Fix garbage collection issues in GFS2

Jan 06, 2025 Update
Checksum: 67dc588f3fb5cb1f34055d97675d53e612118e544ed195146f9ed29e61f18459

These updates include the following new features:

• Support for Changed Block Tracking to GFS2 and XFS Storage Repository types to enable optimized backup solutions.
• These updates contain fixes for the following issues:
• Fix garbage collection issues in GFS2.
• Intermittently, the storage management code for GFS2 and XFS failed to enable the accelerated storage devices.
• The toolstack does not verify that the host’s storage manager supports changed block tracking (CBT) before plugging a VBD for a CBT-enabled VDI.
• Intellicache does not correctly populate the local cache when reading VM private data from the remote storage.
• Issues with role-based access control, cross-pool migration using the xe CLI, and pool join.
• These updates include the following improvements:
• Increased parallelization during VM startup for improved performance.
• Long-running VDI migrations now use asynchronous connections, reducing the risk of timeouts and failures.
• Corrected reporting of RRD CPU and network metrics.
• Alerts are now raised in XenCenter if the storage subsystem is unable to perform data merging after deletion of snapshots due to a lack of space.
• Add the capability to xenserver-status-report to gather SCSI device provisioning modes.
• Update AMD microcode to 2024-11-21 drop
• Improvements to the performance and resilience of background coalesce operations on SMAPIv3 SRs such as XFS and GFS2.
• Improvements to the efficiency of the xapi database, as well as Active Directory authentication.