Abiquo 1.6.8 features
NetApp external storage
We have added a new external storage connector to allow managing NetApp storage technologies from the Abiquo platform. Also, a new installation profile has been added to the installation process to easilly install it.
Take a look at the NetApp Storage Connector installation guide to see more details.
Redis store
The Redis store has been added as the new backend storage for the Datacenter events to improve scalability.
External storage in XenServer
You can now use external storage features with XenServer hypervisor and StorageLink. All StorageLink supported technologies can be used.
Check out the XenServer Cloud Node installation guide for more details about setting it up.
Accounting
Having an accounting functionality is essential for payment models development in Cloud Computing. Since 1.6.8, Abiquo Enterprise Edition adds an amount of services to inform what and when a resource is being used providing quantity, timestamps and any other useful data for an enterprise. Accounting reports data on the following resources:
- Virtual machines virtual cores (cpu)
- Vitual machines ram
- Virtual machines hard disk
- External storage
- Public IPs reserved
- VLANs created
Resolved issues
Abiquo 1.6.8 comes with the following resolved issues, new features and improvements:
Bugs
- ABICLOUD-501 - Too many connexions to database
- ABICLOUD-565 - RPC Fault exception when access to infrastructure with session timeout
- ABICLOUD-663 - Subscription are not renewed when restarting remote services server
- ABICLOUD-672 - API: Some problems creating remote services
- ABICLOUD-694 - Filter by VM in datacenter does not work
- ABICLOUD-696 - Checks ESX license
- ABICLOUD-709 - Same remote port assigned to all VM deployed in same VApp
- ABICLOUD-721 - Can not deploy in XenServer 5.5
- ABICLOUD-722 - AM Remote Service can be deleted when Virtual Images are being used
- ABICLOUD-723 - API: Check status host does not work
- ABICLOUD-724 - Sanity scripts: Checking event sync adress always is OK
- ABICLOUD-728 - Some images with no conversion are displayed in no compatible VApp
- ABICLOUD-729 - Catch Exception when deploy if datastore is full
- ABICLOUD-730 - Datastore used size is not correctly updated in some cases
- ABICLOUD-732 - Catch error when power on/off VM when hypervisor is disconnected
- ABICLOUD-735 - Changing the default password (admin/xabiquo) results in failure to remote repository
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-229 - Wrong semaphor color for a volume stateful when reattach it
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-283 - After an error in physical machine, hyper-v is not monitorized anymore
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-300 - Can capture VM to a virtualApp from another datacenter
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-323 - Can not manage a captured VM with name > 32 caracters
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-325 - Check IP correctness, when multi machine is added.
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-333 - Incorret statistics for virtual machine
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-344 - Can't create Stateful images after a server sestart
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-354 - iSCSI Initiator management at Virtual Machine level
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-357 - Improve error when downloading an image and NFS is full
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-359 - Improve error when generate stateful and NFS is full
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-362 - Impossible to create a bundle of an application with two instances of the same image
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-367 - It is possible to deploy with expired licenses if checking PM state
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-368 - Extrange behivour in LVM plugin and Virtualbox
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-369 - Checking Pool when delete
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-373 - Error when undeploy a VApp with captured VM
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-377 - Modify Node Collector response when a physical machine is not managed
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-379 - XEN and KVM crash with "Too many active clients" LibvirtException
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-380 - I can't order ethX
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-382 - Can not deploy big images in XenServer
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-385 - Avoid Log when a session expired in Log file
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-386 - JVM crashes in remote service machine when updating xen machines
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-407 - Can not generate stateful in pool with different host and management IP
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-409 - Wrong message info when leasing a Public IP
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-419 - Bad vnc port assigned in ESXi if a previous error occurred.
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-443 - Stateful volumes from shared images are visible for all enterprises
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-456 - Unhandled exception when adding and removing an image in deployed VApp
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-458 - Can not download images using a Proxy
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-508 - VLAN tag assignation is not optimized
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-509 - Same VLAN tag assigned in to different VDC
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-576 - Unexpected Windows error [0x8001FFFF] prevent deploy/undeploy
Improvements
- ABICLOUD-667 - improve table remote_service in database
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-304 - Edit "Enabled" checkbox should be permited
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-337 - Add variable to block user/enterprise capacities
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-348 - Avoid to select a datastore by default
- ABICLOUDPREMIUM-466 - Change default port to 80 instead of 8080 everywhere (Web UI, configs, etc)
Release timeline
Abiquo Enterprise Edition will be released on 15/11/2010.
The Abiquo Community Edition is only released with major releases.
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