Details for two releases are included in this section.
To use the StorageGRID Webscale SG6000 appliance, you must install or upgrade to StorageGRID Webscale 11.1.1 or later.
To provide guidance on the time to allow for an upgrade, the topic, "Estimating the time to complete an upgrade" has been added.
Upgrading StorageGRID Webscale > "Estimating the time to complete an upgrade"
A new Nodes option has been added to the Grid Manager main menu. You can select the tabs on the new Nodes page to view charts and tables that summarize how your system is performing and to see information about each node, including unacknowledged alarms, CPU utilization, networking summary, storage, and events. Object and ILM information is provided for Storage Nodes.
All of the detailed service and attribute information previously available from the Grid page continues to be available from a new page. The new Support menu also includes the Logs and AutoSupport options.
StorageGRID Webscale 11.1 adds support to help S3 tenant account users comply with the record keeping requirements of governmental agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The new compliance feature allows S3 tenants to comply with regulations that require object data to be preserved for a specified amount of time.
Grid administrators must first enable this functionality for the entire StorageGRID Webscale system by enabling the global Compliance setting. Then, S3 bucket owners can create compliant buckets using the S3 API, the Tenant Manager, or the Tenant Management API. Settings for compliant buckets allow users to specify the retention period for objects in the bucket, place a bucket under a legal hold, remove a legal hold, and determine whether objects are automatically deleted when their retention periods expire.
Objects in compliant buckets are evaluated by compliant rules in the active ILM policy: these rules ensure that at least two replicated copies or an erasure-coded copy of each object is maintained on Storage Nodes for the length of the retention period.
Improvements have been made to the software upgrade procedure in StorageGRID Webscale 11.1 to make upgrading to a new release faster and easier. Update packages are distributed to grid nodes in parallel, and you can upgrade one grid node of each type in parallel. In addition, the upgrade progress is reported for each node, so you can more readily discern where issues might be occurring.
The upgrade changes go into effect after you upgrade the primary Admin Node to StorageGRID Webscale 11.1.
Upgrading StorageGRID Webscale > "Performing the upgrade"
After upgrading to StorageGRID Webscale 11.1, you can apply StorageGRID Webscale hotfixes with an easy-to-use interface on the Grid Manager. Select .
Upgrading StorageGRID Webscale > "Increasing the Metadata Reserved Space watermark"
Implementing S3 client applications
S3 requests requiring CloudMirror replication, event notifications, or the search integration service are now automatically throttled to match the rate outgoing to the endpoint. This allows up to 100 active tenants to use platform services. You can now also configure an HTTP proxy for platform services to reach the internet. In addition, you no longer need to contact your NetApp representative before using platform services.
Previously, if a StorageGRID Webscale system included any grid nodes with a status of Unknown or Administratively Down, you could not decommission any of the connected grid nodes. With the release of StorageGRID Webscale 11.1, you can now decommission grid nodes while they are disconnected.
You can now place the compute controller in a StorageGRID Webscale appliance into maintenance mode, instead of shutting it down. Maintenance mode makes performing maintenance procedures, including firmware upgrades, on the storage controller less disruptive because you no longer need to access the appliance hardware to reapply power.