Arriving hot on the heels of the PowerStore H700 & H7000 hybrid chassis and A300 & A300 archive platforms that debuted last month, the new PowerScale OneFS 9.3 release shipped on Monday, 18th October 2021. This new 9.3 release brings with it an array of new features and functionality, including:
| Feature | Info |
| NVMe SED support for PowerScale All-flash | · FIPS-certified Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) support for PowerScale F600 & F900 nodes |
| Writable Snapshots | · Enables the creation and management of a space and time efficient, modifiable copy of a regular OneFS snapshot. |
| NFS v4.1 and v4.2 Support | · Connectivity support for versions 4.1 and 4.2 of the NFS file access protocol. |
| Long filename support | · Provision for file names up to 1024 bytes, allowing support for long names in UTF-8 multi-byte character sets. |
| Inline data in inodes | · Data efficiency feature allowing a small file’s data to be stored in unused space within its inode block. |
| HDFS ACLs | · Provide support for HDFS-4685 access control lists, allowing users to manage permissions on their datasets from Hadoop clients. |
| Job engine exclusions | · Allow Job engine jobs to be run on a defined subset of a cluster’s nodes. |
| CloudPools Recall | · Improved CloudPools file recall & rehydrate performance. |
| Safe SMB client disconnects | · Allows SMB clients the opportunity to flush their caches prior to being disconnected. |
| S3 protocol enhancements | · Added support for S3 chunked upload, multi-object delete, and non-slash delimiters for lists. |
The new OneFS 9.3 code is available on the Dell EMC Online Support site as both a reimage file for configuring new clusters with 9.3, and an upgrade package for legacy clusters.
We’ll also be taking a deeper look at these new OneFS 9.3 features in blog articles over the course of the next few weeks.