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5.0.2

WEKA Data Platform is now NeuralMeshTM by WEKA. This version introduces the following enhancements.

Platform enhancements

  • Single-hop writes: Improves write throughput with single-hop writes. This feature enables large write operations to send data blocks directly from the frontend to the drive container, bypassing the compute container.

  • Shared-core persistent clients: Persistent clients can now operate without dedicated cores, allowing for the sharing of compute resources that might otherwise be dedicated to clients.

  • Drive pools: When adding a drive to a new cluster, you can use pools to organize capacity by indirection unit size.

  • Audit and forwarding new topic: This feature provides continuous event streams that record data access, modifications, and deletions, enabling organizations to monitor and respond to activity across their storage environment for enhanced security and compliance. >>>

S3 enhancements

  • S3 open connection tracking: Introduces open connection tracking to measure active S3 clients. This enhancement improves the monitoring of active client sessions.

NFS enhancements

  • Increased NFS floating IPs: Increases the maximum number of floating IPs for NFS from 50 to 200, allowing greater scalability for customers with a large number of NFS clients.

Client enhancements

  • Configurable client verbosity: Clients now have configurable verbosity settings for the WEKA Agent, using conventional syslog log levels.

  • Client telemetry relay: Supports relaying telemetry and statistics from clients to WEKA Home through backend servers.

5.0.1

WEKA Data Platform 5.0.1 focuses on delivering innovation to WEKA customers and contains the following enhancements:

Release highlights:

  • RDMA enablement: RDMA is now enabled by default when using RDMA-capable network interfaces.

  • Container deactivation check: Introduced a new command and API to simulate container deactivation to assess whether the operation can be performed safely without impacting the cluster. CLI: weka cluster container deactivation-check <Container-ids> API: POST​/containers​/deactivation-check

  • New snapshot APIs: Added two APIs to support efficient paging through changes between points-in-time. See the /Snapshots/diffPrepare and /snapshot/difflist APIs documentation for details. >>>

S3 enhancements:

  • GET request optimization: Performance improvements for most GET requests, achieving up to a 70% increase in efficiency.

  • Zero-copy architecture extension: The WEKA zero-copy architecture now applies to S3, reducing both memory usage and system call overhead.

  • New SLB metrics: Added statistics to track traffic distribution across adjacent SLBs: SLB_1xx_RQ, SLB_2xx_RQ, SLB_3xx_RQ, SLB_4xx_RQ, and SLB_5xx_RQ.

Additional enhancements:

  • Support for Debian 12 clients running Linux kernel 6.6.

  • Support for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) shape VM.Standard.E5.Flex.

Deprecations:

  • The legacy SMB protocol is no longer included with the WEKA Data Platform.

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