Update

NGX_Software_2.2.0 represents a major step forward for the NGX Storage Gen2 series products. This update includes a wealth of new features and enhancements that will greatly improve the performance and stability of the system.

In addition to fixing minor bugs and improving system performance, NGX_Software_2.2.0 introduces a number of new features that will enhance the user experience. These include a more intuitive user interface, enhanced security measures, and improved data management capabilities.

Overall, NGX_Software_2.2.0 represents a major milestone in the evolution of the NGX Storage Gen2 series products.

 

What’ New

  • GUI enhancements at Dashboard, LUN's and Share pages.
  • Storage Configuration menu simplified, and it shows Base2 and Base10 capacity information at creation time.
  • S3 quota, object statistic and object size histogram features are added.
  • Faulted hard drive logging now shows raid stripe group information.
  • Hard drive slots are automatically disabling after the drive fault or manual detach. Administrative action required to enable the slots from the GUI.
  • Synchronous replication handles network bandwidth and latency problem without administrative actions.
  • Software and firmware updates are completely changed. Prior all controllers should have its own signed update files. Now you can install only a single file for each controller.
  • Improved diagnostic collector to identify possible and current problems on the system.
  • Snapshot capacity reports per LUN and Share.
  • Network or FibreChannel adapter link up/down notifier.
  • Show FC link errors at the Network Settings page.
  • Improved hardware details at the maintenance page.
  • SEL logs can be seen on Logs page as System Events.
  • Jumbo frame settings can be change individually for both controllers real time.
  • For iSCSI connections you can define the IP strictly at the Network Settings page.
  • Improved iSCSI ToE feature for enhanced performance and low latency.
  • A new CLI interface over SSH added ngxli> .
  • Generate SAN switch zone configurations for the Brocade and Cisco from the ngxcli.
  • Remote replication data transfer performance enhanced over 2x.
  • Intelligent deduplication now controls dynamic resources and provides better performance under heavy load.
  • QoS settings are optimized for both AFA and Hybird series.
  • SMB Settings menu now shows AD status info and Kerberos tickets. Also periodic tasks logs AD / Kerberos / DNS issues as a warnings.
  • Cached AD connected users can be flushed from SMB Settings menu.
  • SMB tuning for large scale customers, improved 2x read performance.
  • SMB service now have offline login support up to 2 hour to provide its services under AD outage.
  • CEF log format added for remote logging.
  • Product_ID per controller is changed to a single service_tag.
  • Lots of system wide stability and performance improvements.

Bug Fixes

 

Learn more or download updates from https://support.ngxstorage.com