What's new in 8.7.2
Learn about new features, enhancements, and important updates that are available in this release.
Version 8, Release 7.2
| Feature/Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
| Flash Grid visualization |
Use Flash Grid to scale-out a storage system by adding more independent systems to create a federated cluster.
Concepts
Flash Grid Implementing a Flash Grid Command-line interface New commands Flash Grid commands svcinfo lsflashgrid svcinfo lsflashgridpartition svcinfo lsflashgridsystem |
| iSCSI hosts in HA partitions |
Concepts
Planning high availability |
| SCSI Persistent Reservations for volumes in storage partitions | |
| Portset linking in HA |
Concepts
Portset links Creating a portset Command-line interface Revised commands mkportset chportset rmportset rmpartnership mkhost chhost |
| Internal key management for encrypted data-at-rest |
Concepts
Encryption overview Planning for encryption Encryption recovery key Enabling the encryption recovery key Unlocking the system using the encryption recovery key Encryption with internal key management Enabling encryption with internal key management Rekeying a system with internal key management Disabling encryption with internal key management Switching to internal key management method Switching from internal key management to external methods Decommissioning encryption Command-line interface Revised commands chencryption lsencryption |
| Single point of administration for health reporting for objects in a Flash Grid | |
| More than 16 NVMe over Fibre Channel hosts |
Concepts
NVMe over Fibre Channel host attachments Hosts Host portsets Managing hosts Command-line interface Revised commands mkhost chhost |
| Policy-based replication can be configured on image mode volumes to allow for a migration from external storage, while maintaining any existing replication on the backend storage during the migration | |
| Volumes or volume groups that are replicated or in highly available storage partitions can be restored or refreshed from a snapshot |
Concepts
Snapshot properties Command-line interface Revised commands restorefromsnapshot refreshfromsnapshot |
| Granularity for iSCSI 2-way CHAP authentication and FIPS compliance for iSCSI hosts |
Concepts
Host authentication iSCSI configuration details for host connections Configuring the system for iSCSI hosts iSCSI support (considerations) Setting up authentication for Linux hosts Authentication for Windows hosts Setting up authentication for VMware hosts What to check after running the system recovery Command-line interface Revised commands lshost chhost chsystem chsecurity |
| VLAN tagging on management networks for Service IP addresses |
Troubleshooting
Procedure: Changing the service IP address of a node canister Command-line interface Revised commands satask chserviceip chnodeserviceip |
| Creating a standard child pool in a standard parent pool without specifying a quota | |
| Host offline alerts can be enabled or disabled on a per host basis | |
| Storage partition migration |
Concepts
Storage partitions Migrating storage partitions between systems Command-line interface Revised commands lshost chhost mkhost chpartition |
| Rewrite the svcconfig utility |
Troubleshooting
Recover system procedure Restoring the system configuration Backing up the system configuration using the CLI Deleting backup configuration files by using the CLI Command-line interface Revised commands restore svcconfig |
| Capacity usability | |
| VASA certificate |
Concepts
Implementing vVols Implementing vVols Replication Command-line interface Revised commands mktruststore chtruststore |
| I/O statistics for individual IP Partnership |
Concepts
Statistics collection |