Version 3.1.0 (December 2016)

Version 3.1.0 introduced support for new releases of the VMware platforms (vCenter, vWC, vRO, vROps). The additional changes were as follows.

Ticket ID Description
SCB-879 Enhancement: Added the availability capability for a storage service, enabling the use of stretched clusters on IBM SAN Volume Controller systems.
SCB-934 Enhancement: Added the Quality of Service (QoS) capability for the Spectrum Accelerate Family storage services, enabling the use of volumes or storage resources according to predefined service levels.
SCB-2940 Enhancement: Improved handling of VMware virtual volumes (VVols), allowing for multiple VVol-enabled services to reside on a single storage space. Also, a new resource attachment method is used to attach several storage resources from different storage systems to one service.
SCB-2650 Change: Upgraded Django Python Web framework to version 1.8.
SCB-3038 Change: Introduced new methods of server authentication and token storage, using the current VMware SDK tools.
SCB-898 Fixed: IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family products do not support updating storage profile for virtual volumes.
SCB-2634 Fixed: When the TCP port 5672 is opened for the rabbitmq process, it accepts all traffic, compromising connection security.
SCB-2750 Fixed: When creating a new volume on a DS8000 storage system immediately deleting another one, the new volume state might appear as "Pending deletion".
SCB-2878 Fixed: If an IBM SAN Volume Controller is removed from the target list on an ESXi host, the storage system retains its connectivity and allows operations on itself.
SCB-3046 Fixed: A cloned virtual volume is displayed as a snapshot VVol.
SCB-3146 Fixed: When hot cloning a VM with a snapshot from a VVol-based datastore on a host to another datastore on a different host, may cause the operating system on the destination datastore to fail.
SCB-3184 Fixed: Spectrum Control Base UI allows attaching multiple storage resources from the same storage system to a VVol-based service, although only a single pool attachment is currently supported.
SCB-3187 Fixed: On IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with microcode prior to version 7.8, if a snapshot is made for a VM cloned from a VVol-based VM or a template, restoring from this snapshot and then performing hot migration of the VM during I/Os, may result in data loss.
SCB-3209 Fixed: Changing VVol-related configuration on Spectrum Control Base after the storage system, holding the VVol metadata information, was detached from Spectrum Control Base, and then connected again, can cause malfunction in IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA.
SCB-3232 Fixed: Cloning a VVol-based VM may result in the VM operating system failure, when the following conditions exist:
  • The VM has a snapshot.
  • The source and target datastores are VVol-based datastores and each of them is accessible from a different host.
  • The ESXi version is 6.0, 6.0U1 or 6.0U2.
SCB-3509 Fixed: Adding a storage system with a back-resolving IP address to Spectrum Control Base fails, if the resulting DNS name has no address association.