Version 1.1.0

Release Date

14th July 2022

New Features

• Admin portal main web interface now uses HTTPS.
• QoS Policies configuration.
• Snapshot scheduler with automatic VM snapshot creation.
• New “Create Snapshot From Datastore” wizard.
• New “Create Datastore from Snapshot” wizard.
• Virtual machine quiescing during Datastore snapshot creation from the existing Datastore (supported only on: Ubuntu 20.04(+), CentOS 8.x, Windows Desktop 2010(+))
• Added support for “edit” volume action, providing support for modification of ACL fields.
• VMware cluster-level auto-attach of new ESXi hosts.
• Report Datastore availability in plugin user interface.
• Admin portal now monitors the version of the VCP plugin registered to the vCenter, and will notify you if it is out of date.
• Added support for configurable sector size in Create Volume.
• Clarified semantics for volume’s “Attached” status.
• Hosts lists now show Host UUIDs.
• Improved visibility of Lightbits cluster health and metrics: graph data is available for 30 days back.
• Fixed: Lightbits upgrade.

Known Issues

• The VCP plugin supports autonomous attach and detach of ESXi hosts to Lightbits nodes, as Lightbits nodes or ESXi hosts become available. The VCP plugin also handles the remediation of any attachment failures between Lightbits nodes and ESXi hosts. This periodic logic requires the configuration of a username and password of a vSphere user with adequate permissions. If that user’s credentials are changed, a notification is shown - but only when accessing the plugin UI (rather than at the time of detection of the mismatch).
• Sporadic “Can’t find hardware.systemInfo.qualifiedName for Host” errors, which can be resolved by rebooting the ESXi host. These can fail volume attach or Datastore creation.
• Updating a QoS policy to be the default policy will fail when using a Lightbits 2.3.16 cluster. Subsequent updates of this QoS policy will also fail. Please see Lightbits Errata LBM1-20183 in the Lightbits Known Issues documentation for additional information.
• The reported size of a Datastore created from a snapshot might be slightly smaller than the size of the original backing volume of the Datastore (this is due to the vSphere SDK providing a size that doesn’t exactly match a volume size).
• When navigating from a Datastore summary to a snapshot listing, filtering may occasionally not work.
• When repeatedly editing a volume and updating its ACL at a high rate, the Edit Volume operation may fail (a subsequent new edit operation will succeed).
• The Snapshot Job page may require a manual refresh after the job has completed to update the values correctly in the page.

Supported Platforms

Lightbits Cluster Version:

• 2.3.16
• 3.0.1

vCenter Version:

• 7.0 U3

ESXi Version:

• 7.0 U3

Supported Web Browsers

• Google Chrome version 89.0.x (+)
• Mozilla Firefox version 87.0 (+)