FlashGrid SkyCluster Launcher

Release Notes

Note: versions 18.08 and earlier were called FlashGrid Cloud Provisioning

Version 18.10

• Wizard-style web GUI
• GI and DB ver 18.3 support
• Storage Fabric 18.10
• Diagnostics ver 18.10 with CLI based upload, enhanced monitoring, and alerting

Version 18.08

• Storage Fabric ver 18.08 with enhanced disk heartbeat mechanism
• Allow configuring timezone other than UTC
• Allow selecting disk type
• On VMs with >50GiB memory set vm.min_free_kbytes = 5GiB for better reliability on heavily utilized systems #1183
• Additonal network forwarding rules for RMAN backup to AWS S3
• Enhanced OOM protection parameters

Version 18.07

• Added Oracle July 2018 PSU/RU
• Added EC2 i3.metal instance support
• Storage perofrmance enhancement in Azure
• Automatic generation of license file for Marketplace deployments
• Disabled swap for enhanced reliability

Version 18.04

• Added FlashGrid Diagnostics 18.04
• RHEL 7.5 / OL 7.5 based VM images
• Added Oracle April 2018 PSU/RU
• Added Azure China and Germany clouds
• Added Application Security Groups in Azure

Version 18.03

• Azure Accelerated Network support
• AWS Network speed enhancements
• Replaced NTPD with CHRONYD
• Removed support for GI 12.1

Version 18.01

• Added Jan 2018 Oracle PSU/RU
• RHEL 7 based AMI availability via AWS Marketplace
• Support for AWS EC2 M5 family
• Limited support for custom OS user IDs and custom OS groups

Version 17.11

• Added Oct 2017 Oracle PSU/RU
• Web interface enhancements
• Added auto-configuration of DNS for AWS

Version 17.09

• Added SCAN Proxy support
• Added ASM disk group configuration
• Added AWS GovCloud support

Version 17.08

• Added Azure support
• Added Aug 2017 Oracle PSU/RU

Version 17.07

• Initial release of web-based FlashGrid Cloud Provisining