Version 1.3.0

Release Date

December 22, 2022

New Features

• Lightbits multi-tenancy support.
• Dedicated view for tenancy admin to manage Lightbits storage clusters and tenants.
• Dedicated view for tenant to manage and provision storage.
• Register plugins to multiple vCenters.
• Datastore snapshot wizard now supports virtual machine quiescing (supported only on: Ubuntu 20.04(+), CentOS 8.x, Windows Desktop 2010(+))
• Encrypt backup file.
• Fixed: After DB restore, some scheduled jobs may not be triggered (for example, the “Next run” field in the Jobs view remains empty), until the plugin is restarted.

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 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 vSphere SDK providing a size that does not exactly match a volume size).
• When repeatedly editing a volume and updating its ACL at a high rate, the Edit Volume operation could fail (a subsequent new operation will succeed).
• The Snapshot Job page could require a manual refresh after the job has completed, in order to correctly update the values in the page.
• Cluster/Volume Monitoring tab traffic metrics - and IOPS/bandwidth/latency graphs - are not compatible with Release 3.4.1 (or newer).

Supported Platforms

Lightbits Cluster Version:

• 2.3.16
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.5
• 3.1.2
• 3.2.1
• 3.3.2
• 3.4.1 (see Known Issues)
• 3.4.2 (see Known Issues)

vCenter Version:

• 7.0 U3 and later updates

ESXi Version:

• 7.0 U3 and later updates

Supported Web Browsers

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