v1.4.0 release

Version Summary

Version Number: v1.4.0 [tag: v1.4.0]

Date: 01-Oct-2021

Release Summary:

This release is an incremental release over SODA Delfin project v1.3.0 release

• Enhanced Heterogeneous Performance Metric Collection Framework with improved job distribution, load balancing and multi processing
• Host mapping support through resource groups
• File-system metrics added
• Driver Enhancements
  -Netapp C mode Performance metric collection
  -EMC VMAX port and controller resources
  -EMC VMAX pool, port and controller metrics collection
  -Host mapping from Huawei Oceanstor

Enhancements and fixes

• 663 Added VMAX driver support for controller & port resources
• 623 Added Metrics collection for VMAX storage pool, port & controller
• 667 Added Filesystem metrics to the delfin capability list
• 674 Made job scheduler local to task processes
• 678 Centralised consistent distribution of tasks
• 708 Dynamic load balancing through sub process for metric collection
• 676 Performance metrics collection from Netapp driver
• 673 Host mapping through resource groups
• Multiple fixes and optimisations in drivers

For detailed change log check CHANGELOG-v1.4.0

Projects/Repos Tested with this release:

Project	Release Tag
installer	v1.5.0
dashboard	v1.5.0

How to use the Release:

Users can opt for any of these three methods.

1. Standalone installer: https://github.com/sodafoundation/delfin/blob/master/installer/README.md
2. Using SODA ansible installer: https://docs.sodafoundation.io/soda-gettingstarted/installation-using-ansible/
3. Using docker-compose deployment:

• Note: For monitoring performance metrics collected by Delfin in Prometheus and visualize, enable srm_toolchain while installing
  Open installer/ansible/group_vars/srm-toolchain.yml and make install_srm_toolchain true

install_srm_toolchain:true

Issues and Suggestions

Any SODA Release related issues/suggestions, please raise at https://github.com/sodafoundation/delfin/issues

Documentation

https://docs.sodafoundation.io