Release Notes

6 New Features
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits
Monitoring Provides the ability to measure the
performance of iSCSI protocols per IP interface.
Enables the user to measure iSCSI performance per IP
interface as part of the ongoing management or
troubleshooting.
Monitoring Provides the ability to identify CPU utilization
per node, Provides the ability to identify
Volume/VM/vVol affinity.
Enables the user to track CPU utilization per node
and balance it manually, managing the volumes
affinity if required.
PowerStore CLI This feature enables you to filter rows of output
in the command-line interface using more than
two dozen operators along with specific
arguments.
This feature allows you to filter the data to see only
the relevant data that you want to see.
PowerStore Manager
(GUI)
This feature allows for the ability to run an
independent health check of the system using
PowerStore Manager>Monitoring>System
Checks. The health check provides information
on hardware, customer objects and system
internals.
Customers can run a health check to learn about the
cluster health in PowerStore Manager. The health
check results may be used to resolve issues prior to
performing actions such as system upgrade.
PowerStore Manager
(GUI)
A banner display at the top of PowerStore
Manager notifies users when something
significant has occurred because of a degraded
system or an on-going operation that requires
immediate attention. Some alerts displayed in
the banner are triggers to begin corrective steps
when an issue has occurred on the cluster or
the cluster appliances, while other messages
alert users to system conditions which they may
need to be made aware of.
The banner colors correspond to the alert
severity. Multiple colors may be displayed
simultaneously. The different colors allow users
to easily assess the situation. The highest
severity alert dictates the banner color when
there are concurrent alerts being presented.
Immediately alerts users that are currently logged in
to PowerStore of an event that may impact their
environment.
PowerStore Manager
(GUI)
Provides direct mapping of Volume Group
collectively for all included volumes to a
respective Host/Host Group.
Provides the ability for users to map a Volume Group
to a Host/Host Group.