A2 Release Notes 6.0.1 #7894

Alike v6.0.1

Released: 12/13/2018

A stabilization build for the A2

Improvements

• Increases SMB/CIFS network buffers, improving potential throughput to ADS and ODS storage when using CIFS

Bug Fixes

• Addresses interprocess database contention issues
• Fixes issue where ABD deployment and diagnostic jobs incorrectly required an A2 license key to work
• Improves HTTP connectivity to XenServer
• Improves A2 networking to ABDs
• Resolves issue with orphan ABDs
• Decreases chattiness of Web UI to Alike ADS
• Resolves rare error with RestoreFS during boot-up
• Resolves intermittent "Command not finished" error during commit phase

Known Issues

• A2's Jobs directory can grow large, requiring manual cleanup, for single-pass replication jobs
• Importing of Alike v4 Offsite Vaults is not supported yet
• ADS/ODS can report the available space incorrectly for local/unencapsulated stores
• Intermittent "Unable to read data from the transport connection" from XenAPI on older XenServer versions
• Vaulting bandwidth controls not yet available
• LVM file-level restore not supported for RestoreFS (full restores are supported)
• Error reporting during "full restore" jobs is limited/unhelpful
• Deleting an entire VM from the UI will remove it to be lost from any configured jobs
• Revert (overwrite) restores not available
• XenCenter console can become unresponsive, use SSH as a workaround if affected
• Dashboard graph empty on first day after initial install and setup