Translations:ReleaseNotes/Liberty/155/en
- Enabled support for availability zones.
- Added administrator API components to share instances.
- Added pool weigher which allows Manila scheduler to place new shares on pools with existing share servers.
- Support for share migration from one hostpool to another hostpool (experimental).
- Added shared extend capability in the generic driver.
- Support for adding consistency groups, which allow snapshots for multiple filesystem shares to created at the same point in time (experimental).
- Support for consistency groups in the NetApp cDOT driver and generic driver.
- Support for oversubscription in thin provisioning.
- New Windows SMB driver:
- Support for handling Windows service instances and exporting SMB shares.
- Added new
osapi_share_workers
configuration option to improve the total throughput of the Manila API service. - Added share hooks feature, which allows actions to be performed before and after share drive methods calls, call additional periodic hook for each 'N' tick, and update the results of a driver's action.
- Improvements to the NetApp cDOT driver:
- Added variables netapp:dedup, and netapp:compression when creating the flexvol that backs up a new manila share.
- Added manage/unmanage support and shrink_share support.
- Support for
extended_share
API component. - Support for netapp-lib PyPI project to communicate with storage arrays.
- Improvements to the HP 3PAR driver:
- Added reporting of dedupe, thin provisioning and hp3par_flash_cache capabilities. This allows share types and the CapabilitiesFilter to place shares on hosts with the requested capabilities.
- Added share server support.
- Improvements to the Huawei Manila driver:
- Added support for storage pools, extend_share, manage_existing, shrink_share, read-only share, smartcache and smartpartition.
- Added reporting of dedupe, thin provisioning and compression capabilities.
- Added access-level support to the VNX Manila driver.
- Added support for the Manila HDS HNAS driver.
- Added GlusterFS native driver.
- GlusterFS drivers can now specify the list of compatible share layouts.
- Added microversion support (v2 API).