation due to incorrect max queue size #1884
  • Update 19.2.130: diskwatch service failed #1845
  • Update 19.2.92: avoid unnecessary iscsid restart during SF RPM update #1846
  • Update 19.2.61: disks stay offline after 'flashgrid-node start' #1814
  • incorrect lunX device mapping for Azure disks with partitions #1712

Version 18.11

New features:

  • added service for automatically onlining disks after transient failures

Bug fixes:

  • iscsid may fail to start after reboot #1717
  • diags: flashgrid-cluster timing out when ASM not responding #1576

Version 18.10

New features:

  • support for Oracle GI 18c
  • added flashgrid-dg replace-all-disks command #1536
  • email alerts for events in node monitor logs #1587

Bug fixes:

  • diags: flashgrid-cluster timing out when ASM not responding #1576
  • flashgrid-node shows unfriendly error message if flashgrid service stopped #1598

Version 18.08

New features:

  • reliability enhancements in disk heartbeat mechanism #1453

Bug fixes:

  • flashgrid-dg create incorrectly sets SITE for quorum disks in Extended Clusters #1511
  • flashgrid-cluster drives showing disk status incorrectly #1532
  • incorrectly configures Site parameter for Extended Clusters with quorum on external iSCSI storage #1354
  • update 22: errors when stopping target service #1566

Version 18.07

New features:

  • support for direct storage connections for improved performance in Azure

Version 18.06

New features:

  • flashgrid-cluster: added Vote files monitoring
  • added license file and reminders

Version 18.03

New features:

  • flashgrid-cluster: non-zero return codes for Critical/Warning states
  • add site parameter for external iSCSI disks #1354

Bug fixes:

  • update 114: I/O errors on NVMe disks #1198
  • update 92: collect-diags showing error #1476
  • update 89: missing announcements on overloaded network #1441
  • update 83: flashgrid-ca: shows cfg file mismatch when checksum is the same #1449
  • update 83: 'flashgrid-cluster strict-read-local-show' fails if called via sudo #1138
  • update 75: initiator check mechanism imrpovements #1453
  • After reboot a target is not started #1377

Version 18.01

New features:

  • flashgrid-dg create: add FLEX redundancy level #927
  • flashgrid-dg show: show repair_time and compat attributes for the DG #1050

Bug fixes:

  • security hardening: set umask=0022 for processes creating cfg files #1314

Version 17.11

New features:

  • add 'flashgrid-cluster set-email-alerts' command #1286

Bug fixes:

  • capture additional files in diags #1277
  • 'flashgrid-dg add-disks' with incorrect DG name shows very cryptic error #1270
  • 'flashgrid-node start' command stops ASM #1191

Version 17.10

New features:

  • add support for Oracle GI 12.2.0.1 Oct'17 Release Update #1208

Bug fixes:

  • update 25: 'flashgrid-node start' command stops ASM #1191
  • with custom directories ASM and DB alert logs are not captured in diags #1192

Version 17.09

New features:

  • add SAR stats to diags #1194
  • update instant client to ver 12.2 #989

Bug fixes:

  • update 25: 'flashgrid-node start' command stops ASM #1191
  • with custom directories ASM and DB alert logs are not captured in diags #1192
  • 'flashgrid-create-dg' creates DG with invalid value of 'disk_repair_time' #1026
  • 'flashgrid-create-dg' and 'flashgrid-dg create' do not report error if flashgrid service is not running on ASM node #939
  • Target service failure and unwarranted dismount of diskgroup during CalibrateIOstress #1159
  • flashgrid-ca: spaces between email addresses in 'To:' result in bad address saved #1163