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   * FlashSystem grid dashboard for visualization and monitoring on all systems in the grid.   * FlashSystem grid dashboard for visualization and monitoring on all systems in the grid.
   * Enhancements to storage partition migration for non-disruptive data movement between systems, including:   * Enhancements to storage partition migration for non-disruptive data movement between systems, including:
-        ​GUI support for initiating, monitoring and managing partition migration. +      * GUI support for initiating, monitoring and managing partition migration. 
-        Support for partition migration with disaster recovery. +      ​* ​Support for partition migration with disaster recovery. 
-        Partition migration while managing snapshots and Safeguarded Copies.+      ​* ​Partition migration while managing snapshots and Safeguarded Copies.
   * SCSI Persistent Reserve support for iSCSI hosts in partitions.   * SCSI Persistent Reserve support for iSCSI hosts in partitions.
   * Support for highly available snapshots, including snapshot restore without loss of HA.   * Support for highly available snapshots, including snapshot restore without loss of HA.
   * Enhancements for monitoring high availability and disaster recovery, showing progress and estimated completion time for volume group and partition synchronization.   * Enhancements for monitoring high availability and disaster recovery, showing progress and estimated completion time for volume group and partition synchronization.
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 +===== V8.7.2 =====
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 +25-02-2025
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 +The following new features have been introduced in the 8.7.2.0 release:
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 +  * Support for iSCSI hosts in HA partitions.
 +  * Support for SCSI Persistent Reservations for volumes in storage partitions.
 +  * Support for internal key management for encrypted data-at-rest.
 +  * Single point of administration for health reporting for objects in a FlashSystem grid.
 +  * Support for more than 16 NVMe over Fibre Channel hosts.
 +  * Policy-based replication can be configured on image mode volumes to allow for a migration from external storage, while maintaining any existing replication on the virtualized storage during the migration.
 +  * Volumes or volume groups that are replicated or in highly available storage partitions can be restored or refreshed from a snapshot.
 +  * Improvements for better granularity for iSCSI 2-way CHAP authentication and FIPS compliance for iSCSI hosts.
 +  * Support for VLAN tagging on management networks for Service IP addresses.
 +  * Support for creating a standard child pool in a standard parent pool without specifying a quota.
 +  * Host offline alerts can be enabled or disabled on a per-host basis.
 +  * Enhancements for Ransomware Threat Detection by introducing volume group awareness for systems with IBM FlashCore Module (FCM4) firmware 4.2 or later.
  
 __The following features are no longer supported from 8.7.1.0 and later:__ __The following features are no longer supported from 8.7.1.0 and later:__
   * Remote Copy; this includes Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, HyperSwap and Volume Mobility.   * Remote Copy; this includes Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, HyperSwap and Volume Mobility.
-        ​These features have been superseded by Policy-based replication and Policy-based HA. Systems using Remote Copy cannot upgrade to 8.7.1 or later. +      * These features have been superseded by Policy-based replication and Policy-based HA. Systems using Remote Copy cannot upgrade to 8.7.1 or later. 
-        Replication capabilities are removed from the FlashSystem 5015 and FlashSystem 5035 as these do not support Policy-based replication or Policy-based High Availability.+      ​* ​Replication capabilities are removed from the FlashSystem 5015 and FlashSystem 5035 as these do not support Policy-based replication or Policy-based High Availability.
   * Multiple I/O groups:   * Multiple I/O groups:
-        ​FlashSystem grid is the new way to scale-out FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller systems. Systems with multiple I/O groups cannot upgrade to this version. +      * FlashSystem grid is the new way to scale-out FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller systems. Systems with multiple I/O groups cannot upgrade to this version. 
-        SAN Volume Controller (but not FlashSystem) will allow multiple I/O groups to be configured on the next long-term support (LTS) release. +      ​* ​SAN Volume Controller (but not FlashSystem) will allow multiple I/O groups to be configured on the next long-term support (LTS) release. 
-    Ethernet-based clustering +  ​* ​Ethernet-based clustering 
-    iSER host attach +  ​* ​iSER host attach 
-    Nondistributed RAID +  ​* ​Nondistributed RAID
  
 ===== V8.7 ===== ===== V8.7 =====
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