Release Notes 1.8

Platform Changes

Abiquo 1.8 Pilaf includes the following new features:

• Full Role Based Access Control – Define unlimited roles and select from over 45 privileges for each. Create your own roles and assign their privileges. Global roles and Enterprise roles are available to adapt your platform to your needs.

• LDAP/AD Integration – Users and roles optionally defined in LDAP. Login authenticated through LDAP.

• VMware Distributed Virtual Switch - Abiquo can work in VMware infrastructures with dVS, allowing advanced network management.

• High Availability – Restart VMs if host fails. First release of generic Abiquo HA. If a host fails, Abiquo moves the VMs to another host.

• Persistent Volume Management – iSCSI volumes can be added to an enterprise's virtual storage pool using the IQN and LUN. For companies that want to manage storage devices other than NetApp, Nexenta or LVM. System administrators can create volumes in the storage device and assign these volumes to an enterprise's virtual storage pool.

• Cisco UCS Discovery and Power Management - First UCS integration in the Abiquo platform. Detect UCS devices, discover blades and power on/off blades.

• Secure VNC Connections to VMs - VNC connections are now password enabled.

• Configurable Reservation – Allows you to restrict an enterprise to reserved machines. In enterprise creation you can now strictly reserve machines for an enterprise. Otherwise, an enterprise with reserved machines can use these machines and the shared pool of resources for all enterprises.

• API Extensions – Allows VM Start/Stop/Pause and Rules management. New features in the API for this release. Now you can power on/off, reset or pause a virtual machine and all rules management is through the API.

• Accounting enhancements - Allows you to define cost codes for VM images (e.g. for Windows licenses). You can charge a different price depending on the template selected by the user.

• Basic Power-on Order - Now you can determine the deploy order of VMs inside a virtual appliance based on VM names.

• Storage Improvements - Storage management is now more usable with a more streamlined storage attach process.

• Billing URL - This feature allows the cloud provider to integrate Abiquo into the billing system.

• Minor GUI and Error Message Enhancements - Improved usability.

• Bugfixing of issues detected - For example, orphan issues and IQN re-use.

Installer Changes

This version brings significant improvements to the installer. We have improved the installation workflow and defined default values to help users install more quickly.

Evaluation users can choose the Cloud in a Box install directly for a streamlined install process with automatic disc layout and formatting in a 10 GB logical volume.

The Advanced install components have been grouped into Abiquo Platform, Cloud Nodes, Storage Servers and Additional Components. Under the Advanced install option, users can choose their own disk layout or select the default 10 GB layout. The Abiquo Platform components include Distributed, Monolithic, and Cloud in Box (for advanced evaluation users). You can combine the components to customize your install, for example, a recommended combination is the Monolithic Install plus the NFS Repository.

Resolved issues

Bug

• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-719] - Do not allow modification of the appliance manager if the repository is being used and it changes location
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-992] - The default action for adding an image with an instance is incorrect
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1174] - Sometimes link construction is wrong in the API
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1225] - Conversions sent to non-existent or failed BPM should fail
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1252] - Can add an image that is not compatible after creating a new PM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1259] - The Volumes list cannot be sorted by status
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1298] - Modify error "The health check for this virtual appliance was not successful" when a VM is crashed
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1368] - Grammar error in Not enough resources message
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1451] - No NFS repository means you should not be able to download Apps
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1452] - Modify message for softlimit to enterprise admin
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1455] - After a reboot, network configuration of Linux nodes disappears.
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1468] - Cannot update appliance library while image is downloading
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1470] - Wrong information in the Soft/Hard Limit Pop-up (IP)
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1480] - Wrong WORKLOAD_SOFT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED trace in Events
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1482] - Edit enterprise - Reservations tab behaves strangely
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1483] - Cannot see the edit tooltip
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1509] - When an email address is added to the Cloud Administrator account, the CA can't change to another Enterprise
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1512] - Google maps latitude limit erroneous
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1542] - Server error when powering off a VM and selecting other VMs during the process
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1546] - It is possible to create a Rack / Datacenter / Physical Machine without a name
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1552] - Null server response when saving a Vapp which has been deleted by another user
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1554] - Shouldn't be possible to remove the "Appliance Manager" Remote Service if there are images in a Virtual Appliance
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1556] - Cosmetic error showing the size of the pools
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1557] - V2V fails if the image name has spaces
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1573] - Background process causes a problem when the Soft Limit pop-up is displayed
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1574] - Public IP statistics is not refreshed properly in home screen
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1575] - Not possible to power off a captured VM in Hyper-V
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1577] - Show event when generating an instance
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1579] - Statistics: Virtual datacenter not updated properly when changing enterprise
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1593] - Cloud admin removed with impersonate
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1604] - [don't restrict access] button on user edit doesn't work
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1607] - The field "Message" doesn't send in the Email
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1609] - When the NFS only has read permissions and you try to download an image, no trace appears in events and server.
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1610] - Infinite loop when trying to download an image with the NFS stopped
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1611] - Cannot modify a user role
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1612] - Modify confirmation message for instance
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1625] - Use the ISO 8601 standard for dates
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1626] - When an enterprise with reserved Physical Machines is removed, the DB isn't updated
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1629] - Networking Resource Upgrade fails if all the VLAN tags are public
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1631] - In XENSERVER, if you add a new node and edit the CPU and RAM, it's not possible to deploy this VM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1632] - If you configure a hypervisor's datastore with a slash at the end of the path, retrieve VMs fails
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1633] - Null message when creating restrict shared server rule with no enterprise
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1638] - Captured machines shouldn't be registered in the "accounting_event_detail" table
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1639] - After changing the AM repository, all images have idRepository NULL
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1641] - It's not possible to remove a VDC which has more than one associated VLAN
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1642] - When a VDC with Public IPs added is removed in less than an hour, it isn't registered in the "accounting_event_detail" table
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1644] - When a VDC with added Public IP is removed and then created in another VDC with the same Public IP, the tables "accounting_event_ips" and "accounting_event_detail" aren't updated
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1645] - When a VDMK_FLAT image is dowloaded, it's converted to VDI but it's not necessary (No added Physical Machines)
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1646] - Change "not managed" virtual machine icon
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1647] - Preserve current state when background process updates data
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1650] - Update some label concepts
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1656] - When a QCOW2 image is downloaded, all conversions fail
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1660] - There is a typo in the message shown for setting an invalid netmask when creating VLANs
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1662] - If the option "Restrict servers reservation" is enabled without reserved PM, a message should display that you can't deploy with any PMs
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1663] - Error when capturing VMs with invalid characters in name
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1666] - Local Upload dialog doesn't appear in Internet Explorer 8
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1671] - Wrong message for the User and Enterprise_admin when they try to create a volume with stopped RS
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1672] - MAC address is not shown in the standard format for vBox
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1676] - abiquo-tomcat.jar shows abiquo 1.7.5
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1677] - abiquo-tomcat.jar has virtualCpuForCore set to 4
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1678] - VLAN scheduler doesn't work
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1679] - Public VLAN must be in range of rack
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1691] - Remove VM's VLAN rack assignment when removing a physical machine
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1692] - Remove deprecated parameters in config file
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1709] - The Statistics aren't updated properly (Storage and External Storage)
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1710] - Error deploying over KVM/Xen with QCOW2 source image
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1722] - When a Persistent Image is created, the External Storage statistics aren't updated properly
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1726] - "machien" instead of machine in error message
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1727] - Error adding a host with a long datastore name
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1728] - Wrong resource checked in persistent deploy
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1732] - Unexhaustive generic message when saving allocation rules
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1751] - Delete property for enabling VirtualBox or not
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1765] - ESXi does not update the device mappings when NetApp reassigns LUNs
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1794] - Long physical machine name causes an ALLOC-1 error
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1802] - The details of a VM cannot be edited when it is in running state
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1805] - Alloc-1 error exceeding CPU or RAM resources when editing a VM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1808] - Add information when creating VDC with VLAN hard limit that exceeds allowed VLANs per VDC
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1816] - VSM doesn't detect MOVE event on KVM cluster
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1819] - Incorrect message when creating Volumes and VDC limits will be exceeded
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1822] - Not possible to delete images from the Apps library
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1823] - OK message when a local image has not really been uploaded to the Apps Library
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1824] - API: Can create a virtual datacenter with a user from another enterprise
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1833] - The error message RACK-4 contains a typo
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1847] - Cannot deploy in KVM, XEN if some ports are already in use
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1852] - The maximum allowed characters for "name" and "description" of a volume, don't match the DB
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1861] - Cannot cancel a downloading image
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1862] - Failed to retrieve VM if datastore is "/"
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1866] - Can remove a datacenter assigned to an enterprise with VDC already created
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1880] - Canceling virtual image download does not effectively stop the HTTP connection
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1889] - External Storage current usage is not properly computed
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1890] - Limit exception thrown when creating the 9th VDC
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1897] - If using two different folders on the same NFS server as NFS repository, ESXi cannot distingish between them
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1898] - Add abiquo-aim.ini support to abicli
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1904] - Badly formed message after sending an email from a physical machine
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1905] - There is the option to send email to all owners of a "Virtual Machine" when sending an email from a Physical machine
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1906] - Sending an email to all the Administrators of the current enterprise, the mail is really sent to all the Administrators of the Abiquo environment
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1915] - After edit an existing volume, if you try to create a new volume with the default Tier, a NULL server response is displayed
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1922] - Modify literals for network resource security quotient in VLAN scheduler
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1923] - The tiers shown for creating a persistent VM when there is more than 1 datacenter correspond to another datacenter
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1924] - Wrong behavior when the "Edit Storage Pool" pop-up is displayed
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1926] - Enabling a physical machine after HA results in indefinite move of VM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1932] - Deployment failed updating a virtualapp when the soft limit is reached
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1938] - Use integer scale for Virtual CPUs and VLANs
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1951] - It is possible to filter Volume List by any field except volume_id and total size.
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1956] - Unable to connect to configuration server
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1961] - When you try to delete anything, the icon which appears in the pop-up is not the correct icon.
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1962] - The values sent by the server when the Soft_Limit pop-up is displayed are incorrect
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1963] - Update the 'Reserved" Public IP value
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1972] - Null pointer exception when sending an email to a user with an empty mail address
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1974] - Wrong message is displayed for the instances from Virtual Machines' images
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1981] - Wrong hard tracer VDC limits
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2008] - The used external storage doesn't work propertly because of the units sent by the server
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2009] - "Workload engine" instead of "Reglas de asignación" in the Spanish UI
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2021] - The edition of a physical machine cannot be canceled if a datastore is not selected
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2044] - Incorrect driver prevents persistent image starting correctly in Xen

Improvement

• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-299] - OMAPI connection error not traced in the GUI.
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-873] - Avoid the case where a VAPP has state = crashed/unknown and substate = in_progress
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1019] - Pools Support in XenServer
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1246] - Streamline attaching/mounting a volume on a VM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1248] - Processes with volumes should be done without undeploying a VM
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1286] - Allow user to choose the provisioning type for storage pools
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1465] - Optimize vertical axis of statistic graphics
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1651] - Deletion dialogs - missing VM names sometimes
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1652] - Improve Physical Machine Creation
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1654] - Change the "expanding icon" from rack list
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1657] - Improve the deployment of persistent VMs
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1787] - 'All' filter doesn't work
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1818] - Review deploy process with multiple VMs to try to mantain an order defined by user
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1840] - [ESXi] trying to enable software iSCSI results in an exception
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-1933] - Change First login approach
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2014] - Show the results in the same order in vsm console page
• [ABICLOUDPREMIUM-2039] - [VFR] reconfigure networks