Release Notes

New Features 5
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits
Installation and
upgrade
PowerStore X model systems now support
VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office
(ROBO) licenses. vSphere ROBO Enterprise and
vSphere ROBO Advanced licenses are supported
on PowerStore X model systems, but vSphere
ROBO Standard licenses are not supported.
NOTE: A vSphere ROBO license supports a
maximum of 25 virtual machines.
A less expensive VMware vSphere ROBO license can
be used by customers who do not require more than
25 VMs per PowerStore X model.
Installation and
Upgrade
While upgrading PowerStore T models, Unified
health check warnings are generated. The
messages are only warnings, and PowerStore will
continue with the upgrade.
Improve user experience of upgrades for Unified
customers.
Monitoring
Improved user experience by displaying real-time
capacity metrics when the system is in write
protect mode. This allows the user to view the
actual capacity metrics and decide which
resources to delete to free capacity on the
appliance.
Displaying the accurate metrics consumed by the
storage resources allows the user to decide which
resources to delete in order to free up capacity on
the appliance.
Notifications and
alerts
When you add an existing or new appliance to
your PowerStore cluster, there is a chance that it
may be running a different version of the
PowerStore OS than the appliances in your
cluster. An alert will now appear in PowerStore
Manager when appliances within your cluster are
running a different version of the PowerStore OS.
To ensure that there is no degradation in
performance or loss of access to features, it is
recommended that you follow the prompts and
upgrade the software such that all appliances in
your cluster are running the same version of the
PowerStore OS.
Users are alerted when an appliance, which is
running a different version of operating system, is
added to a PowerStore cluster.
The alert text strongly recommends upgrading the
appliances in the cluster to a common, and
preferably, the latest OS version.
Alerts are raised in the following scenarios:
- When adding a new appliance
If NDU fails to complete and renders the appliances
in the same cluster running a different version of
operating system.
Notifications and
Alerts
The user will receive out of space alerts for
Network Attached Storage and be notified of
which actions are unavailable when an appliance
is put in read-only mode due to out of space.
At the time the appliance is out of space, users are
notified that:
file systems will be in read-only mode.
Actions such as volume creation, snap creation, are
unavailable because the appliance has been put into
read-only mode.