Swarm 16 Highlights

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Swarm combines the scalable software-defined object storage of Swarm Storage with the components to support diverse implementations:

  • Swarm Cluster Installer - Browser-based installation utility for vCenter environment

  • Swarm Cluster Services - Cluster for configuration and storage node deployment

  • Storage Cluster - Cluster for Swarm storage nodes

  • Elasticsearch - Cluster for search and historical metrics, with DataCore-specific customization via an RPM

  • Content Gateway - Gateway for cloud-based client access (S3)

  • Storage UI - Website for storage cluster management

  • Content UI - Website for cloud content management

  • SwarmFS - Optional connector for NFS clients

Swarm 16.1 - Updated April 2024

Storage

SCS

SCI

ES, Search

Gateway

Content UI

Storage UI

SwarmFS

Storage

SCS

SCI

ES, Search

Gateway

Content UI

Storage UI

SwarmFS

16.1

1.7.1

2.9

7.17.14, 7.2.0-3

8.0.2

7.10

3.5

3.2

  • Storage Recovery: Improved Swarm Storage recovery after an Elasticsearch outage.

  • Better Storage Booting: Improving booting Swarm Storage when there is a disk that the operating system is having trouble recognizing.

  • Multipart Uploads: Improved procedure for allowing multipart uploads during Swarm Storage upgrades from 15.x and earlier releases.

  • Object Locking: The retention duration for S3 object locking may be constrained by the storage administrator at the bucket and domain level.

Swarm 16 - Updated January 2024

Storage

SCS

SCI

ES, Search

Gateway

Content UI

Storage UI

SwarmFS

Storage

SCS

SCI

ES, Search

Gateway

Content UI

Storage UI

SwarmFS

16.0

1.6

2.8

7.17.14, 7.2.0

8.0

7.10

3.5

3.2

  • Improved Space Recovery: New EC writes of versioned objects allow later deletes of those versions to have immediate segment removal, thus, allowing faster overall space recovery.

  • Fixed Issues: Fixed several issues potentially impacting Veeam or other backup use cases.

  • Improved Performance: A Gateway infrastructure refresh has led to significant performance gains.

  • Improved Resiliency: The Gateway recovers gracefully from cluster outages.

  • Minor Elasticsearch upgrade.



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