Release Notes
Drive Spare Rightsizing
When Storage Center consumes a spare drive, Drive Spare Rightsizing allows Storage Center to modify the size of a larger capacity
spare drive to match the capacity of the drive being replaced in the tier. After
Storage Center modies the size of the drive, the drive
cannot be modied to its original size without assistance from Dell Technical Support. Drive Spare Rightsizing is enabled by default
for all controllers running
Storage Center version 7.2.11 or later.
This feature allows Dell Technical Support to dispatch larger capacity drives of the same disk class when the same size drive is not
available, providing faster delivery times.
Disk Power On Time Report
Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3 allows users to view a report on the age and status of a drive on a Storage Center version 7.1 or
higher.
Dell Storage Manager Scalability
To optimize performance and prevent connectivity issues, Dell recommends that one Data Collector manages no more than ten
Storage Centers. A Data Collector may exceed that recommendation depending on the network latency, I/O load, and number of
volumes.
Support for FluidFS Version 6
Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3 includes support for FluidFS version 6. FluidFS version 6 includes these new features:
• Multitenancy
• SMB3.1 and SMB3.1.1
• SMB3 Multi-Channel
• SMB3 Dynamic Access Control
• SMB Change Notify Full Support
• NFSv4 Advisory Locks
• FTP and FTPS User Authentication and Encryption
• Display More Details On Connected SMB Sessions
• One To Many and Cascaded Replication
• Replication WAN Optimization
• Active Directory Organizational Unit
• Control Local Account UID and GID
• Metadata Tiering
• 128 TB Files
• SNMP v3
• Automated Scheduled Reports
• Statistics on NAS Volume Contents
For more information, see the Dell FluidFS Version 6 Release Notes.
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