Release Notes

6 New Features
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits
Security Directory Services for PowerStore
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP),
is an application protocol for querying and
modifying directory services running on TCP/IP
networks. LDAP helps centralize the management
of network authentication and authorization
operations. Integrating PowerStore Manager
users into an existing LDAP environment provides
a way to control management access based on
established user and group accounts within the
LDAP directory.
PowerStore supports the following LDAP server
types:
- Active Directory—a Microsoft directory
service. It runs on Windows Server and
allows administrators to manage
permissions and access to network
resources.
- OpenLDAP—a free, open-source
implementation of LDAP.
After you configure the LDAP settings for
PowerStore, you can perform user management
functions. For example, you can assign access
permissions to PowerStore Manager based on
existing users and groups, within the context of an
established LDAP directory structure.
This feature allows system administrators to connect
to authentication services for centralized user
management across entire domains. This provides for
easier and more flexible management of system user
access and authorization to PowerStore appliances.
Service
Service script “svc_volume_space_metrics” is now
available to retrieve volume family level capacity
information when capacity and performance
metrics are unavailable due to an out-of-space
condition.
When capacity and performance data for a volume is
unavailable, you can now use the service script to
retrieve the following information for a volume:
Volume family ID
Volume family
Volume family logical capacity used
Volume family shared logical capacity used
Volume family unique physical capacity used
Name of the primary volume (name from CP volume
config, empty string ("") if primary volume is
deleted).
Type of volumes in the family (block volume, vvol, file
system volume, storage_type in CP volume
configuration table)
Number of snapshot volumes in the family
Number of clone volumes in the family