What's new in 8.7.0

Learn about new features, enhancements, and important updates that are available in this release.

Version 8, Release 7.0

Table 1. Updates for Version 8.7.0
Feature/Enhancement	Description
Policy-based high availability: Define host location Local-site I/O access to avoid cross-ISL traffic	Getting started Configuring and monitoring High Availability by using the GUI Creating a new High Availability configuration by using the CLI Solution overview Command-line interface Revised commands lshost mkhost chhost
TLS connection to send syslog notifications and messages	Getting started Syslog notifications Command-line interface Revised commands lstruststore chtruststore mksyslogserver chsyslogserver mktruststore
New Flash Grid	Getting started Flash Grid Command-line interface New command manageflashgrid Revised commands lssystem lstruststore
Automatic download of compatible security patches to the system	Getting started Patch installation Command-line interface Revised commands lsavailablepatch chsystempatch lssecurity lspatch lssystempatches chsecurity
An increase in the number of short-distance partnerships over RDMA	Getting started IP partnership requirements
To convert thin-clone volume to clone volume	Command-line interface New command converttoclone
Fast path Ethernet and VLAN for Management IP addresses	Getting started IP partnership requirements Software update Restoring the system configuration Command-line interface Revised commands mkcluster chip lsip lsportset mkip rmip
Non-disruptive storage partition migration from one FlashSystem to another using IBM Storage Insights	Command-line interface Revised commands lspartition lssystem chsystem
Ability to view volume group snapshot restore timestamp details	Command-line interface Revised commands lsvolumegroup lsvolumegroupsnapshot
Ability for policy-based replication to be used on a different partnership for different volume groups while policy-based high availability is configured	Command-line interface Revised commands lspartition lsvolumegroup lsvolumegroupreplication
Snapshot population for non-high availability partitions	Command-line interface Revised command mkvolumegroup
RESTful APIs to provide system performance statistics	Getting started Storage Virtualize Performance Statistics Getting performance statistics Node statistics Backend (MDisk) volumes Volume (VDisk) statistics Disk (drive) statistics Fibre Channel (FC) statistics
Ransomware threat detection: Filesystem awareness for ransomware threat detection Storage Insights Pro entitlement information	Command-line interface Revised commands lsvdiskanalysis
Automatic update of candidate FlashCore Modules (FCM)	Command-line interface Revised commands lssystem chsystem
Policy-based high availability and policy-based replication for the IBM FlashSystem 5045	Getting started Replication Bitmap space configuration
User-configurable default grain size for new snapshots and FlashCopy mappings	Command-line interface Revised commands lssystem chsystem