Release Notes

4 New Features
New Features
The following new features have been introduced in this version of PowerStore.
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits
Discovery
A new method of discovery has been added to
PowerStore.
In addition to discovering PowerStore with a
direct connection or remotely with the Discovery
Tool, you now have the option to discover
PowerStore using reserved IP addresses.
For details, see the PowerStore Planning Guide.
PowerStore Appliances can be discovered by
providing a reserved IP address.
After discovering PowerStore users can start the
initial set up using this temporary IP address, and
then they can switch to the management IP after
configuration.
The reserved IP address are also available to discover
other appliances
Import
Agentless import of external storage to a
PowerStore cluster
This feature is independent of the operating
system and the multipathing solution on the host,
and the front-end connectivity between the host
and the source system. Agentless import does not
require the installation of host plugin software on
the host, however, you do need to reconfigure
the host application to work with the new
PowerStore volumes. Only a one-time host
application downtime is required prior to the
migration. The downtime only includes renaming
or reconfiguring the host application, file systems,
and datastores to the PowerStore volumes.
Only an iSCSI connection is supported between
the source system and the PowerStore cluster. For
Dell PS source systems, all the connections
between the hosts and the Dell PS source system
and between the hosts and the PowerStore
cluster must be iSCSI. For Dell SC, or Dell EMC
Unity, VNX2, XtremIO X1, XtremIO X2 source
systems, the connections between the hosts and
the Dell SC, or Dell EMC Unity, VNX2, XtremIO X1,
XtremIO X2 source system and between the hosts
and the PowerStore cluster must be either all
iSCSI or all Fibre Channel (FC).
For detailed information about this feature, see
the Importing External Storage to PowerStore
Guide on https://www.dell.com/powerstoredocs
.
For the most up-to-date supported versions of
source systems and operating environment for an
agentless import, see the PowerStore Support
Matrix.
Installation of host plugin software on the host
systems is not required.
Ease of use – The agentless import process is fully
orchestrated by PowerStore. A wizard guides the user
through the whole process.
Online copying of data between the source system
and PowerStore is automated.