Nasuni 7.9.12 and Earlier

Nasuni 7.9.12

Released December 6, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 14847: Addressed Samba vulnerabilities CVE-2017-14746 and CVE-2017-15275.

• Issue 14859: Addressed INTEL-SA-00086 management engine vulnerability for NF-60. Other hardware Filers are not affected.

Nasuni 7.9.11

Released October 30, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 14207: Added new configuration parameters for tuning performance of snapshot retention.

• Issue 14367: Fixed string encoding issue when looking up users and groups in share configuration.

• Issue 14199: Fixed issue that prevented files in directories with Global Locking enabled from pushing to cloud in certain error cases.

• Issue 14113: Fixed issue that allowed shares to be created with no name.

Nasuni 7.9.10

Released October 3, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13720: Decrease frequency of alert when nearing account capacity limit.

• Issue 14118: Fixed GnuPG vulnerability CVE-2017-7526.

• Issue 14330: Fixed issue where file contents could be incorrect in cache after downloading deduped file chunk from cloud.

• Issue 14349: Fixed Samba vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12163, CVE-2017-12150, CVE-2017-12151.

Nasuni 7.9.8

Released August 31, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 14180: Support cross-realm trusts in LDAP configurations.

Nasuni 7.9.7

Released August 17, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13860: Nasuni will now prevent DDNS record deletion by default

• Issue 13933: Fixed issue with serial number and authorization code entry during initial setup

• Issue 14016: Improved performance of snapshot prune process for more efficient use of cloud capacity

• Issue 14086: Fixed issue where NMC Email Subscriptions are not selectable

• Issue 14093: Fixed issue with network timeouts when connecting to Azure

• Issue 14099: Improved validation of directory names in Web Access to prevent name mangling

• Issue 14136: Fixed issue with incorrect permissions after saving standalone Revit files

• Issue 14177: Fixed issue where memory usage spike during Web Access document preview could case a reboot

Nasuni 7.9.6

Released July 31, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13392: Improved alerts when appliance has unprotected data.

• Issue 13442: Added support for enforcing minimum SMB protocol version.

• Issue 13468: Fixed issue where AD join hangs trying to update DNS.

• Issue 13568: Enable SMB leasing by default.

• Issue 13570: Fixed issue where SNMP service fails to start on NMC.

• Issue 13826: Improved disk utilization performance on volumes with infinite snapshot retention.

• Issue 13916: Fixed issue with "Unknown error" when initiating Side Load service from NMC.

• Issue 13964: Fixed error downloading CSV from unprotected files in the NMC.

• Issue 13981: Fixed issue with parsing of HTTP responses for improved proxy server support.

• Issue 14010: Fixed issue with handling of bucket create responses from IBM Cleversafe.

• Issue 14046: Fixed issue with bringing metadata containing control characters into cache.

Nasuni 7.9.5

Released July 17, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 14094: Samba vulnerability CVE-2017-11103.

Nasuni 7.9.4

Released June 30, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13791: Expanded UID and GID ranges allowed when configuring LDAP.

• Issue 13941: Fixed issue where error is returned in LDAP group search.

• Issue 13739: Fixed issue that caused snapshot alerts to be generated unnecessarily.

• Issue 13974: Fixed issue preventing Revit Family files from saving properly.

• Issue 13834: Fixed issue preventing updated software from installing during disaster recovery process.

• Issue 13996: Fixed memory leak when writing globally locked files.

Nasuni 7.9.3

Released June 13, 2017

Resolved Issue

• Issue 13987: Fixed issue where files would occasionally not sync to remote Filers

Nasuni 7.9.2

Released May 24, 2017

Resolved Issue

• Issue 13781: Fixed Samba vulnerability CVE-2017-7494

Nasuni 7.9.1

Released May 11, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13702: Improved snapshot multi-threading.

• Issue 13635: Reduced time of snapshot processing.

Nasuni 7.9

Released May 3, 2017

New Features and Updates

• Improved Multi-Site Data Propagation – Snapshots will now be processed in smaller pieces referred to as directory shards rather than the whole volume at once. This allows the shards to be processed in parallel, reducing total snapshot processing time in some cases. This will allow data to propagate across Filers more quickly. The observed improvement will vary depending on each customer’s configuration.

• Scalable VM Caches – Virtual Filer caches will now be able to span multiple local devices allowing customers to create Filers of virtually unlimited cache size. Once the devices are available to the VM, please contact support to configure the VM to allow them to join the cache.

• Issue 12686: Added support for Azure regions West US 2 and West Central US.

• Issue 12748: Added support for S3 authentication with IBM COS.

• Issue 13059: Added support for AWS Canada (Central) region.

• Issue 13077: Added support for AWS EU (London) region.

• Issue 13165: Added the ability to prevent CIFS shares from being browsable by non-authenticated clients with a new a "Restrict Anonymous" CIFS share option. Anonymous browsing is sometimes reported by vulnerability scanners as ‘Null Sessions’.

• Issue 13225: NMC will now clean up Info level notifications that are not ‘sticky’ or ‘urgent’ after 7 days to reduce unnecessary notifications.

• Issue 13403: Added support for HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) which enforces encrypted HTTP (https) connections to TLS enabled ports.

• The underlying OS was upgraded resulting in the resolution of the following CVEs: CVE-2016-0736, CVE-2016-2161, CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-7163, CVE-2016-7426, CVE-2016-7429, CVE-2016-7433, CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2016-8630, CVE-2016-8650, CVE-2016-8655, CVE-2016-8743, CVE-2016-9083, CVE-2016-9084, CVE-2016-9310, CVE-2016-9311, CVE-2016-9573, CVE-2016-9675, CVE-2016-9793, CVE-2017-2590, CVE-2017-2616, CVE-2017-2618, CVE-2017-2636, CVE-2017-3135, CVE-2017-3157, CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-6074. This is a complete list for the OS, not all affected Nasuni.

Known Issues and Limitations

• For scalable VM caches, once the additional devices are available to the VM, please contact support to configure the VM to allow them to join the cache.

Documentation Changes

• Scalable VM Caches

Resolved Issues

• Issue 12461: Resolved issue where portmapper and NFS service was running when no NFS exports were added.

• Issue 12492: Raised the minimum version of ESXi supported by VMWare Filers to ESXi v5.5.

• Issue 12512: Resolved issue where occasionally the wizard updates page shows no updates available, when in fact updates are available and hitting continue then applies the updates and reboots the Filer.

• Issue 13007: Added the ability to configure ‘Hide Ownership in Listings’ for FTP at the root level of a volume.

• Issue 13086: Resolved issue where certain cloud object delete errors were not detected resulting in deleted data left in the cloud object store.

• Issue 13069: Resolved issue where escrow status of keys was not being displayed properly in the NMC.

• Issue 13129: Resolved issue where FTP users could not see files they have access to if “Hide Unreadable” is set for the share.

• Issue 13134: Resolved permission related issues preventing some users from created shared links as well as the audit issue from the first instance of the fix to this (Issue 13279 in Nasuni 7.7.5).

• Issue 13159: Resolved issue where serialized decryption operations could degrade cloud download performance.

• Issue 13168: Resolved reported issue where the TLS communication with Azure Service Bus was not configured to validate certificates.

• Issue 13169: Addressed reported Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability on certain NMC and Filer UI management pages.

• Issue 13170: Resolve reported CSRF vulnerabilities in the Filer UI.

• Issue 13171: Addressed reported improper Cookie settings on certain NMC and Filer UI management pages.

• Issue 13332: Applied an OpenSSL security update resolving CVE-2016-8610 and CVE-2017-3731.

• Issue 13334: Applied kernel security update resolving CVE-2017-6074.

• Issue 13349: Applied Samba security update resolving CVE-2017-2619.

• Issue 13356: Reduced ‘time went backwards on server’ message level from alert to a warning and added additional logging details.

• Issue 13364: Improved Revit data transfer performance under Advanced Global Locking when many directories are set for Advanced GL.

• Issue 13410: Fixed condition where an internal error can cause snapshots to be blocked.

• Issue 13495: Resolved issue where files with a single quotation mark in their name can cause cloud upload to get stuck.

• Issue 13560: Added DNS re-registration capability for Dynamic DNS environments. Please contact support to enable.

• Issue 13559: Resolved issue which could cause snapshot retention policy failure.

Nasuni 7.8.6

Released May 24, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13795: Fixed Samba vulnerability CVE-2017-7494

• Issue 13517: Fix snapshot device lockup that could cause a reboot

Nasuni Filer 7.8.4

Released Thursday, April 20, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13313: Reduced memory consumption for filesystem process when a volume has a large number of versions and no snapshot retention policy set.

• Issue 13546: Added basic support for static routes. Please contact Nasuni Technical Support if this is needed.

• Issue 13534: Certified clevOS 3.8.3 private cloud.

• Issue 13554: Allowed scheduling or disabling of SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) disk tests.

Nasuni Filer 7.8.3

Released Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Resolved Issue

• Issue 13437: Fixed deadlock reading license that would cause performance issues.

Nasuni Filer 7.8.2

Released Thursday, March 16, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13178: Fixed deadlock reading license that would cause performance issues.

• Issue 13288: Fixed Samba issue that caused random SIDs to be mapped. This would cause users to intermittently lose access to folders that they should be able to access.

• Issue 13302: Fixed issue when NMC Active Directory rejoin fails because the NMC is attempting to reset volume permissions.

• Issue 13335: Mitigation for kernel “use after free” issue (CVE-2017-6074).

• Issue 13340: Regression in v7.8 around krb5.conf “dns_lookup_kdc” option

• Issue 13363: Allow file uploads larger than 2GB via Web Access. Please contact Nasuni Customer Support if this option is needed.

• Issue 13372: Added newline after read list and write list in smb.conf.

Nasuni Filer 7.8.1

Released Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13294: Fixed issue where the SNMP agent would not start due to an unexpected time format

• Issue 13300: Shared links no longer will fail to be created for directories in which user does not have write access. As a result of this fix, file access using shared links will no longer be audited. This will be fixed in a future release.

• Issue 13285: Updated libtiff library for latest security fixes

Nasuni Filer 7.8

Released February 9, 2017

New Features and Updates

• LDAP is now supported for authentication and access control.

• NFS v4 encrypted connections are now supported.

• OS7 Filers are updated to the latest version of the base OS for greater stability.

• Issue 12330: Amazon AMI Filer and NMC images have been changed from PV to HVM type per new Amazon recommendations.

• Issue 12729: Added support for Azure UK South and UK West regions.

Known Issues and Limitations

• LDAP is in Early Access only. Please contact Customer Support if you wish to use LDAP.

• LDAP is not supported for Nasuni Mobile access on any of the clients.

• LDAP is not supported on OS2 Filers.

• LDAP Filers cannot share volumes with AD joined Filers and vice versa.

• LDAP support requires Kerberos.

Documentation Changes

• Changed recommendations for selecting EC2 instances that have the appropriate resources for Nasuni Filers: Virtualization Guide for EC2

Resolved Issues

• Issue 11876: Added “Perform Restores to Any Location” permission to control who can restore data to locations other than its original location.

• Issue 12103: Fixed condition where a COW overflow can lock up the Filer.

• Issue 12218: Fixed condition where NFS service fails to start if a hostname in the Allowed Hosts table cannot be resolved.

• Issue 12362: Fixed condition where while using GFL, new files with the same name can be created on different Filers and one will be overwritten.

• Issue 12548: Fixed condition where AD rejoins fail if a sub-domain is disabled before a Filer configuration is imported to another Filer and the sub-domain is enabled on the second Filer.

• Issue 13012: Fixed issue where SMB Encryption setting in NMC does not reflect the actual application of SMB Encryption to the share.

• Issue 13016: Fixed issue where NMC email alerts were not sent.

• Issue 13048: Fixed filtering on CIFS File Locks table to allow filtering to include the ‘\’ at the beginning of a path.

• Issue 13082: Fixed condition where volume retention did not properly prune old versions on Cleversafe hosted volumes.

• Issue 13105: Fixed issue where messages that take a long time to process can cause NMC performance to degrade.

• Issue 13124: Fixed condition in Web Access where files from a shared link cannot be downloaded when multi-selected or previewed.

• Issue 13135: Set Quota pop-up dialogue displayed usage will now properly match content size shown in Volume Properties.

• Issue 13167: Removed support for TLS v1.0 due to several security weaknesses. TLS v1.1 and v1.2 both continue to be supported. As a result, IE10 will no longer be a supported browser.

• Issue 13255: Fixed condition where under certain circumstances SAMBA logs were set to debug after AD rejoin causing reduced Filer performance.

Nasuni Filer 7.7.5

Released Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13205: Addressed issue with Filers accessing certain trusted domains causing users to be denied access after upgrading to 7.7.

• Issue 13234: Fixed issue where under certain conditions file security properties cannot be displayed after 7.7 upgrade.

• Issue 13279: Shared links no longer will fail to be created for directories in which user does not have write access. As a result of this fix, file access using shared links will no longer be audited. This will be fixed in a future release.

Nasuni Filer 7.7.3

Released Wednesday, January 20, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13151: Fixed issue where, after upgrading to 7.7, autocache is enabled automatically on certain volumes.

• Issue 13152: Fixed issue where, after upgrading to 7.7, quota rules behave incorrectly and free space is incorrectly reported by Windows.

• Issue 13156: Fixed issue where, after upgrading to 7.7, snapshot alerts are generated every three hours instead of daily.

Nasuni Filer 7.7.2

Released Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Resolved Issues

• Issue 13107: Fixed problem in 7.7.1 authenticating users to a domain trusted by the Filer's domain.

Nasuni Filer 7.7.1

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Resolved Issues

• Issue 12260: Forward time adjustments will no longer cause occasional Filer reboots.

• Issue 12848: NMC will no longer return with an error when creating administrative users whose passwords generate malformed hashes.

• Issue 12940: Samba has been updated to version 4.4.7, which includes many updates and fixes.

• Issue 12997: FTP clients will now be listed in NMC for OS7 Filers.

• Issue 13064: Addressed (CVE-2016-2126) – Flaws in Kerberos PAC validation can trigger privilege elevation.

Nasuni Filer 7.7 Early Availability

Released Wednesday, December 7, 2016

New Features and Updates

• Nasuni Web Access can now preview many more file formats including major office document formats. Previews supported include the following file types: txt, rtf, doc, docx, dotx, dot, ppt, pptx, pot, potx, xls, xlsx, xlt, xltx, csv, odg, ods, odp, odt, ott, otp, ots, otg

• Nasuni Web Access preview allows the user to browse back in time through previous versions of the document being previewed.

• Samba has been updated to version 4.4, which includes many updates and fixes.

• The MIT Kerberos library has replaced the previously used Kerberos library for greater compatibility with Active Directory.

• Filer software can now be field reinstalled, allowing a complete reset to factory install as well as the possibility for upgrading OS2 Filers to OS7 for Filers supported by OS7. All Nasuni Filers manufactured after mid-2014 are capable of field reinstall. To allow earlier machines to field reinstall, please contact support for assistance.

• Issue 12939: SMB3 Encryption is now supported. On the Edit CIFS share page, SMB3 Encryption can be set to optional, desired, or required.

• Issue 12463: Updated RAID controller configuration may improve read performance on Dell Filers.

• Issue 12462: Added support for AWS Mumbai region.

• Issue 12916: Added support for AWS Ohio region.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Document preview in Web Access is only available on OS7 Filers.

• Issue 12860: The Filer generates Web previews serially, so if many users are attempting to preview documents simultaneously they might experience delays or timeouts.

Resolved Issues

• Issue 9447: Improved snap/sync performance for Volumes with more than 200,000 versions.

• Issue 11447: Upgraded ClamAV engine now properly handles msxml files generated by MS Office.

• Issue 12109: Fixed a condition where NFS permissions did not function properly on CIFS/NFS multiprotocol volumes.

• Issue 12340: Fixed problem disconnecting a volume connected to many Filers.

• Issue 12284: Fixed a condition where the Filer domain join fails when DNS returns a malformed TXT record for _kerberos. On OS7, these TXT records are no longer accessed. Contact Support for an OS2 Filer experiencing problems with _kerberos DNS TXT records.

• Issue 12359: In Web Access, the shared items page is now scrollable when the number of items listed is more than the viewable area allows.

• Issue 12434: Users with large records in AD no longer have problems connecting.

• Issue 12495: Fixed issue where OpenPGP keys formatted with an incomplete private key cause an NMC GUI error on import.

• Issue 12541: On the Filer Platform Details page, RAID disk or power supply error alert text and Filer name are now highlighted.

• Issue 12603: Addressed (CVE-2016-5696) – RFC-5961 - design/implementation flaws lead to TCP session bugs.

• Issue 12709: Fixed condition where failover to secondary DNS is not done correctly causing Filer to fail authenticating users or joining AD.

• Issue 12837: Fixed AD join failures and disconnections due to Kerberos compatibility issues.

• Issue 12906: Fixed problem where a user removed from a domain group is still allowed to login under certain conditions.

• Issue 12913: Encryption keys smaller than 2048 bits will no longer be imported.

• Issue 12920: Fixed condition that caused some vulnerability scans of Nasuni Web Access to report a Clickjacking vulnerability.

• Issue 12921: Changed Filer ‘Generation’ display to more accurately reflect Filer age and class. Previously, Filer generations were determined relative to the first version of that model. Now they are directly related to the Dell model generation consistently reflecting their technology age and class. The NF-50 generation is based on equivalent Dell generations.

• Issue 12938: Fixed a condition where alert emails will not be sent with certain combinations of console group permissions.

• Issue 12958: Nasuni Filer Hyper-V VM now works on Windows Server 2012 R2

• Issue 12965: Fixed a condition where users/groups edited in NMC while a Filer is joining NMC will not get copied to the Filer.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.11

Released Wednesday, November 2, 2016

• Issue 12453: Fixed an issue that causes the connect/disconnect volume dialogue in NMC to turn blank when clicking on a check box for a volume with many connected Filers.

• Issue 12688: The preparedr command will now properly inform the user if an error occurs that prevents the Filer from being ready for a DR operation.

• Issue 12757: Sideload now handles file names with malformed Unicode character escape sequences.

• Issue 12776: Fixed an issue that occasionally can cause the Filer UI and management via NMC to become unavailable.

• Issue 12783: Fixed an issue where duplicate entries in the Allowed Hosts field causes NFS exports to become unavailable.

• Issue 12897: Fixed errors when attempting to save a file to a share from Excel on OSX with Global Locking enabled.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.10

Released Wednesday, October 26, 2016

• Issue 12863: Properly handle very large AV signature updates on OS2 Filers.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.9

Released Wednesday, October 5, 2016

• Issue 12297: After performing a DR operation, Nasuni Web branding is now restored.

• Issue 12311: Fixed a condition where previous versions of files appear as a stub in the .nasuni snapshot directory, making them unavailable.

• Issue 12351: The minimum required memory for virtual machine instances of Nasuni Filers and Nasuni Management Console has been raised to 8GB, which has also been changed in the documentation. For existing Filers, the level of VM memory that generates an alert that there is not enough memory has been raised from 6GB to 8GB. For NMC VMs, the same alert threshold has been changed from 4GB to 6GB. The minimum memory with which Nasuni Filers and NMC are allowed to start up is unchanged at 4GB and 2GB, respectively, in order to not disrupt any existing VMs until additional memory can be made available to them.

• Issue 12496: Fixed certain cases where UniFS process memory grows and causes a disruption in Filer service.

• Issue 12517: For newly deployed Filers, automatic update to new versions of the Nasuni OS is now off by default. Existing Filers are not changed.

• Issue 12619: Fixed a condition where many repeated uses of the Nasuni Web login API to login as the same user could cause the web service to fail.

• Issue 12751: Nasuni is now qualified with Cleversafe version 3.8.2.

• Issue 12826: Fixed a condition that can cause a newly installed Filer to be unable to generate data access keys.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.8

Released Thursday, September 15, 2016

• bug 12005: Added integrated support for Azure regions Australia East and Australia Southeast.

• bug 12293: Added integrated support for Azure regions Canada Central and Canada East.

• bug 12474: Fixed an issue that prevented NMC network charts from updating correctly.

• bug 12628: Modified the accuracy of the AD disconnected notification.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.7

Released Wednesday, August 17, 2016

• bug 12486: Modifications to locking algorithm resulting in reduced Global Lock traffic to lock server.

• bug 12522: Improved efficiency of lock caching when Optimized Global Locking is enabled.

• bug 12566: Improvements to 'preparedr' command required for successful Sideload.

• bug 12573: Fixed an issue that prevented .snapshot access when Advanced Global Locking is enabled.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.6

Released Wednesday, August 3, 2016

• bug 12458: Samba vulnerability CVE-2016-2119, 4.2.14 release notes.

• bug 12459: Fixed an issue which incorrectly allowed users to modify Global Locking settings on folders inheriting Advanced settings.

• bug 12478: Fixed an issue resulting in slow logins via Web Access.

• bug 12479: Improved Filer smbclient compatibility.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.5

Released Wednesday, July 13, 2016

• Improve resilience of the Filer to recover from NOC events.

• Properly report which drive bay is failing SMART testing on the NF-50.

• Improved reliability when attempting to rename a folder with open files.

• Include 64-bit high capacity (HC) SNMP network counters.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.4

Released Friday, July 1, 2016

• Properly handle recent Microsoft changes made to Azure Service Bus.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.3

Released Thursday, June 23, 2016

• Fixed an issue that prevented some debug information from being sent to Nasuni.

• Fixed an AV issue that resulted in snapshots being taken more frequently than necessary.

• Improved efficiency of handling simultaneous merge and Global Lock events.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.2

Released Monday, June 13, 2016

• Fixed an issue where snapshot alert was sent incorrectly.

• Fixed an issue in global locking that could prevent some files from being visible.

• Fixed an issue that prevented all fields of the audit log from populating on OS2.

• Improved upgrade process for hardware that was originally imaged in 2015.

Nasuni Filer 7.5.1

Released Wednesday, June 1, 2016

• Fixed a rare issue that prevented an upgrade from completing.

• Fixed an issue that prevented volume sync.

Nasuni Filer 7.5

Released Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

The Nasuni Service 7.5 adds several manageability improvements, increased application compatibility when using Global Locking, and other performance improvements.

In addition to the enhancements above, there are many other fixes and improvements in Nasuni's 7.5 release.

Note: If a Nasuni Filer is joined to a Nasuni Management Console, we recommend updating the Nasuni Management Console software before updating the Nasuni Filer software.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Join the conversation! Visit our customer forum.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Update Details

• Accessibility:

  • Added Mobile API support for external link creation.

  • Users can now set hostname in external links.

  • Improved compatibility with CIFS byte-range lock requests when using Global Locking.

  • Fixed issue in which a Filer that was joined to a child domain could not see other forests that have 2-way transitive trusts.

• Manageability:

  • Fixed issue with disabling NMC management on a Filer when internet connectivity was lost.

  • The AWS Asia Pacific region is now supported.

  • Cleversafe release 3.7.2.67 has been qualified.

  • A new Unprotected Files page displays files and most recent access time for files unprotected in the local cache.

  • Common information previously available via SNMP is also available in Nasuni Management Console:

    • CPU Usage

    • Memory Usage

    • Network Traffic

  • Added a System Alerts page to Nasuni Management Console, so that customers can now receive alerts:

    • When a snapshot has not occurred in a configurable number of days.

    • When CPU or Memory usage has reached a specific utilization for a configurable number of minutes.

  • Customers can configure a System Alert to indicate a snapshot has not occurred.

  • A number of Multi-Schedule pages (QoS, Quota Reporting) now have a common UI look and feel.

  • Added ability to modify Global Locking settings in Filer UI when under NMC management.

  • The reboot notification now includes the user who requested the reboot.

  • The Email Alerts system was overhauled so that alerts can now be individually configured for Users and Groups.

  • Added Cloud Capacity charts for accounts with customer-provided cloud credentials.

• Reliability:

  • FTP can now resume uploads if interrupted.

  • Fixed issue preventing creation of symlinks from OSX clients when asynchronous I/O was enabled on a share.

  • Improved accuracy of Network Graphs when using a 10GiB network.

  • Fixed issue in which special characters prevented downloads of folders.

  • Fixed reliability of servicebuscheck console command for checking NMC connectivity.

  • Improved tolerance of network errors when sending large files to the cloud.

  • Improved compatibility with certain network load balancers.

  • Fixed reliability of Global Locking when CIFS clients are disconnected from the CIFS status page.

  • Fixed issue in which Snapshot search did not return results when current folder is selected.

  • Improved reliability and error reporting when joining Active Directory.

  • Fixed issue with Global Locking configuration on folders with certain Unicode characters.

  • Improved reliability of Download Folder in the Web Access interface when the path contains % characters.

  • Fixed issue in which Proxy settings changes did not take effect until reboot.

  • Fixed issue that caused the Remote Support page to reload while editing fields.

  • Improved reliability of path selection when editing an existing share on the shares page.

  • Fixed performance problem in autocache and Global Locking that resulted in client I/O delays.

  • Fixed an issue where the watchdog in rare situations could cause the Filer to reboot during COW overflow.

  • Fixed an issue where multiple image upload in Web Access caused overwrites.

  • Improved reliability when attempting to rename a folder with open files.

  • Fixed a slow memory leak when sending objects to the cloud.

  • Implemented a change that prevents Domain Users managed within the Nasuni UI (Filer and NMC) from incorrectly becoming members of groups that are intended to grant Native Users access to the storage system.

• Security:

  • Removed Configuration tab for users who lack permissions to view/edit items.

  • Improved reliability of ICMP filtering support in custom firewall rules.

  • Fixed issue with FTP "allow from" firewall rules not working correctly for subnet masks.

  • Feedback on password strength has been added to the following pages:

    • Installation Wizard

    • Filer Users > Add User

    • Filer Users > Edit User

• Performance:

  • Improved performance when sending metadata to the cloud.

  • Improved performance with client truncate operations.

  • Improved fairness of background lock tasks when using Global Locking.

  • Tuned network usage of snapshot retention background processes.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Nasuni Filer proxy settings updated from the NMC do not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements might render differently on different browsers.

• Audit logging might not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks for security reasons.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share, and might cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes, the traverse permission does not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Nasuni Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5, even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link, not the hard link acted upon.

• Broken symlinks cannot be restored from volume snapshots.

• With hard links, auditing might audit actions on any one of the names linking to the same file.

• For both the Nasuni Filer and the NMC, Internet Explorer 9 and later are supported. IE8 and earlier are no longer supported.

• Nasuni's SMB interface does not support Alternate Data Streams (ADS)/Forks. If you have legacy data from OS X that must be migrated, please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If using OS X to access the Nasuni Filer via CIFS/SMB, we recommend OS X Mavericks (10.9) (or later) to avoid odd client behavior.

• The Data Migration Service does not maintain sparseness of sparse files when migrated.

• There is a known issue with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 11 that can cause the browser to crash when using the UI in certain situations. If this occurs, install any available Windows security updates or update to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

• Switching Global Locking modes while the system is active can lead to broken or stuck file locks.

• Microsoft has a known problem where they might sometimes incorrectly report that a file is locked by another user. Contact Nasuni Customer Support if you need help working around the problem.

• Nasuni CIFS shares do not support storing Microsoft Hyper-V system files using SMB 3 connections.

• NFSv4 is not available on all Filers. If you need NFSv4 and cannot enable it, please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If you have local users with the same names as Active Directory users, you must login with your Active Directory domain as well as your username to login with the AD user, i.e. DOMAIN\USER.

• Windows shortcuts cannot be used in the Web Access interface.

• Some uploads from Android devices via Web Access may have "tmp_" prepended on the resulting filename.

• Chrome on Android devices does not like to download from sites with a self-signed SSL certificate. Install a signed certificate on the Filer to avoid this problem.

• Restoring from a snapshot may fail due to permission incompatibility when a snapshot was created when the volume was in a less restrictive permission mode than is currently configured.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.13

Released Monday, May 9th, 2016

• Fixed an issue that prevented the sideload process from restarting after unplanned reboot.

• Fixed an issue that caused exceedingly long volume sync times.

• Fixed a memory leak that potentially affects communication over a deficient network connection.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.12

Released Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

• Security fixes for CVE-2015-5370, CVE-2016-2110, CVE-2016-2111, CVE-2016-2112, CVE-2016-2113, CVE-2016-2114, CVE-2016-2115, and CVE-2016-2118 (aka "Badlock").

• Fixed a memory leak that could affect communication with an NMC.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.11

Released Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

• Security fix for CVE-2015-7560: Incorrect ACL get/set allowed on symlink path for SMB shares

• Fix the following issues when 'Enhanced Support for Mac OS X' is enabled:

  • OS X file tags not working

  • Unable to save Excel files

  • MS Office applications incorrectly opened as read only

  • Files seem to disappear in Finder

Known issues and limitations

• Microsoft Word 2011 on a Mac OS X client has an issue that can prevent users from opening files or saving changes. This issue is triggered by some CIFS/SMB share names. This can be avoided by using Word 2016 for Mac OS X, or by renaming the share.

• You cannot enable or disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.10

Released Tuesday, February 22nd, 2016

• Security fix for CVE-2015-7547: Stack-based buffer overflow in glibc DNS resolver

Known issues and limitations

• When enhanced OS X support is enabled for performance, tags can't be set in Finder.

• You cannot enable or disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.9

Released Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

• Fixed an issue where a native user was unable to access a directory via SMB.

• Fixed an issue where restored directory would not sync to other filers.

• Fix issue where attempting to download .xlsx files via Browser Based Access resulted in an unknown error.

• Resolved problem with restoring a file into a locked directory.

Known issues and limitations

• When enhanced OS X support is enabled for performance, tags can't be set in Finder.

• You cannot enable or disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.8

Released Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

• Address an issue which results in slow data sync performance over time.

Known issues and limitations

• When enhanced OS X support is enabled for performance, tags can't be set in Finder.

• You cannot enable or disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.5

Released Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

• Fix issue with Nasuni Mobile users not properly remaining logged in.

• Fixed an issue preventing users from including the domain name when logging in with Nasuni Mobile.

• Fixed sort function for the Volume and Filer columns of the Shares page on NMC.

• Fix display when refreshing a serial number on Serial Numbers page.

• Fixed an issue where a needed antivirus scan could delay the unlock of a globally locked file.

• Fix counts in file restore notifications.

Known issues and limitations

• When enhanced OS X support is enabled for performance, tags can't be set in Finder.

• You cannot enable or disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.4

Released Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

• Fix file preview with shared links that require login.

• Fixed an issue accessing shared internal links for Web Access created prior to 7.2.

• Fixed an issue causing Nasuni Mobile clients (iOS, Android, Desktop) to have to re-authenticate sooner than the configured session expiration period.

• Fixed an issue causing Nasuni Mobile clients (iOS, Android, Desktop) to have trouble logging in.

• Fixed a problem with some Filers not preserving remote support settings accross reboot.

• Fixed an issue slowing down snapshots on files >1GiB.

• Fix external link sharing of user home directories.

• Fixed a problem with changing permissions (ACLs) due to the snapshot process.

• ! (exclamation point) is now allowed in share names.

Known issues and limitations

• When enhanced OS X support is enabled for performance tags cant be set in Finder.

• You cannot disable Global Locking if a regular snapshot is in progress.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.3

Released Monday, November 30th, 2015

• Speed up recovery during a snapshot overflow.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.2

Released Friday, November 20th, 2015

• Fixed a race condition that could cause files to disappear from the file system with global locking enabled.

• Fixed an issue that could prevent showing all CIFS clients in the CIFS status page.

• Fixed an issue where NOC connections on intermittent networks can hang for a long time.

• Fixed an improper indication of whether an encryption key is escrowed or not.

• Fixed an issue where the volume name would not show correctly in NMC notifications.

• Fixed an issue that could prevent a join to Active Directory in certain environments.

• Fixed an issue showing CIFS file locks for paths with unicode characters.

Nasuni Filer 7.2.1

Released Thursday, November 19th, 2015

• This release provides updated iDRAC firmware for Dell-based Filers to resolve a security issue. Per Dell, if you are using the iDRAC feature you should apply this update soon. Note that firmware updates are not automatically applied. To install the updated firmware use the Service Menu from the console and run "update_bmc_firmware". Please contact Nasuni Customer Support if you need assistance in applying this update.

• Fixed an issue with unicode path handling for the Sideload process.

Nasuni Filer 7.2

Released Thursday, November 12th, 2015

The Nasuni Service 7.2 adds a fresh look to the Web Access interface, and introduces a customer-brandable element and adds external link sharing for your organization.

In addition to the enhancements above, there are many other fixes and improvements in Nasuni's 7.2 release.

Note: If a Nasuni Filer is joined to a Nasuni Management Console, we recommend updating the Nasuni Management Console software before updating the Nasuni Filer software.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Join the conversation! Visit our customer forum.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Update Details

• Accessibility:

  • The Web Access interface to files has been significantly updated:

    • It is now a responsive single-page design supporting multiple different device screen sizes and formats. The display will vary the number of elements depending on your screen/window size.

    • Breadcrumbs are now shown and the Back button works as expected.

    • Files no longer download immediately when accessed via shared URL. A preview (if available) is shown and the file can be downloaded from the landing page.

    • Listings may now be sorted by any of the columns.

    • The Web Access interface may now be customized (logo, color choices) by the customer to make a customer-branded Web Access portal for their organization.

    • Existing files may now be overwritten on upload.

    • Multiple files may be downloaded at once (delivered as a .zip file).

    • Uploads are significantly faster.

    • Previous versions are now available to end users in the Web Access interface. Note that previous versions adds overhead to Filer operations.

    • Long file names can now be fully shown in the information panel.

  • Inter-company file sharing is now supported using shared URL links:

    • Disabled by default on a share, but can be enabled by the administrator.

    • Both files and directories can be shared.

    • Directories may be shared read-only or read/write to allow uploads.

    • The administrator has multiple options in limiting shared link expiration periods, access modes, cancelling shared items, and setting password requirements.

  • A new advanced share setting has been added to provide enhanced compatibility for OS X clients.

  • NFSv4 is now a supported protocol.

• Manageability:

  • The SSL management area has had several improvements including allowing you to upload your own certificates, download certificates, and support for more certificate formats.

  • Customers can deploy additional Filers in an Active Directory environment that supports Active Directory Unix Extensions without assistance from Nasuni support. Contact Nasuni Customer Support to help configure the initial Filer to use Active Directory Unix Extensions.

  • You may now deny access to specific shares for improved share permission control.

  • Windows Server 2012 domain controllers with Resource SID compression enabled are now supported.

  • Hyper-V's Cluster Validation wizard now passes successfully when run against Filer iSCSI volumes.

  • NMC charts are now properly updated for data growth after volume deletion.

  • Restore notifications now show the proper count of files restored.

  • Fixed problem of not properly showing degraded second power supply.

  • Fast Restore has been improved to be available in more situations.

  • Directories now properly Fast Restore when permitted.

  • Fixed an issue where an Active Directory user could not log into NMC if the Pre-Win2k field did not match the Active Directory group name.

  • The Filer will now always send an email alert when migrations complete.

  • Fixed an issue propagating user/group access from NMC to Filers under certain circumstances.

  • Auditing now behaves correctly when asynchronous I/O is enabled on a share.

  • An alert will be raised when the SSL certificate is about to expire on NMC or Filer.

  • Fixed migration names disappearing when migration sources are added.

  • New virtual appliances on ESXi and Hyper-V have a default cache size of 250GiB.

  • NMC Serial Numbers page now works properly with >1,000 serial numbers (!).

  • Nasuni's virtual appliances have been qualified on VMware 6.0.

  • Built-in permission group IDs are now guaranteed to be consistent across Filers.

• Reliability:

  • Added protection to prevent operating system volumes from filling up from internal logs/events.

  • Fixed an issue where Snapshot Retention could cause the Filer to reboot in some situations.

  • Improved Filer's behavior with jumbo frames on certain types of networks.

  • Improved reliability of Filer's connection to cloud storage on certain types of networks.

  • Fixed reliability of servicebuscheck console command for checking NMC connectivity.

  • Fixed NMC's behavior behind a proxy when login includes a backslash.

  • Fixed permission issues for files after the local user who owns the file is deleted.

  • Improved Filer's behavior on networks that cause intermittent connection issues.

  • Fixed a reboot issue when a data migration source becomes unresponsive.

• Security:

  • New Nasuni self-signed initial certificates will use SHA-256 (was SHA-1).

  • The "Perform File Restores/Access Versions" permission no longer allows a user to download a file from the File Browser.

  • Fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Nasuni Web Access.

• Performance:

  • OS X directory browsing is significantly improved when using the "Enhanced Support for Mac OS X" advanced share setting.

  • Improved the performance of sending large files to the cloud.

  • Improved performance for sequential reads of large files from the cloud.

  • SMBv3 is now enabled for new Filers by default for improved performance and compatibility.

  • Asynchronous I/O is now enabled for new shares by default for improved performance for certain workloads.

  • Improved performance of Nasuni's advanced Global Locking mode for certain workloads including those generated by the Revit and Geopak applications as well as mixed protocol scenarios.

  • Nasuni's Global Lock is now much more efficient as the number of files being locked/unlocked increases.

  • Significant improvements in the speed of permission propagation changes in the file system.

  • Reduced bandwidth use by background tasks that access cloud storage.

  • Improved snapshot performance after Robocopy operations due to redundant attribute and time changes.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Nasuni Filer proxy settings updated from the NMC do not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements might render differently on different browsers.

• Audit logging might not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks for security reasons.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share, and might cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes, the traverse permission does not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Nasuni Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5, even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link, not the hard link acted upon.

• Broken symlinks cannot be restored from volume snapshots.

• With hard links, auditing might audit actions on any one of the names linking to the same file.

• For both the Nasuni Filer and the NMC, Internet Explorer 9 and later are supported. IE8 and earlier are no longer supported.

• Nasuni's SMB interface does not support Alternate Data Streams (ADS)/Forks. If you have legacy data from OS X that must be migrated, please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If using OS X to access the Nasuni Filer via CIFS/SMB, we recommend OS X Mavericks (10.9) (or later) to avoid odd client behavior.

• The Data Migration Service does not maintain sparseness of sparse files when migrated.

• There is a known issue with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 11 that can cause the browser to crash when using the UI in certain situations. If this occurs, install any available Windows security updates or update to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

• Switching Global Locking modes while the system is active can lead to broken or stuck file locks.

• Microsoft has a known problem where they might sometimes incorrectly report that a file is locked by another user. Contact Nasuni Customer Support if you need help working around the problem.

• Nasuni CIFS shares do not support storing Microsoft Hyper-V system files using SMB 3 connections.

• NFSv4 is not available on all Filers. If you need NFSv4 and cannot enable it please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If you have local users with the same names as Active Directory users you must login with your Active Directory domain as well as your username to login with the AD user, i.e. DOMAIN\USER.

• Windows shortcuts can not be used in the Web Access interface.

• Some uploads from Android devices via Web Access may have "tmp_" prepended on the resulting filename.

• Chrome on Android devices does not like to download from sites with a self-signed SSL certificate. Install a signed certificate on the Filer to avoid this problem.

• Restoring from a snapshot may fail due to permission incompatibility when a snapshot was created when the volume was in a less restrictive permission mode than is currently configured.

Nasuni Filer 7.0.4

Released Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

• Improve retry behavior on cloud connection timeouts.

• Fix reboot due to non-responsive data migration source.

• Fix problems booting with a full OS partition.

Nasuni Filer 7.0.3

Released Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

• Security fix in SNMP: CVE-2015-5621.

• Security fixes for SSH (remote support): CVE-2010-5107, CVE-2014-2532, CVE-2014-2653.

• Fix an issue where users cannot access the Shares page in the NMC/Filer UI.

• Correct display of .snapshot access enablement.

• Fix Fast Restore functionality on new volumes.

• Fix reboot/shutdown Filer functions via NMC.

• Restore group-based logins to UI.

• Correct audit logging of NFS as source of traffic when appropriate.

Nasuni Filer 7.0.2

Released Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

• Various fixes in SSL code: CVE-2014-8176, CVE-2015-1789, CVE-2015-1790, CVE-2015-1791, CVE-2015-1792, CVE-2015-3216, and CVE-2015-4000 ("logjam")

• Fixed an issue where Chrome considered the generated Filer/NMC SSL certificates to be obsolete.

• Fixed a rare issue where failure to obtain a Global Lock on a file could lead to the file not being synchronized with the Nasuni service.

• Fixed an issue with Snapshot Retention not completing when traversing deep directory trees and very large files.

• Fix issue with the Remote Support service not starting correctly on new appliances.

• Improved performance of SMB directory operations, most noticeable on larger directories (200K+).

• Fixed an issue with a DNS named entry for a Side Load source.

Nasuni Filer 7.0

Released Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

The Nasuni Service 7.0 adds updated hardware platforms for the Nasuni Filer, and introduces the new capability to transfer cache data from an existing onsite Nasuni Filer to a destination Nasuni Filer.

In addition to the major enhancements above, there are many other fixes and improvements in Nasuni's 7.0 release.

Note: If a Nasuni Filer is joined to a Nasuni Management Console, update the Nasuni Management Console software before updating the Nasuni Filer software.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Update Details

• Accessibility:

  • Added compatibility option for FTP access when accessed through Windows IE or File Explorer.

• Manageability:

  • Side Load Feature: Nasuni now supports transferring cache data from an existing Nasuni Filer after a planned "Disaster Recovery" event. This is normally done when upgrading from one Nasuni Filer to another. Performing a Side Load saves time and the inbound network bandwidth necessary to transfer cache data from the cloud.

  • Fixed an issue about falsely showing large amounts of unprotected data after a snapshot.

  • You can now request the size of a folder and all contents though the Nasuni File Browser.

  • Custom range searches for previous versions in the Nasuni File Browser have been fixed.

  • Corrected file size heuristics reporting under certain cases.

  • Notifications page now has an auto-refresh option.

  • The AWS Frankfurt region is now supported.

  • File Heuristics are now properly cleaned up on volume delete.

  • Snapshot progress is now visible via NMC.

  • Current and queued "Auto Cache" and "Bring into Cache" operations can now be viewed and cancelled.

  • The "servicebuscheck" service menu command now supports proxies.

  • Fixed an issue where "Bring into Cache" could get stuck on large directory trees.

  • Improved method for viewing migration logs to support very large log files.

  • User names are now shown for file locks on the "CIFS Status" page.

  • Fixed UI error around previously scheduled migrations.

  • Fixed an issue where NMC was not saving blocked files/dirs and asynchronous I/O when adding/editing a share.

  • LastPass browser extension no longer causes Active Directory joins to fail.

• Reliability:

  • Fixed stability issue due to excessive local disk use by the "Antivirus Scan" and "Bring into Cache" functions.

  • Corrected an issue where a migration job could get stuck on a bad source file forever.

  • Fixed issue with writing very large files into cache during a snapshot operation.

  • Improved memory usage by internal task manager.

• Security:

  • Fixed permission handling when changed on files under the special .nasuni directory.

  • Fixes for reported vulnerabilities:

    • CVE-2014-3566 (housekeeping, original issue addressed previously)

• Performance:

  • Fixed a rare performance issue causing a Nasuni Filer to appear to "hang" during a prefetch operation.

  • Improved the performance of bringing large files from the cloud.

  • Fixed slow inbound data while running at or near the outbound QoS limit.

  • If all QoS rules are deleted the QoS is now updated immediately.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Nasuni Filer proxy settings updated from the NMC do not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements might render differently on different browsers.

• Audit logging might not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks for security reasons.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share, and might cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Domain local groups do not give users access to CIFS volumes as expected when the Nasuni Filer is joined to a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with Resource SID compression enabled.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes, the traverse permission does not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• Microsoft Azure restarts virtual machines after shutting down the Nasuni Filer or NMC from the UI. To shut down a virtual machine and keep it shut down, please use the PowerShell or the Microsoft Azure management console.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Nasuni Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5, even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link, not the hard link acted upon.

• Broken symlinks cannot be restored from volume snapshots.

• With hard links, auditing might audit actions on any one of the names linking to the same file.

• For both the Nasuni Filer and the NMC, Internet Explorer 9 and later are supported. IE8 and lower are no longer supported.

• Nasuni's SMB interface does not support Alternate Data Streams (ADS)/Forks. If you have legacy data from OS X that must be migrated, please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If using OS X to access the Nasuni Filer via CIFS/SMB, we recommend OS X Mavericks (10.9) (or later) to avoid odd client behavior.

• The Data Migration Service does not maintain sparseness of sparse files when migrated.

• There is a known issue with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 11 that can cause the browser to crash when using the UI in certain situations. If this occurs, install any available Windows security updates or update to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

• Switching Global Locking modes while the system is active can lead to broken or stuck file locks.

• Microsoft has a known problem where they might sometimes incorrectly report that a file is locked by another user. Contact Nasuni Customer Support if you need help working around the problem.

• Nasuni CIFS shares do not support storing Microsoft Hyper-V system files using SMB 3 connections.

Nasuni Filer 6.3.2

Released Thursday June 25th, 2015

• HTTP connection timeouts are now configurable by Nasuni support for networking environments that need different defaults.

Nasuni Filer 6.3.1

Released Tuesday June 2nd, 2015

• You can now enable Global Locking on Multi-protocol (such as SMB & NFS) volumes if needed.

• When enabling iDRAC via the Service Menu, you can now optionally enable the iDRAC Web UI.

• Nasuni Filer to NMC heartbeats have been improved.

• Adjusted "Manage Shares Permission" role to disallow editing of "General CIFS settings".

• Fixed a couple of rare bugs that would stop the Nasuni Filer from completing a snapshot.

• Fixed an issue with users getting an error message while trying to access the Nasuni File Browser.

• Fixed a resource leak when requesting quota or disk usage status from CIFS shares.

• Improved alerting around mixed SED/non-SED configurations.

• Fixed an issue causing restore operations not to restore into the chosen directory.

Nasuni Filer 6.3

Released Thursday, April 30th, 2015

The Nasuni Service 6.3 release adds support for encryption of data at rest (for hardware that supports it), as well as many usability improvements in the Filer and NMC user interfaces that were requested by customers.

In addition to the major enhancements above, there are many other fixes and improvements in Nasuni's 6.3 release.

Note: If a Nasuni Filer is joined to a Nasuni Management Console, update the Nasuni Management Console software before updating the Nasuni Filer software.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Update Details

• Accessibility:

  • Global Locking

    • Nasuni now supports 3 types of locking:

      • Local Filer protocol-compatible locks (highest performance, most compatible)

      • Nasuni Optimized Global Locking (good performance, lowest protocol compatibility, but recommended for most people using Global Locking)

      • Advanced Global Locking (lower performance - not recommended unless needed for specific applications, highest global locking compatibility)

      When Global Locking is enabled for a folder, the "Nasuni Optimized Global Locking" mode is the default. When upgrading from versions prior to 6.3, you will also be set to that level. The only application known to need advanced global locking support is Autodesk's Revit application, when used with Multisite in worksharing mode. If you are using this application with global locking, then please enable the advanced global locking setting on the folder.

  • Nasuni Desktop

    • Nasuni Desktop for Linux is now available for Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise distributions (64 and 32 bits).

• Manageability:

  • Snapshots:

    • A snapshot interval of every 15 minutes is now supported.

    • Improved last snapshot status display for volumes that are performing their first snapshot.

  • Volume management:

    • Improved status reporting when a snapshot cancel is requested.

    • Inherited volume settings are now shown when connecting to a new volume.

    • You may now disable inheritance of some volume settings when connecting to a new volume.

  • Share Management:

    • Fixed sorting by User and Client Name on Filer CIFS Clients page.

    • Disconnect button added when showing CIFS open files and locks. (Note: Still disconnects entire client.)

    • Added hostname and username to connected clients list in CIFS status page.

  • Migration Management:

    • Multiple folders may now be selected at the same time as migration sources.

    • You can now edit a migration when it is not running.

    • You can now make a copy of a migration job.

    • You can now create a new folder for a migration target from within the migration UI.

  • File Browser:

    • You can now limit snapshot search to the currently selected directory in the File Browser.

    • You can now see the size of the folder contents in the File Browser.

    • You can now individualize folder quota alerts per directory when setting quota rule.

    • Quota report emails may now be sent to a list of email addresses.

    • "Bring into cache" will emit a notification and send an email (if configured) when complete.

  • NMC:

    • You may now set the Time Zone for all times/dates displayed in NMC.

    • In NMC, Heuristics data page now lets you pick a Filer (location) to show the data for.

    • NMC graphs can now be zoomed in for better timescale resolution.

    • Clarified format options for entering User/Group share permissions in NMC.

    • You can now search for items/pages of interest in the NMC interface using the new search box.

    • A notification is now emitted when a new Filer comes online.

    • A notification is now emitted when a Filer goes offline.

  • The default QoS setting is now 10Mbits/sec (up from 2Mbits/sec).

  • Filer and NMC notifications may now be exported in CSV format.

• Reliability:

  • Individual Nasuni volumes have been qualified through 1 billion objects. There is no technical restriction or limit on capacity: this is a tested limit. You may have as many volumes within your account as needed.

  • Fixed false "The RAID battery backup has failed" alerts.

  • Fixed autofault behavior for folders with UTF-8 character sets.

  • Will not report initializing RAID groups as failed.

• Security:

  • Full Disk Encryption (FDE) can now be enabled on Nasuni Filers that have drives that support the functionality (NF-400's manufacturing after October 1, 2014).

  • Volume delete access is now controlled via role-based management.

  • Folder Quotas access is now controlled via role-based management.

  • When reported capacity may be affected due to antivirus violations, it will be noted alongside charts.

  • Remote support timeout may now be extended without terminating the connection.

  • NMC session timeout is now configurable via console settings panel.

  • Fixes for reported vulnerabilities:

    • CVE-2015-0235: "GHOST"

    • CVE-2015-0240

    • Disabled RC4 ciphersuites.

• Performance:

  • Improve response of Volumes page in NMC.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Filer proxy settings updated from NMC will not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements may render differently between browsers.

• Audit logging may not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks for security reasons.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share and may cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Domain local groups will not give users access to CIFS volumes as expected when Filer is joined to a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with Resource SID compression enabled.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes, the traverse permission will not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• Windows Azure will restart virtual machines after shutting down the Nasuni Filer or NMC from the UI. To shut down a machine and keep it shut down, please use PowerShell or the Windows Azure management console.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5, even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link, not the hard link acted upon.

• Broken symlinks cannot be restored from volume snapshots.

• With hard links, auditing may audit actions on any one of the names linking to the same file.

• For both Filer and NMC, Internet Explorer 9 and later are supported. IE8 and lower are no longer supported.

• Nasuni's SMB interface does not support Alternate Data Streams (ADS)/Forks. If you have legacy data from OSX that needs to be migrated please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If using OSX to access the Filer via CIFS/SMB we recommend OSX Mavericks (10.9) (or later) to avoid odd client behavior.

• The Data Migration Service does not maintain sparseness of sparse files when migrated.

• There is a known issue with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 11 that can cause the browser to crash when using the UI in certain situations. If this occurs, install any available Windows security updates or update to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.11

Released Wednesday March 25th, 2015

• Global lock performance improvements.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.10

Released Thursday March 5th, 2015

• Improve global lock efficiency around lock downgrade/upgrade operations.

• Improve fairness around volume version lock.

• Fix an issue causing some fast sync (due to Global Lock) files to not sync quickly.

• Fix rare reboot due to stuck internal resource lock when Global Lock is enabled.

• Fix editing of Cloud Credentials Hostname for Private Cloud deployments.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.7

Released Wednesday March 4th, 2015

• Fix CVE-2015-0240 (Unexpected code execution in smbd).

Nasuni Filer 6.2.6

Released Monday February 6th, 2015

• Restore Nasuni Mobile (iOS, Android, Browser, Desktop clients) access to previous versions.

• Correct timeout for global lock requests.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.5

Released Monday February 2nd, 2015

• Fixes for memory resource utilization.

• Improve global lock response code for Adobe Photoshop.

• Fix snapshot lock race condition that could delay next snapshot.

• Fixes for software updates with global locks enabled.

• Improve performance of enable concurrent I/O advanced share setting.

• Fix NF-50 platform status display in NMC.

• Fix false alerts on Antivirus violations.

• Fixed cases where unused global locks are not cleaned up after file lock is released.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.3

Released Wednesday January 14th, 2015

• Improved performance while making snapshots of shared volumes.

Nasuni Filer 6.2.2

Released Monday January 5th, 2015

• Improvements for Global Locking with Office on Windows 2007.

• Improved stability of fast sync behavior with Global Locking.

• Improved performance and memory use for systems with large numbers of versions (200K+).

• Normal snapshots are no longer blocked by background volume operations.

• Static IP addresses should now be properly set after update.

Nasuni Filer 6.2

Released Monday December 1st, 2014

• This release supports Nasuni's new NF-50 hardware platform.

• The Notification system has received a total overhaul. Please let us know what you think by sending us a note at feedback@nasuni.com.

• Performance on folders with Global Locking enabled is significantly faster.

• The Autodesk Revit application now works as expected with Global Locking. A Nasuni and Revit best practices guide is available. Contact Nasuni Customer Support for details.

• All Windows Azure Storage regions are now supported when creating new volumes.

• Correct iSCSI ID's to be unique between Nasuni Filers.

• The SMBv3 protocol is now an advanced option on shares. The default remains SMBv2.

Nasuni Filer 6.1.2

Released Monday January 12th, 2015

• Fix incorrect file browser dates in UI.

Nasuni Filer 6.1.1

Released Monday October 19th, 2014

• Fix for CVE-2014-3566 (aka "POODLE").

• Improved merge behavior on unreliable networks.

• Fixed Public mode volumes behavior when on systems joined to Active Directory.

• Correct iSCSI ID's to be unique between Filers.

Nasuni Filer 6.1

Released Thursday October 2nd, 2014

The Nasuni Filer 6.1 release is a collection of bug fixes and small enhancements.

• AV violations for filenames using double byte characters can now be ignored.

• File access is no longer blocked during the fast push of files due to Global Locking. This was most noticeable on very large files and doing repetitive save operations.

• "Shut down and wipe this Filer" has been removed from the UI and is now only available via console service menu with the "destroyfiler" command.

• New High Availability systems can now be installed in environments without DHCP using the "settempip" and "settempgateway" service menu commands.

• File alerts now work properly for global lock enabled folders.

• NMC now has an option to immediately check for the latest software updates.

• Fixed compatibility of HTTPS POST request that was not making it through some proxies.

• Modules have been updated for security threat CVE-2014-3560.

• Fixed behavior of folder quota setting on root of volume.

• iDRAC tools are now available on the NF-100.

• Improved entry form for multiple time servers.

• Fix CVE-2014-7169 and CVE-2014-6271 (aka "shellshock")

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

In addition to the known issues and limitations from the 6.0 release, this release has the additional known issues and limitations.

• With NFS clients, a rare race condition exists that may result in the generation of conflict files. This will be addressed in an upcoming release.

Nasuni Filer 6.0.6

Released Friday August 15th, 2014

• Provide internal configuration option around additional background checking tasks.

Nasuni Filer 6.0.5

Released Tuesday August 12th, 2014

• Fix for CVE-2014-3560.

• Support Cleversafe recovery listing API

Nasuni Filer 6.0.4

Released Tuesday July 29th, 2014

• Improved stability of file system with Global Locking enabled.

Nasuni Filer 6.0.3

Released Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

The Nasuni Service 6.0 release adds several key new capabilities building on previous releases such as Nasuni's multi-site capabilities, introduced over 3 years ago in version 3.0, and the Nasuni Management Console introduced in our 5.0 release.

This release takes mobile user access to data to the next level by introducing Nasuni Desktop. Nasuni Mobile was introduced in our 4.0 release allowing phone and tablet users access to data on the go, now those capabilities are extended to mobile computer users with an intuitive, easy to use desktop integrated experience.

Nasuni already has many protocols for accessing data via the Filers, including CIFS, SMBv1/v2, NFSv3, iSCSI, and HTTPS/REST. Our 6.0 release builds on these by adding FTP/SFTP. Providing even greater flexibility and access, with 6.0 Nasuni now enables access to same data/volume via multiple protocols simultaneously.

Global locking has also been added in this release to allow users to easily collaborate when accessing data via different filers. To control bandwidth and filer load, global locking can be configured at a folder level. If needed, locks can be broken via the NMC or Filer management interface. Finally, in the unlikely event of a conflict, Nasuni's advanced conflict management and UniFS® global file system technology protect users from the possibility of any data loss.

In addition to the major enhancements above, there are many other fixes and improvements in Nasuni's 6.0 release.

Note: If a Nasuni Filer is joined to a Nasuni Management Console, update the Nasuni Management Console software before updating the Nasuni Filer software.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Update Details

• Accessibility:

  • Global Locking

    • Nasuni's multi-site capabilities have been extended to support global locking when required.

    • Global locking can be configured at a folder level as to allow control of bandwidth and Filer load vs. global locking requirements.

    • Locks can be viewed/broken through the NMC and Filer interfaces.

    • As always Nasuni's advanced conflict management and UniFS® technology protect from data loss at all times

    • Note: Please see current limitation around the Revit application in limitations section below.

  • Volume Protocols

    • Support for the FTP/SFTP protocols has been added.

    • Volumes can now be enabled for access by multiple protocols, such as both SMB and NFS.

    • Nasuni now supports both local and network users for any protocol access.

    • NFS volumes can now be accessed through Web browsers when also enabled for SMB.

    • See the "Using Multiple Protocols" guide for information on how permissions work on multi-protocol volumes.

  • Nasuni Desktop

    • Nasuni's mobile capabilities are now extended to the desktop with a desktop synchronization client for popular operating systems.

    • You will be able to download desktop clients and additional documentation for end users from Nasuni.com as the desktop clients become available.

    • Note: Please see current limitation on desktop client availability in limitations section below

  • Windows Previous Versions now works properly on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients.

• Manageability:

  • Pinning (locking data in cache of your Filer) is now available at a folder level.

  • Auto Cache (proactive caching of data written by other Filers) can now be configured at a folder level.

  • NMC and Filer administration can now be controlled with Active Directory groups and users.

  • Show notification message when auditing settings are saved.

  • Filer and NMC administrative interfaces are now more responsive with hundreds of shares, exports, or clients.

  • NMC for Internet Explorer is improved.

  • Emails are now sent (if configured) for all snapshot restore events.

  • You can block certain file types from being written via the CIFS/SMB interface (advanced share permissions)

  • UI permission group 'Disconnect Users from Access Points' has been added.

  • A native virtual appliance is available for Windows Server 2012 R2.

  • Auditing shows proper status when enabled on a remote volume.

  • Public volumes created using NMC are now properly created as public volumes.

  • Many UI usability and compatibility enhancements.

• Reliability:

  • Individual Nasuni volumes have been qualified through 700 million objects. There is no technical restriction or limit on capacity: this is a tested limit. You may have many volumes within your account as needed.

  • DMS now properly handles very long UTF-8 encoded file names.

  • DMS now properly handles changes or deletions by other clients to a migration source when the "Delete removed files" option is selected.

  • Customers are now alerted about connection issues between Filers and the Nasuni service.

• Security:

  • Fixes for security threats:

    • CVE-2014-0239

    • CVE-2014-0178

    • CVE-2014-4617

• Performance:

  • Snapshot performance with sparse files (NFS) is significantly faster.

  • Initial snapshot of iSCSI volumes is significantly faster.

  • "Previous versions" now defaults to Off on new shares. Since "Previous versions" can slow down Filer performance, enable this feature only when the functionality is needed. Note that you can create multiple shares that access the same target folder.

  • Concurrent user access limits have been raised.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Nasuni is still working with customers and partners in the early access program to ensure proper Revit application configuration and compatibility with 6.0 Global Lock functionality. If you would like early access for Revit functionality please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• The Desktop Clients for the various operating systems are also completing the early access program and will be available in a few weeks. If you would like early access please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• Quotas created on volumes with Remote Access enabled may be removed if the volume is shared with a pre-5.0 Nasuni Filer.

• Filer proxy settings updated from NMC will not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements may render differently between browsers.

• Audit logging may not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks for security reasons.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share and may cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Domain local groups will not give users access to CIFS volumes as expected when Filer is joined to a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with Resource SID compression enabled.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes, the traverse permission will not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• Windows Azure will restart machines after shutting down the Nasuni Filer or NMC from the UI. To shut down a machine and keep it shut down, please use PowerShell or the Windows Azure management console.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5, even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link, not the hard link acted upon.

• Global locking cannot be used on multi-protocol volumes at this time.

• The volume file browser is no longer available in the Filer UI for Filers being managed by NMC. For this reason 5.5 Filers should be managed by a 5.5 NMC.

• Broken symlinks cannot be restored from volume snapshots.

• With hard links auditing may audit actions on any one of the names linking to the same file.

• For both Filer and NMC, Internet Explorer 9 and later are supported. IE8 and lower are no longer supported.

• Nasuni's SMB interface does not support Alternate Data Streams (ADS)/Forks. If you have legacy data from OSX that needs to be migrated please contact Nasuni Customer Support.

• If using OSX to access the Filer via CIFS/SMB we recommend OSX Mavericks (10.9) to avoid odd client behavior.

• The Data Migration Service does not maintain sparseness of sparse files when migrated.

• There is a known issue with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 11 that can cause the browser to crash when using the UI in certain situations. If this occurs, install any available Windows security updates or update to the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Nasuni Filer 5.6.3

Released Monday August 11th, 2014

• Improve iSCSI performance under heavy writes with flush.

Nasuni Filer 5.6.2

Released Tuesday July 15th, 2014

• Enable upgrade possibility to Nasuni's 6.0 release.

Nasuni Filer 5.5.8

Released Monday June 23rd, 2014

• Support can now configure Filers using DHCP with custom DNS server(s) and/or custom search domain(s)

• Contains security fixes for CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0224, and CVE-2014-3470

Nasuni Filer 5.5.7

Released Thursday April 17th, 2014

• Improved stability of file system when handling concurrent deep tree file system operations

Nasuni Filer 5.5.6

Released Thursday April 10th, 2014

• Addressed CVE-2014-0160 (Heartbleed attack)

Nasuni Filer 5.5.5

Released Tuesday April 7th, 2014

• Addressed issue with required SMB signing and Windows Server 2012 R2

• Improved Filer UI home page performance

Nasuni Filer 5.5.4

Released Tuesday March 18th, 2014

• Optimized cache eviction algorithm

• Improved large file snapshot performance

• Addressed fsck false positives

• Minimum QoS value is now 500 Kb/s

• Addressed issue with mounting remote volumes after a disaster recovery

Nasuni Filer 5.5.1

Released Monday March 3rd, 2014

• Fixed issue with syncing a file that is being read

Nasuni Filer 5.5

Released Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Nasuni's 5.5 release adds several major enhancements requested by our customers, including:

• Versions/File Browser now supported in NMC along with other improvements.

• NFS inodes are now persistent, improving client access and stability on both HA and non-HA systems.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Specific Updates

• Manageability:

  • Nasuni Management Console (NMC):

    • File Browser is now accessible in NMC including support for:

      • File/Folder restores

      • Setting folder quotas

      • Triggering autofault on files/folders

      • Accessing file/folder metadata

      • Administrator file download from current or previous versions

    • Serial numbers and the authentication codes are now available via NMC

    • A Volume Details page has been added to summarize volume details in a single glance

    • Filer licenses can now be refreshed via NMC

    • Volume regions are now displayed in NMC

    • It is now possible to filter by Filer when adding shares and exports

    • Several improvements have been made around tables and sorting

    • New/changed SSL certificates are now picked up by NMC

  • "Versions" has been renamed to "File Browser" in Filer UI

  • Autocache can now be set to only autocache large files, i.e. "auto-cache only files larger than X"

  • The wording around setting reserved cache space for writes has been improved

  • A file system integrity check (fsck) of the Filer's cache can be forced by holding down the "shift" key during boot

  • Both the Filer and NMC have been qualified to run in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V environments.

  • Both the Filer and NMC have been qualified to run in VMware vSphere 5.5 environments including support for vmfs-5 and VMDKs larger than 2TB.

  • Our virtual machine memory requirements have changed:

    • Nasuni Filer VM will no longer run with 2GiB of memory

    • 4GiB is now the minimum required amount of memory for a Filer to run

    • 6GiB is now the default amount of memory for a virtual Filer

• Reliability:

  • NFS inodes are now persistent for the entire time an object is in the Filer's cache.

  • NFS clients will no longer get "stale inode" errors and need to remount after process restarts, software updates, or HA failovers.

  • If the standby node becomes unreachable, the Filer will now send an alert

• Security:

  • A public IP address is no longer needed for the Filer or NMC to run in EC2 or Azure

  • Fixes for security threats:

    • CVE-2013-4402

    • CVE-2013-4408

    • CVE-2013-4576

    • CVE-2012-6150

  • Auditing now handles file paths up to the maximum supported by the protocol

• Performance:

  • Improved performance for volumes with many versions (100,000+)

  • Significantly improved performance for cache miss reads on large files (100GB+)

  • NFS performance has been improved on both regular and high availability systems

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Quotas created on volumes with remote access enabled may be removed if the volume is shared with a pre-5.0 Nasuni Filer

• Filer proxy settings updated from NMC will not take effect for about 2 minutes.

• UI elements may render differently between browsers.

• Audit logging may not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share and may cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Domain local groups will not give users access to CIFS volumes as expected when Filer is joined to a Windows Server 2012 domain controller with Resource SID compression enabled.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• On CIFS volumes the traverse permission will not allow directory navigation as expected when share case sensitivity is turned off.

• Windows Azure will restart machines after shutting down the Nasuni Filer or NMC from the UI. To shut down a machine and keep it shut down, please use PowerShell or the Windows Azure management console.

• VMware Tools show as Running (Not installed) on Filer and NMC virtual machines hosted on vSphere 5.5 even though they are installed and running as expected.

• Audit events for NFS volume hard links refer to the path of the first hard link not the hard link acted upon.

• Shared volumes on Filers running version 5.5 or later are not available to Filers running versions before 5.5.

• The volume file browser is no longer available in the Filer UI for Filer's being managed by NMC. For this reason 5.5 Filers should be managed by a 5.5 NMC.

• Broken symlinks can not be restored from volume snapshots.

Nasuni Filer 5.1.6

Released Friday January 24th, 2014

• Fixed issue where a failed snapshot could cause merges to not complete as expected

Nasuni Filer 5.1.5

Released Friday January 17th, 2014

• Improved Filer Bulk Load process

Nasuni Filer 5.1.4

Released Monday January 13th, 2014

• Fixed issue where auditing will not work as expected on Filers with many shares

Nasuni Filer 5.1.3

Released Monday November 25th, 2013

• Addressed issue where Filers were not always snapshotting at the expected frequency

• Fixed condition where user information was not being recorded in audit log

• Improved NFS performance

Nasuni Filer 5.1.2

Released Monday November 11th, 2013

• Addressed issue with Filer HA install

Nasuni Filer 5.1.1

Released Friday October 25th, 2013

• Can now update from pre 5.0 Nasuni Filer versions to Filer 5.1 as expected

• Addressed issue where antivirus service may not be enabled on volumes after update to Filer 5.1

Nasuni Filer 5.1

Released Monday, October 21, 2013

Nasuni's 5.1 release adds several major enhancements requested by our customers including:

• File System Auditing.

• Support for Nasuni's Generation 4 hardware platforms which feature SSD support.

• Cloud-based Nasuni Filers that can be deployed in Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us, because it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Specific Updates

• Manageability:

  • SNMP:

    • SNMP received a major update in this version.

    • SNMP v3 as well as v1/v2c are now supported.

    • Nasuni's private enterprise number (PEN) is now registered and available.

    • SNMP traps are now supported for any notification that would trigger an email alert.

    • A lot more information is now available via SNMP and new MIBs were added. See the Nasuni Filer or NMC SNMP configuration pages to download all the relevant MIBs.

  • Both the Nasuni Filer and the Nasuni Management Console may now be launched on the Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure compute platforms. For details, please read the Getting Started Guides for each of those platforms.

  • Nasuni now provides a VSS Hardware Provider for point-in-time consistent snapshots on iSCSI volumes. Visit the Nasuni.com downloads page to download the VSS Hardware Provider, if you need it.

  • All new CIFS shares default to "Case Insensitive" for maximum compatibility.

  • More information is now available on existing Data Migrations.

  • CIFS status page now has sortable columns in the Nasuni Filer UI.

  • "Hardware Status" has been renamed to "Platform Status" and is available on all platforms (HW, local VM, and cloud VM)

  • Quota reports may now be sent even if there are no violations, allowing for lightweight capacity reporting use.

  • New NMC capabilities:

    • Volume snapshots may now be cancelled.

    • General CIFS settings may now be set.

    • CIFS/NFS/iSCSI statuses are now available.

    • Percentage of cache used is now available.

• Reliability:

  • When changing general CIFS settings, the administrator is warned of possible client disruption.

  • When deleting shares, the UI now confirms the administrator wants to delete the share and provides the share name that will be deleted.

  • Incomplete snapshots on iSCSI and unshared volumes are no longer made available for restores.

• Security:

  • File System Auditing

    • Nasuni now supports native filesystem auditing on NAS volumes.

    • Administrators can configure which filesystem(s) to audit, the types of events to audit, and include or exclude various paths and files.

    • Audit information is stored in the filesystem itself, with the ability to store an unlimited amount of audit information for an indefinite period.

    • The audit information is available in a simple CSV format for ease of import into your database of choice.

  • iSCSI volumes are now properly identified as Nasuni-provided iSCSI volumes in the SCSI inquiry data.

  • Add protection against Flush+Reload side-channel attack on virtual platforms.

• Performance:

  • iSCSI volume performance has been improved by up to 3x. Caution - existing iSCSI volumes will not receive the full benefit.

  • SMBv2 is the default protocol on CIFS volumes, increasing performance.

  • Quality of Service (QoS) (bandwidth limitations) may now be set on inbound traffic in addition to outbound traffic.

  • QoS values may now be entered directly to match your specific needs.

  • Cache metadata is now more effectively evicted from cache.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Quotas created on volumes with remote access enabled may be removed if the volume is shared with a pre-5.0 Nasuni Filer

• UI elements may render differently between browsers.

• Audit logging may not resolve all group names from Active Directory trusted domains.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share and may cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Mixing case-sensitive and case-insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.

• Windows Azure will restart machines after shutting down the Nasuni Filer or NMC from the UI. To shut down a machine and keep it shut down, please use PowerShell or the Windows Azure management console.

Nasuni Filer 5.0.6

Released Wednesday September 18th, 2013

• Fixed memory leak that can occur on volumes that have remote access enabled

• Daily quota reports are now generated as expected

• Fixed issue with caching and rename

Nasuni Filer 5.0.5

Released Wednesday August 28th, 2013

• Fixed memory leak that can occur on directory open

Nasuni Filer 5.0.4

Released Monday August 26th, 2013

• Fixed memory leak caused by a certain type of file system walk

• Improved folder navigation performance during a snapshot

• Enhanced Active Directory join supportability

Nasuni Filer 5.0.3

Released Tuesday August 13th, 2013

• Can now work around certain types of service interruption

Nasuni Filer 5.0.2

Released Wednesday July 31st, 2013

• Addressed issue where file system could restart when a snapshot was triggered

• Can now specify the Domain Controller Filer will communicate with as expected

• Fixed issue with updating Filers configured to use multiple domains for authentication

Nasuni Filer 5.0.1

Released Wednesday July 10th, 2013

• Fixed issue where not all domains were validated in multiple domain configuration

• Improved Active Directory join error handling

• Addressed issue where email alerts were not being sent as expected

Nasuni Filer 5.0

Released Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Nasuni's 5.0 release adds several major enhancements requested by our customers and introduces two major additions to our offering:

• Nasuni Management Console.

• Folder Quotas.

We add new features and components regularly. Your Nasuni Filer automatically detects these updates and prompts you to install them. You may choose to have these updates applied automatically or manually. If you need help, please visit our support center.

Your feedback is very important to us as it drives additional features and capabilities. If you want to share your thoughts, please call us at +1.800.208.3418, or email us at feedback@nasuni.com.

Regards, The Nasuni Team

Specific Updates

• Manageability:

  • Nasuni Management Console (NMC):

    • NMC is a separate virtual appliance (VMware or Hyper-V) that can manage all your filers from a single interface.

    • A quick start guide and full documentation is available for NMC.

    • If you need help setting it up, please visit our support center

  • Correctly show version number when a new version is available on updates page.

  • Hide region display on remotely mounted volumes.

  • Added support for a different network gateway per port.

  • Added support to allow administrators to configure domain trust relationships.

  • iSCSI volumes may now be increased in size

• Reliability:

  • Cache file system integrity check is now performed online and will only hold up a boot if a consistency check previously failed.

• Security:

  • Close potential security threat identified in CVE-2013-0249.

• Performance:

  • Increased performance by reducing metadata lock contention.

In addition to the enhancements above, this release includes many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

Known issues and limitations

• Quotas created on volumes with remote access enabled may be removed if the volume is shared with a pre 5.0 Filer

• UI elements may render differently between browsers.

• Certain interfaces (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) are intended to be accessible only within trusted networks.

• Enabling direct snapshot access for a CIFS share prevents users from deleting directories within that share and may cause unwanted behavior for clients with offline folders or other synchronization services in place.

• Enabling case insensitivity can reduce performance when accessing files or directories with the wrong case.

• Mixing case sensitive and case insensitive shares on the same directory path can lead to confusing behavior.