Changes in Swarm Cluster Installer (SCI) 2.1

This release features the following improvements:

GUI-based cluster upgrades for all the components including SCS, gateway, Elasticsearch, Prometheus and grafana
separate data disk for Elasticsearch datastore
separate data disk for Prometheus and grafana

GUI-based upgrade works only if the cluster was installed using SCI 2.0 and there are no manual changes to the configuration files like gateway.cfg, elasticsearch.yml. However, it inherits the changes to SCS, storage and gateway done through UIC/UIS

Changes in Swarm Cluster Installer (SCI) 2.0

This release features the following improvements:

UI-Based Installation: The SCI 2.0 is a UI-based solution for automatic installation and configuring the Swarm ecosystem on VMware vCenter.
Simplified Deployment: No complex CLI commands or steps are required as SCI 2.0 provides an ability to generate configurations based on the expected workload.
Simplified Data Protection Solution: Bucket lifecycle policies allow a bucket owner to use versions without worrying about the manual cleanup of old versions. This data protection mechanism mitigates concerns about runaway cluster space usage by limiting version accumulation.

vCenter credentials, vCenter infrastructure details, and Swarm Installer package is required to install and deploy SCI 2.0.

SCI 2.0 UI-based installation is performed in the VMware vCenter environment.
Bucket Lifecycle Policy installation supports Gateway 7.9, Content Portal 7.6, and Swarm Storage 14.1 versions.