PeerGFS v6.0 is Now Available
Peer Software is pleased to announce the General Availability of PeerGFS v6.0, a Major Release that is immediately available for purchase, trial download, and as an upgrade.
Premium Features and Updates Available for PeerGFS Subscriptions
PeerGFS subscription customers have access to support for NFS, PeerIQ, Network of Brokers, and Edge Caching based on their license package.
For PeerGFS Enterprise and Data Center subscription customers, PeerGFS v6.0 introduces support for NFS-based workloads, featuring:
- Support for both File Synchronization and File Replication job types.
- Support for NetApp ONTAP 9+ and Cloud Volumes ONTAP; Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP; Dell PowerScale 9.5+ (syslog only); and Nutanix Files v4.2.1+.
- Support for a single Linux- or Windows-based PMC to handle both SMB and NFS workloads.
This release also adds usability improvements to the management of Network of Brokers.
New features and improvements for PeerIQ in this release include:
- New File System Analytics capabilities using scan-based summary reporting to paint a picture of what lives on file servers in an environment.
- New Volumes report highlighting total storage space free and consumed on the file server volumes that are monitored by PeerGFS.
- Support for Active Directory and OpenLDAP authentication.
- Multi-user support for logging into the PeerIQ web interface.
- Improved context-aware help system.
Additionally, PeerGFS v6.0 incorporates the following new features and enhancements to improve performance, usability, and security that are available to all Peer customers with active PeerGFS Software Maintenance and Support agreements:
- Significantly improved performance of initial scans, specifically when starting a job for the first time.
- Reorganized the menu system within the PMC and added the ability to suppress email alerts for use during maintenance windows.
- Improved configuration in Dell PowerScale environments when using the syslog-based connector.
- Enhanced full file checksum support with better handling of checksums with large files, and improved logging.
How to Upgrade
To request an upgrade to PeerGFS v6.0 please go to our upgrade request page for more details.
You may also visit the Peer Knowledge Base for additional information, or contact a Peer solutions specialist.
