2.3 What’s New or Changed in NSS (OES 2018 SP1)

NSS provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 2018 SP1:

Support for 4Kn Advance Format

The traditional storage industry have been using a native 512 bytes physical sector size for hard drives. Due to the increasing demand for hard drives with larger capacities, the storage industry introduced an advanced format called 4K Native (4Kn) that uses 4096 bytes physical sectors.

Beginning with OES 2018 SP1, OES supports the advanced format (4Kn) that uses 4096 bytes physical sectors. However, OES also supports the emulation of 512 byte sector size to support the legacy 512 byte sectors. 512 emulation (512e) is the advanced format in which the physical sector size is 4,096 bytes, but the logical sector size emulates 512 bytes sector size.

OES User Rights Map (URM) UI Enhancements

Beginning with OES 2018 SP1, the VIEW RIGHTS page of OES URM is enhanced to provide a paired view of rights for both eDirectory and Active Directory trustees. Also, the user interface is refreshed to provide a new and modern look.