3.8.0

New Features and Improvements

The StorONE system now supports an embedded management service that does not require an external relay machine.
The StorONE system now supports multi-system management. This is a lightweight service that you can install on a Windows machine or VM in your environment to manage multiple StorONE systems with an embedded management service (also referred to as a relay). This service is required when replicating between StorONE systems with embedded management services to act as a quorum witness, as this functionality was previously provided by the external relay.
The system now supports the ability to unapprove drives from a pool.
Improved support for drive LEDs, adopting a more generic approach that accommodates a broader range of drive enclosures.
Added recycle bin support for volumes. If enabled, volumes are moved to a recycle bin when deleted, until you remove the volume permanently or the time limit expires. The retention period is specified when you enable the recycle bin for the system.
Added support for secure erase for drives.
New licensing mechanism: You can now add a license via the web GUI and view license data from the GUI/CLI.
Added support for administrators to upload and upgrade versions without requiring StorONE support personnel assistance.
Added the ability to store filesystem metadata on an SSD pool. Not supported for replicated volumes.
You can now configure SMTP settings to be used for both notifications and multi-factor authentication (MFA) messages.

Improved system idleness determination to be based on specific drive pool utilization instead of general system performance.
Lower tier locks for evacuation are now HA-aware. Volumes running on different controller nodes can evacuate to the same lower tier pool simultaneously.

Multi-admin approval: you can require multiple administrators to approve critical configuration changes like volume deletions.
Improved multi-factor authentication (MFA): only administrators can enable/disable MFA settings for other users. Also added support for automatic reconnection of MFA users after network disconnections.
Improved configuration history to not truncate long commands.

Improved host mapping deletions
Added more context-specific action shortcut buttons for listed elements in the GUI. For example, when you list volumes in the GUI, volume-specific action buttons, such as ‘Edit’ and ‘Delete’, are available. When you list drives, drives that support Secure Erase have a ‘Secure Erase’ button.

Replication witness settings can now be configured using the CLI or GUI, and you can view the replication witness log.

Added support for distributed block or file VSS snapshots.
Improved snapshot deletion to always delete a single snapshot at a time, and to allow parallel snapshot deletions if the volumes reside on different controller nodes. This improves overall system performance and reduces resource contention.