EVO OS Version 7.1 includes improvements to the admin web GUI as well as improvements for security, reliability, and performance! Some of the most notable additions are summarized below. This version (and/or a subset of its features) have been shipping on new systems for several months.
In addition to these highlighted items, there are many other improvements and options, which are documented in the relevant sections of the EVO GUI's Help manual.
Hardware Compatibility
EVO OS Version 7.1 ships on all new systems, and is available for upgrade for most systems running version 7.0.1.
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EVO OS v.7.1 Release Notes
New Features
- Included support for ShareBrowser v.7.1 and Slingshot v.1.6 - [EVO-5198]
- New logical disks can now be AES-256 encrypted - [EVO-3534]
- Office 365 can now be used for SMTP notifications - [EVO-3083]
- EVO logs can now be sent to a syslog server - [EVO-3656]
- Included a method to track and modify expansion chassis order - [EVO-5340]
- Included optional email notifications for OS disk failures - [EVO-4271]
- A new utility is included to check for MTU mismatch - [EVO-3622]
- Included a viewer for most recent SMB audit logs - [EVO-4809]
- Bandwidth throttling for replication jobs - [EVO-4707]
Improvements
- Improved Slingshot replication performance for SMB use cases - [EVO-5221]
- EVO logs are now encrypted by default when downloaded - [EVO-3775]
- System will provide an alert if drives are installed out of sequence - [EVO-3590]
- RAID resyncing can now be paused and resumed - [EVO-3825]
- Promoted SMB user auditing controls - [EVO-4722]
- Logical Disk Health Status is now shown on Shares page - [EVO-4222]
- Improved messaging for last Slingshot job summary - [EVO-4749]
- Added animation to the batch tasks in sidebar tray - [EVO-5261]
- More statistics from other EVOs are now included in Federated view - [EVO-4391]
- Hardware activation licensing has been simplified and improved - [EVO-3625]
- Volumes will remain offline if EVO reboots with critical level UPS battery - [EVO-1041]