BrickStor Release Notes

Thank you for choosing BrickStor SP. The RackTop team is pleased to announce the availability of BrickStor SP 23.2.

About the Release Notes

The release notes provide critical and release-specific information for BrickStor SP 23.2 behavioral changes.

Improvements and Functionality

23.2

BrickStor SP

New Improvements and Functionality Updates
Active Defense

  • User behavior resource utilization, detection and performance improvements

  • Incidents are created for excessive SMB access denied activity

  • Improved detection sensitivity

  • Observation mode

  • Security rules support AD groups

  • User configurable rules and exception handling

  • SMB 1.0 triggers alerts

SMB

  • SMB locking improvements for highly concurrent workloads

  • Support for 256 bit ciphers

  • Improved resource utilization

NFS

  • Improved support for NFS 4.1 HA with VMware

HA

  • Stability and sensor detection improvements

  • Improved failover times with large pools

Snapshots and Indexing

  • New indexing engine improves resource utilization when indexing snapshots

Identity Services

  • Supports queries while AD caching is in progress

  • Service caches AD metadata by default

  • Supports case-insensitive lookups

  • Clustered systems now join AD concurrently as part of cluster creation

  • AD join supports alternate OU containers

Configuration Database

  • Confd supports multiple instances when running on Windows witness

Health Services

  • Improved healthd resource utilization and performance

  • Improved readability of health alerts

  • Alerts now auto-pruned when no longer relevant

  • Added sensor for confd

  • Added sensor for drive IO latencies

  • Added filtering by component status

  • Improved detection algorithms to improve false positive reporting

  • Added health history report

TDM

  • Improved worker threading for better resource utilization

  • Improved dataset destruction handling

  • Support for delaying transfer based on configurable modification time

OS

  • Added sesadm utility for enclosure diagnosis and troubleshooting

  • Added driver support for esas5hba

  • Removed support for ATTO Virtual SES

  • Improved SCSI polling and timeouts

  • Improved system stability with multiple failing disk devices

  • Added support for HPE EL8000

  • Dataset encryption uses AES-GCM by default (improved performance)

  • Support for Intel Scalable v3

  • Improved and standardized default NDMP configuration

  • Webhooks support common public certificate CAs