Abiquo 4.6
These release notes are for Abiquo v4.6.x versions. For previous versions, see Release notes for previous 4.x versions
4.6.0
For platform and component upgrades, see Changes#4.6 For changes to the Abiquo API, see https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/#changelog. Changes to the Abiquo user interface configuration are described in Changes to UI configuration To upgrade all Abiquo Platform Servers, follow the notes in Upgrade Abiquo. Features described in the New in Abiquo 4.6 section. 11775 Simplify the creation of an autoscaling action 11745 Monitoring performance test ⚔ 11210 Add backup in pricing and pricing template models 11208 Set allocation limits at the provider level 11205 Azure VPN 11173 Azure: Update price information from Azure in each HP in the Enterprise Pricing Model 11172 AWS: Create process to get price (PVP) from AWS price list and update HP prices in Enterprise Pricing list 11816 Improvements in monitoring. See Configure VM Monitoring and Metrics 11796 Encrypt internal account ID for Azure, which is "subscription_ID#application_ID#tenant_ID" (not pricing access ID) 11779 Add currency to pricing for public cloud region and datacenter level, which will also be used in pricing estimate 10760 New Discovery manager remote service (NARS). 12109 Log failed executions in nars log 12087 Improve display of virtual appliance pricing button and currency in UI 12086 User interface - error StackTraces always display "Show less" 12079 UI - Scope - allow create/edit with all enterprises and parent scope 12052 Fix options button of VM so that it always displays; if there are no options, display an "empty" message when the user activates the button 12042 ARM - Add new Azure regions in South Africa 11991 Get prices from provider should apply currency of region from pricing 11933 vCenter-tags tool - Allow user to specify which tags to apply. If no list of tags to apply is specified, apply all tags 11917 Retrieve metrics from powered off VMs in VCD live metrics / ESX. 11905 For a Scaling group, display scaling actions with action plans / alerts / alarms / metrics, when the user edits the scaling group 11904 Create defaults for a Scaling group in the UI. The defaults are in the UI configuration (client-config-default.json) and the admin can configure them 11898 Add an empty view to VApp list: include a message telling the user to create a VApp and a create button. 11807 UI performance: remove "last_task" query param from virtual appliances list 11805 UI performance: remove query param ''expand=last_task'' in list virtual appliances 11784 UI - track asynchronous tasks of a user on VDCs and VPNs. New Tasks tab in Events view. 11783 New API endpoint to list asynctasks of a user 11778 In Infrastructure view, Public and Private should be managed by different privileges 11718 Create events when the platform runs an action plan 11667 ARM - Hide NIC sequence because plugin does not support reorder 11666 Allow push of data points to scaling group slave VMs. User cannot create alarms for custom metrics of clone VMs. Scaling groups have alarms that use all the aggregate of metrics of all VMs 11376 Scopes - Should be able to add a scope with "Use all Datacenters" / "Use all enterprises" to a hierarchy 11374 API - Return public cloud region's Account ID for enterprise credentials 11338 Upgrade Liquibase Version in development environments 11317 Define which interfaces a Device could implement and generate DevicePluginManager 11250 UI - Remember last language used. All lang_xx_XX_labels.json files MUST end with an "__EOF" label (with double underscore character "_") We have added the label for en_US and es_ES. 11131 Action plan entry templates are using String where integer/long applies 10296 Allow user to set their own private network gateway. 10252 Avoid error log in Watchtower emmett.log for getMetric if metric is not found 10160 We are trying to retrieve metrics from powered off VMs. This is legitimate because some measurements could exist before power off 10027 Load Balancers - Modify action should notify that an embedded address is required 9717 Load Balancers - Not able to attach them into VDC after synchronization process. Requires Load balancers tab at VDC level 12190 vCloud - Undeploy action fails when using cloud-init with multiple orgVdcs 12169 vCloud - Existing VMs in OFF state are automatically set to Power ON after deploying another VM 12153 Cannot capture VM with 2 SCSI and 1 DVD if using ''abiquo.capturedhcp'' property to capture DHCP configuration 12151 Cannot reconfigure a captured VM with 2 SCSI and 1 DVD. Allow modifications that do not affect disk. Known issue key 12154 with disconnected default client DVD on SATA 0:0 related to possible changes from vCenter 6.5 12098 Error accessing a VApp with pricing - It is possible to have create a VM with CPU / RAM values by editing hardware profiles 12088 Error when entering a VApp when user does not have "Access Pricing view" privilege 12071 Backup result check running while backup or restore is in progress causes duplicated results in DB and future errors. 12044 Jenkins - packages sometimes come without "powershell-scripts/filelist" file 12040 Action plan entry 'send email' should send email from the platform, not from the user who created the action plan 12026 Changing hardware profile in Azure does not upgrade the old one in the platform after sync 11989 ARM - Reconfigure fails at random when checking Disk SKU to handle premium storage. Abiquo does not support premium storage in Azure 11974 Veeam jobs are not disabled when the VMs are undeployed if they were vMotioned before 11930 All allowed vCloud regions are listed in the Apps Library (even if no credentials are added) 11924 Events lost: cannot store some events with long entity names in the database 11903 Ec2 billing - "billing_period_enddate" values not added to API correctly 11901 Improve VM list performance for more than 100 VMs 11844 Remove auto-create of virtual appliance when creating virtual datacenter. Now a user must create a virtual appliance in order to create a VM. Added an extra button to encourage user to create a VM 11842 The IP fields for creating a physical machine should accept host name (FQDN). This includes Server IP for discovery, Manager IP, Service IP, Agent IP, and IPMI IP 11841 Editing VM from Infrastructure / VMs tab, user is not able to save 11839 Default cloud admin user needs a default email. Default is now none at abiquo com. Please change the cloud admin's email address when you first log in! 11686 API pagination of hardware profiles in public cloud region does not work 11681 ARM - Cannot reconfigure a VM added to a firewall 11668 Amazon - Add support for AWS China Northwest region Ticket: 11650 Abiquo RAM metric has incorrect description (abq-ram-usage) 11639 Unable to create concurrently alarms for same metric 11498 Review labels in Spanish 11446 ARM - Cannot undeploy a VM with multiple NICs and assigned to multiple SGs/FWs 11429 ARM - Undeploy VM fails if there are names repeated in provider 11402 Restrict access to VDC has a behavior contrary to the expected. Label changed to "Limit access to VDCs" 11401 Errors in Virtual Machines Resource method names for API docs 11386 Load balancer attached Nodes preview does not show NOT_ALLOCATED VMs 11385 Editing a VM, the button to "Synchronize public IPs" doesn't work 11380 Invalid pricing model - enterprise association is not correctly maintained after switching enterprise 11375 Bad scroll over scroll in VApp spec review window 11358 Azure ARM - Error deploying with nonexistent network 11332 vCloud - Synced private networks are recreated in the platform with wrong address. Private network CIDR was using the first IP in the scope range, but it should use a network address. No database upgrade is done, user must import a VDC again to fix the issue. 11328 Selecting wrong provider while attaching enterprise credentials perform bad requests 11246 Change to tokens in OpenID authentication. See Abiquo OpenID Connect Integration 11192 Veeam - Backups do not expire in Abiquo so we show results of backups that have expired in Veeam. 11176 Wrong URL in event management for datastore tier creation 11147 Azure - Not possible to delete public IP without VDC 11128 Stored Procedure VM_HOURS takes too long and causes connections to time out. Added new index to accounting database 10984 vcenter-tags tool - Should use vmname query parameter 10867 Missing virtual appliance name in 'Create restricted VApp' event 10854 Veeam - Error in list_results method if restore_result state stays IN_PROGRESS 10621 Delete disks that are not in repo when VM destroy request is received (Cloud-init ISO) 10551 Improve management of concurrent creation of public IPs 10472 It's not possible to edit the description of backup policies when they are assigned to a VM. User can now edit: name, code, description 10466 UI - Create Load balancer displays subnets section even when private IPs are not allowed by configuration 10346 Incomplete "ESX needs reboot" message. Added HostSystem name (customer name and its mob id) to logs and exceptions in the discovery process 9090 Resellers can display the pricing model applied to their tenant, but they should also be able to display its pricesPlatform changes
New features
Key Description
Replaces old Discovery Manager (NODECOLLECTOR) and Cloud Provider Proxy (CPP)Improvements
Key Description 11448 jclouds - Implement detection of SKUs for Load Balancers and Public IPs
If you do not add this label for other languages, then the UI will not load correctly, and the login form will not display.Resolved Issues
12238 Not able to upload ISO file (mandatory ''requiredRAMInMB'' ) 4.5.x 4.4.1, 4.5.x 12149 Stoptime value in "accouting_event_vm","accouting_event_vm_on" and "accouting_event_vm_off" should be NULL for synced VMs Ticket: 5931 11919 vCloud - Retrieving templates returns VIM_NOT_CONNECTED error. Adjust vCloud timeouts to allow template retrieval 11854 Upgraded liquibase version to 3.1.1 11769 Reconfigure operations stop ongoing backup accounting events
58404.2.x Ticket: 5735, 5903 Ticket: 5691 Ticket: 5529 Selected known issue
Key Description 11902 Amazon - Creating a VDC no longer retrieves its "default" firewall. User must click button to "Synchronize firewalls" to retrieve the default firewall
4.6.1
Key Summary 12186 Improve Optimization dashboard 4.6.1. See Dashboard improvements. If your documentation contains screenshots, you may wish to update them. 12082 Enable administrator to create multiple VDCs for NSX-ECMP Plugin by entering context properties. See Create more than one VDC in NSX ECMP 12030 Private IP Reservation via Abiquo. See Private IP reservation 11830 Default firewall policy for a VDC. See Default firewalls for virtual datacenters 11828 Move a VM between two VDCs. See Move a VM to a different VDC Key Summary 12367 Veeam - Try not to lose old backups if product API fails when returning results 12356 API/MODEL - Add VM_RETRIEVE_INITIAL_PASSWORD privilege to allow administrator to retrieve initial password, as well as VM owner 12354 Round down percentages over 100% on Optimization dashboard for KVM hypervisor 12350 UI - Enable user other than VM owner to retrieve initial password with new privilege 12348 ARM - Increase default polling interval to improve performance and reduce API rate limit concerns. 12335 ARM - Deploy operations force too many unneeded calls 12326 Do not show "Default credentials" button if the VM does not have a user and a password, from the VM template. 12319 Adapt Azure billing dashboard script to use new token model for CSP. See Changes to Azure CSP credentials 12318 Adapt Azure price list synchronization process to use token for CSP. See Changes to Azure CSP credentials 12312 ARM - Improvements in listAllLoadBalancers in jclouds 12309 Do not log large, unhelpful stack trace when UI aborts certain requests 12301 Interpret constraint ''SNAPSHOT_CANNOT_SELECT_HARD_DISKS''. 12276 Fix links for metrics with '/' in the name 12274 Review links using entity name in API path to check for URL encoding 12200 UI should use the "TEMPLATE_LIST_CAN_FILTER_OSTYPE" constraint. 12191 Improve efficiency during JSON communications with NARS 12189 Optimization dashboard - MostTimeOn - change to "Most time deployed" and use VM attributes to get the value 12188 Optimization dashboard - MostTimeOn - Undeployed VMs should not be shown 12187 Metrics - To get vmUsage of CPU/RAM used over/under a percentage and limit results via API, add query parameters. 12167 Improve import template in vCloud Director by not including OsType for the list of templates to import via API 12141 Add Cores per Socket in vCloud Director for templates and VMs. See Improvements to vCloud Director Integration 12133 ARM - Improvements to listNetworkSecurityGroups (firewalls) in Azure jclouds provider and Abiquo plugin 12132 ARM - Improvements to listVirtualMachines in Azure plugin 12131 ARM - Improvements to listVirtualMachines in Azure jclouds provider 12126 ARM - Use VPC providerId in virtual machine identifier to avoid checking all the resource groups 12121 ARM - Skip obtaining all versions of an SKU in a template search and only return the latest version available for deploy 12107 User interface - Interpret missing properties error during create virtual datacenter 12046 Fix provider column in the UsageDetailVW view so that it is based on the hypervisor type 11934 Remove deprecated API fields from UI, especially for usage of enterprise resources and limits 10589 ARM - Improve code efficiency when checking existing IPs by using new API calls 10416 vCenter - Virtual remote desktop IP address (vrdIp) is not always obtained from the hypervisor. 8491 Add a warning message when importing a Marketplace template so user can accept EULA in the AWS console Key Summary 12417 AWS - Error trying to access information about network interfaces of hardware profiles that are not defined in Abiquo 12384 Cannot get the async task after creating a virtual datacenter when the location is not in scope 12370 For enterprises with accounts that are not managed (i.e. not CSP), the platform should not look for discounts and price factor properties 12366 vCloud Director - Sometimes cpu, coresXsocket, or ram of a deployed VM are not the values from the Abiquo VM configuration. 12345 OpenID - User deactivation issue 12320 Action plan - Old email address appears when creating a second action plan 12300 vCloud - Cannot take instance of an imported virtual machine 12295 vCloud - Cannot synchronize or use firewalls (NOT classic firewall) created using a version prior to 4.6 12289 Conversions lose VHD extension so Azure Export fails 12286 Dashboard widgets - public IPs are not displayed as Unused IPs when they are created but not purchased yet 12285 Show virtual machines usage and limits on Metrics tab of dashboard for enterprise resources and VDC resources 12278 "Infinity" value displays in "Average cost per virtual machine" on billing dashboard on Hybrid tab 12277 "Needs synchronization" message on VApp is confusing. Changed to "Partially deployed" 12275 Create/Edit Alarm/Alert events won't work for unresolvable IPs (i.e. Public API IP) 12267 vCloud - Synchronization process does not detect extra disks on VMs (but import does). 12264 API documentation - Missing forward slash in method URL for get VLAN tag availability in a datacenter 12252 Failed reconfigure does not restore the layer/anti-affinity rules 12251 User interface - Error in connection data for check, before creating physical machine 12249 ARM - jclouds - 409 Conflict concurrently creating rules in Firewall. Changes made in jclouds 12245 Error creating an action plan with a name longer than 40 characters 12240 Accounting does not stop for VMs when we DELETE instead of UNDEPLOY 12236 Failed reconfigure does not restore the network configuration 12231 Edit physical machine form auto-completes password with user stored by browser 12230 API documentation - text area does not display an example properly in Firefox 12219 Layers - VM cannot be selected while it is being deployed 12201 ARM - Delete private network returns OK but sometimes does NOT delete the subnet in Azure 12183 Add new OSTYPES (ESX). Upgrade to CIM 2.51.0 Add GuestOsIdentifiers from 6.7. Recognize new ostypes in OVF. 12106 Amazon - New ARM architecture requires recommended HP not supported by Abiquo 12078 No vCloud Director on credentials tab when creating an enterprise but it is present on the edit dialog 12031 Provide ContextProperties from request - Create more than one VDC in NSX-ECMP 11902 Amazon - Creating a VDC no longer retrieves the "default" firewall 11900 Amazon - Error synchronizing firewalls when no VPCs 11814 User interface - Undeploy post sends a VM but specifies virtualmachinetask media type, and undeploying a VM requires forceUndeploy attribute 11639 Unable to concurrently create two alarms for the same metric 11116 Azure - Sync floating IP used by load balancer is not updating VDC. 10237 Backup - API returns an error if the JSON payload is missing a Type attribute 9810 vCenter plugin does not filter management IPs.Features
Notes
Also, s part of the dashboard CSS improvements, you can customize the widget panel background color in your theme style sheet. See Changes to brandingImprovements
Notes Ticket: 6049 Ticket: 6054 Ticket: 6054
Customers using Azure should apply the new defaults in abiquo.properties for existing installations:abiquo.vsm.pollingfrequency.azurecompute-arm=900000
abiquo.vsm.vmsyncfrequency.azurecompute-arm=900000
abiquo.vsm.vmmetrics.collectfrequency.azurecompute-arm=300000
12344 Improve hybrid dashboard. See Dashboard improvements
Remember that your changes to templates will only affect new VMs created after you save the changes
CSP customers must use a dashboard to onboard partners and obtain consent, then obtain tokens. See Microsoft PDF documentation
vCloud will return true so the instance should not provide the option to select the disks of the VM
By default the constraint is true. When false, the UI should not show the OS selection in the dialog that lists templates to import.
In UI configuration, add default values for dashboard. See Configure Abiquo UI
Support multiple virtual datacenters in NSX-ECMP with different values of certain properties for each VDC.
When a request fails, the UI should use a JSON schema to look up the description and type of missing properties.
Then it should display a form for the user to fill in those properties and retry the request, adding those values in a header.
See Create more than one VDC in NSX ECMP and Configure Abiquo UI
For vCenter clusters use given IPs, IPs in given networks, or as identified for management traffic.
See Detect vCenter management IPsResolved Issues
Notes
Check that the values configured in the VM have priority over the values of the template12276 Encode metric names to resolve link issue
See Improvements to vCloud Director Integration
See Guest operating system definition for VMwareTicket: 5998
Sync IPs will fix this issue, but a full VDC sync may cause the issue to recur
See Detect vCenter management IPs
4.6.2
Key Summary 12462 Error in Azure ARM server response makes the provider unusable: you cannot add credentials, import templates, or deploy VMs. We have decided not to wait for the Azure fix because the problem has been fixed through jclouds. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1503 This version of Abiquo has the latest version of jclouds to fix the issue in customer environments.Resolved Issues
4.6.3
Key Summary 12147 Use JSON templates for Action plans. This feature enables clients of the API (including the UI) to obtain the details of actions in JSON format for use in creating action plans, making the API easier to use. 12104 Introduce read-only and hidden enterprise properties. 10689 Usage API to get Accounting and Billing information. See Usage data in VM hours from the API Key Summary 12469 Support Veeam version 9.5.4a, which does not work with the previous Veeam plugin. Created a new plugin to support Veeam 9.5 update version 4. Dropped support for Veeam 8.0. Key Summary 12522 Error while reconfiguring a VM in a layer with special characters in its name 12520 Connection leak in VF when client connects to message queue after a failure. Key Summary 12510 Cannot change remote access password when using hot reconfigure of remote access. This is a VMware issue with ESXi version >= 6.5Features
Notes Improvements
Notes Custom vCloud Director pricing 12480 Add Azure Dubai region 12474 Internal VNC password improvement on ESXi Ticket: 12457 12420 On Optimization dashboard for highest and lowest panels for CPU and RAM, add percentage over and under 12362 Use APIError codes when a LimitErrorException occurs 12359
Customers will require new licenses and they should delete the previous Backup manager and create a new one, selecting the new Backup plugin.Ticket: 6062 12313 ARM - Improvements in listAllVirtualNetworks in jclouds 12123 Improve AMQPProducer reliability 12053 Improvements to Default role tab for Allowed datacenters. Add a privilege "Manage default VDC roles" to allow access to the tab. Prevent users from creating a VDC if they will not have enough privileges to work in it: this can occur when the user does not have the "No VDC restriction" privilege and the default VDC role is read only. See Control VDC default roles for enterprises in locations 11899 UI - Show pricing estimate message when moving VM between VDCs. See Move a VM to a different VDC Resolved Issues
Notes 12528 Azure - Cannot create an instnace 12526 Machine update (add machine or periodic check) does not apply any changes - returns empty clusters for a vCenter machine Error retrieving action plans when an old one exists without scaling group attached to VM 12491 Missing logo for 4.5 and 4.6 12479 vCloud - cannot redeploy a VM under certain conditions 12476 Cannot change VNC password (ESXi version >= 6.5) 12470 Default network in VDC does not store ranges for NSX-ECMP. Default gateway IP from autogenerated private network is created and available to be attached 12464 In API resource documentation, links to API methods are not working properly 12458 Optimization dashboard widgets should filter by "average" parameter, not maximum or minimum 12457 Improve VNC connection on ESXi Ticket: 6071 12436 Pricing credentials tab must only be displayed if users have the MANAGE_PRICING_CREDENTIALS privilege 12357 Revoke users' sessions when they are deactivated 12338 Creating a VM generates accounting rows 12328 Events tab option to update automatically does not work 12325 Azure - Abiquo can import VPCs or VNets in locations other than the selected region 12291 Amazon - Do not allow users to add unusable public cloud regions. When adding credentials, check that it is possible to connect. 12240 Accounting does not stop for VMs when user directly uses DELETE action instead of UNDEPLOY 11852 Ticket: 5897 11852 Error deploying VM with more than 1 private IP in the same network Known Issues
Notes
4.6.4
Key Summary 12610 Key Summary On the Infrastructure Statistics screen, the labels show "Available"/"Used" for VMs. These should be: VMs Powered On/Powered Off 12603 Billing dashboard - Rename enterprise properties for price factor and discount. The old property names have been deleted. You must use the new property names to display data on the Billing dashboard. The changes are as follows: 12601 For Cost Usage API, rename enterprise properties and in billing period. The old property names have been deleted. You must use the new properties to obtain Cost Usage reports. The changes are as follows:Features and Improvements
Notes On the Optimization dashboard "Virtual machines - longest time deployed" should display the time threshold. To configure the threshold, see Configure Abiquo UI 12602 Default Role for virtual datacenters: the administrator should be able to assign a role for a provider to copy to all regions. See Set a default role to limit tenant access to VDCs in a provider or location 12053 Improvements with Default role tab for allowed datacenters. Apply "Manage VDC default roles" privilege for Allowed Datacenters. See Set a default role to limit tenant access to VDCs in a provider or location Resolved issues
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