Resolved Issues in 5.3.0-SP8

Install & Upgrade

ORION-250937: Resolved an issue that could cause the Error in function "get_drives_fw_versions". Failed sending ssh commands error when trying to activate an EBox.
ORION-251652: Eliminated a flow where the cluster installation procedure could not complete because of the AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name' error when trying to upgrade from a VAST OS version prior to 12.14.6-1673751 to VAST Cluster 5.3.
ORION-254913: Updated pre-upgrade validations to avoid raising a false Fan interfaces have fan_status=None, but 'OK' expected error when the actual hardware does not have any fan issues.

ORION-244936: Made updates to prevent unexpected decrease of read performance after applying a QoS policy that imposes a minimum QoS.

ORION-232477: Eliminated a potential race condition in VAST Prometheus Exporter that could cause some metrics to be missing due to the could not obtain lock on row in relation "vmsapp_view" error.

ORION-251819: Made updates to avoid raising the Cannot reset default_retention_period! It must have a default value. error when trying to set the object lock retention period to None (Element Store -> Views -> choose to edit a view -> S3 tab -> Object Lock tab -> Retention Mode).
ORION-247427: Updated the logic behind the object size unit selector in lifecycle rule settings (Element Store -> Lifecycle Rules -> choose to create or edit a rule -> Object size pane) so that the UI does not substitute Bytes with KB when viewing or editing a lifecycle rule that was originally defined with Bytes.

ORION-243331: Enhanced handling of mtime updates on CNodes to eliminate a flow that could cause a non-synced clocks detected alert during an upgrade.
ORION-236781: Introduced optimizations to improve write performance when running some types of workloads on Supermicro EBoxes.