Important Notes

• Performing data deduplication requires at least 16 GB of memory.
• Starting from h4.5.1, QuTS hero is no longer compatible with the following applications: DJ2 Console, CodexPack.

New Features

QuTS hero

• QuTS hero now provides Console Management, a command-line interface that supports log viewing, app management, license activation, and other operations via SSH.
• QuTS hero now supports iSER-compatible network interface cards (Mellanox: QXG-10G2SF-CX4, QXG-25G2SF-CX4, LAN-40G2SF-MLX).
• QuTS hero now supports QuLog Center, which replaces System Logs and allows for centralized log management of system events, system access, and online user status on your devices.
• Added support for joining the NAS (x86 models) to Azure Active Directory Domain Service via site-to-site VPN.

Network & Virtual switch now supports the following security and authentication mechanisms

• WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
• PEAP EAP-MSCHAP v2
• EAP-TTLS (PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, MS-CHAP v2)

Storage

• Added support for SAS JBODs.
• QuTS hero now supports the TL SATA and USB JBODs.
• Added the option to regularly clean the deduplication table.

APP

• QuTS hero now supports VJBOD Cloud.

Enhancements

QuTS hero

• QuTS hero now supports new SNMP OIDs (Object Identifiers) and MIBs (Management Information Bases).

Storage

• Files written to the WORM (write once read many) folders now automatically become read-only.
• Users can now choose to share their data usage analysis with QNAP to help enhance disk failure prediction.
• QuTS hero now displays a warning message when users remove a storage pool.
• Users can now view and edit the WORM retention settings in Storage & Snapshots.
• Improved snapshot taking and snapshot recycling mechanisms.
• Added an infotip to explain the discrepancy between the LUN usage displayed on the NAS and on the mounted device.
• Users can now choose a cache mode when creating SSD cache.
• Ironwolf Health Management (IHM) in Storage & Snapshots now supports Ironwolf SSDs.

Fixed Issues

• Administrators could not search for users or groups when editing shared folder permissions in Control Panel.
• Users could not create SED storage pools with M.2 SSDs.
• After users expanded a storage pool, the guaranteed snapshot space on the storage pool would not increase accordingly.
• QuTS hero would sometimes be slower to respond due to an unexpected socket error.
• The tabs on the Snapshot Replica page in Storage & Snapshots would stop responding after users canceled the creation of a snapshot replica job.
• Users could not create a storage pool after creating a virtual JBOD disk.

Known Issues

• Users cannot enable Mustang Card User Driver after updating QuTS hero to h4.5.1.
• Users cannot open HD Player in HybridDesk Station after updating QuTS hero to h4.5.1.
• Users cannot successfully enable graphic cards after updating QuTS hero and NVIDIA GPU Driver.
• If you subscribe to QVR Elite, update License Center manually to the latest version after the QuTS hero update to ensure the correct functioning of your subscription service.