Upgrade to InsightIQ 5 or wait?

Hello mjzraz

Here is a link to Dell Technologies InsightIQ Installation Guide, and if you look at chapter 5 it list out the upgrade paths. https://dell.to/4dxkSsq

Since you are at version 4 I would upgrade to 5 when you can, then upgrade to 5.1 once released.

We upgraded to 5, but it kept losing connections to the clusters all the time. Didnt seem stable, so we downgraded to 4 again. Also, the 5 doesnt have a nice dashboard with aggregated stats for all your clusters which is a big downside IMO. We have that dashboard permanently on a bigscreen for our monitor people to keep an eye on.

we have constant disconnections with 5.0 its terrible, are there any accurate timescales for 5.1 release do people know?

Hello storageSysAdmin,

I am not seeing a release date eta for 5.1 currently.

5.1 is out and seems more stable than 5.0, where I was having the same issues as reported.  As also mentioned, it doesn't have as many features as 4.0, which is predictable for Dell.  An "upgrade" loses functions, adds logos.

@watson-alix​ What features are missing from 4.0? I ended up upgrading to 4.3 for now and are doing 9.7 LTS on our onefs and I was just now thinking about 5.1 and found this discussion that I forgot about.