Abiquo 4.7
These release notes are for Abiquo v4.7.x versions.
For previous versions, see Release notes for previous 4.x versions
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4.7.0
For platform and component upgrades, see Changes#4.7 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 4.7 section. Key Description Notes 12340 Allow ALG (Application Level Gateway) support in NSX DFW (Distributed Firewall) 12316 Enable hot reconfigure of remote access for captured VMs Customer ticket: 6139, 6051, 6164, 6181 12299 vCloud - storage reconfigure for hard disks 11856 Networker plugin. Introduce more functionality. See Abiquo Backup Plugins and Configure Dell EMC Networker backup plugin 11719 Tracer refactor and improvements to event management. See Improvements to event management and VM Events 11211 Budget control (Phase I) 11204 Implement Storage in public cloud. Includes Amazon persistent storage. 11203 Bill dashboard details for all providers and split by services 10258 Hide external and public network tabs in VDC if no privileges. Also require privileges to attach NICs in these networks to VMs 9276 Azure persistent storage 8868 Remote access to VMs in vCenter using web console (WebMKS) 8206 Source IP restriction per user Key Description Notes Bypass restriction on multiple VMs using the same disk. Ignore additional VMs using the same disk during capture. After deleting or releasing the first VM, to assign a disk to another VM, you must force the VM to synchronize with the hypervisor 12759 AWS: improve deploy error if AMI doesn't exist 12687 Add a cost code for Captured VMs 12658 Modify VCD price properties to allow prices for key node and tenant, as well as reseller 12657 Improve Default VDC role management 12651 Add max VMs per day report to abiquo-usage script 12621 Infrastructure graph labels incorrect - Servers states should be Online/Offline 12076 With action plans to add/remove resources (RAM/CPU) if they fail, information is not clear 10597 Deleting a VM with NAT rules does not create a NAT_DELETE event in Metering 12512 Add missing test to api-java-client 12375 Availability Zone Interface in Abiquo 12315 Improve Backup Results Management Key Description 12760 All tables in Abiquo schemas must have InnoDB engine and UTF8 charset 12726 VDC name change must be applied in accounting 12725 Infrastructure network tabs display has data update problem 12723 User interface - infrastructure network list heading wrong 12711 vCenter tag tool could reach ''com.vmware.vapi.endpoint.highRequestRate''. If the service is unavailable, retry and back off. 12705 Virtual datacenter CREATE + DELETE events are missing 12703 Instance has to copy recommended HPs from original template 12679 User interface - Missing labels in Spanish language 12642 DB accepts negative values for prices 12628 Accounting - changing name of a deployed VApp does not change it in "vapp_name" table (need to change state of VM) 12615 The "accounting_event_ds_storage" table does not include info from captured VMs unless a change of state is performed 12614 The idResource column has different varchar lengths depending on the table and can cause inconsistencies 12533 Abiquo assigns private reserved IP addresses to a VM when deploying it 12459 Add variable for Price of backups in pricing estimate 12270 Optimization tab takes a long time to show the data and the MySQL process is full 12190 vCloud - Undeploy action fails when using cloud-init with multiple orgVdcs 11693 Add event / log for backup policies properties changes 11678 Error with User privileges when editing an enterprise 11642 Monitoring Graphs with incorrect axis labels Customer ticket: 5829 11393 User Interface - Sync process does NOT block the UI automatically 10052 Misleading Enabled/Physical machine columns in the Datastore Tiers view. Should display all machines that share a datastorePlatform changes
New features
12315 Improve backup results management Improvements
12798 4.6.7 12738 Use cost code to match hardware profile when enabling HP mode and during VM synchronization with the hypervisor 4.6.6 12728 Implement OAuth authentication in the event streaming client (Outbound API) Resolved Issues
Notes Customer ticket: 6153.
Version 4.6.6Customer ticket: 6034 Customer ticket: 5828 Customer ticket: 5188 Required update
4.7.1
The following feature guides describe Abiquo 4.7.1 features and improvements: 12991 Handle VM remote access when certificate is not secure 12978 vCloud - Implement ''deleteExternalNetwork''. If you have deployed VMs in an external network, you will need to delete it directly in the Edge, then sync the network, and then remove it in Abiquo 12963 Publish Java API Stream Client. Contact Abiquo Support for more details 12959 Filter virtual datacenters by hypervisortype 12933 User interface - Add Network tab for NAT in Infrastructure view in public cloud regions that support NAT (vCloud Director). See Create a NAT network 12915 Azure - GET regions using SDK 12913 Volume creation in Azure. Prevent creation of volumes of less than 1 GB to prevent errors 12898 UI should differentiate Azure power off (deallocated) and power off states 12888 AccountManagement interface for creating accounts in public cloud 12885 Need virtualmachineslight+json at enterprise level 12879 Update reports to use new event model. Please contact Abiquo Support for the file and upgrade procedure 12876 Replicate API NAT resources in publiccloudregion 12874 Update ec2 + ARM billing for new "enterprise_property" table 12862 Change "Manage VDC default roles" privilege name 12859 Create virtualMachineLightDTO 12855 Restore firewall interface (fence vApp) as default configuration. Control with a property 12852 Implement NAT interface in vCloud Director 12844 Azure - GET hardware profiles using SDK 12827 Outbound API m module should return 401 status code for authorization errors 12825 vCloud - Create orgVDC networks as external networks 12822 Add average CPU and RAM as metrics attributes in VM entity for display in UI 5.0 12820 Azure - shutdown/poweroff/poweron using SDK 12819 Azure - GET virtualmachineStates using SDK 12818 Azure - GET virtualmachines using SDK 12809 M module no longer needs a user in Abiquo (remove from database) 12808 Improve performance of UpdateAccounting stored procedure Ticket: 6215 12778 List events resource documentation is not correct 12747 SAML Integration. Note: this includes Changes to UI configuration that affect Open ID 12743 Create Customer AWS Account in API for inclusion in UI 5.0 12742 Create Customer CSP Account in API for inclusion in UI 5.0 12728 Implement OAuth authentication in Java Stream-client 12714 Azure - Remove extra calls to get disks when user requests sync of VMs 12689 Enable reuse of the same ''X-Abiquo-TracerContext'' in multiple requests. It can be sent as a header 12639 Add price per GB at create and update pricing template 12611 Backup pricing per GB. Note an upgrade to the Billing Integration is also required. Please contact Customer Service for more information Ticket: 6399 12588 Amazon - Add Middle East Bahrain region ("me-south-1") 12532 Create quartz CronCheck to enable user to specify task execution time for the API 12452 VSM - Tracers from VSM 12418 AWS EBS volume encryption 12352 Support vCloud API version compatibility > 26 (support vcloud > 9.7 installations), up to API v30 12347 Support new versions of vCloud Director, up to v10 with API v30 12292 Add region name to Amazon provider and use in default region name instead of provider ID 12205 Action Plans CRUD in API Java Client 11912 Review Maven dependencies 11628 Azure - Abiquo should differentiate between Azure Deallocated and Shutdown states. Added VM "deallocated" attribute 10615 Improve concurrency in dnsmasq plugin 10269 Add Credentials dialog, filter the selection list to display fewer options. Only display allowed providers for "multi-providers" such as vCloud 10064 Allow users to create NAT rules that map to IPs that are not private IPs 12998 Amazon - Cannot remove VPC if network interface has been manually created 12990 Error adding public cloud credentials after adding pricing credentials in the same enterprise 12966 Create VDC always requests the creation of an external network as the default VLAN if the plugin supports it. Should only create by default if private networks are not supported 12957 Azure - Azure API returns vCpusPerSocket of some hardware profiles but does not display this in the portal. Ignore for now and open another issue to manage it 12953 Avoid checking/using Datastore if not Writable for DatastoreUUID. Configure with an abiquo.property 12932 Add a physical machine causes unhandled error when platform does not have license 12930 User interface - Pagination on Infrastructure PCR accounts does not work 12927 Create spec version causes error 12886 Scopes - Not possible to view and edit current allowed datacenters of enterprise 12883 Error messages are duplicated in the user interface 12877 Events - Adding license returns data truncation error 12873 Avoid updating Edge private network IP on network edit. See https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/How+to+create+a+custom+private+network+gateway Ticket: 6358 12865 Duplicated VIEW - ACCOUNT_PERIOD_USAGE_VW 12861 Cannot retrieve events with user with the MANAGE_PRIVATEIP_RESERVATION privilege 12847 Azure firewall: do not allow user to edit rules if a Deny rule is present 12845 Azure firewall: it's not possible to add a rule with protocol ALL/ICMP 12842 Azure firewall: error deleting an inbound rule with an IP as the source 12841 Azure firewall: outbound rule should set destination port range 12834 Error synchronizing volumes attached to a different enterprise 12833 Azure - Error returned synchronizing firewalls. Sync fails if an Application Security Group is selected as a security rule source 12823 Fail to sync virtual machines when there is a VM with more than 9 disks 12807 M module no longer needs a user in abiquo (remove abiquo.properties) 12790 Capturing VM and selecting costCode, a new Hardware profile without costCode is generated 12785 Budgets - Error when deleting bill registers 12755 Amazon / Azure - Public IPs should not require credentials for logical remove 12594 Search for invalid Azure template ID triggers unhandled error 12477 Azure ARM - Error adding credentials to all regions. Credentials are valid for all regions except China 12463 Inconsistent state after release VM using firewalls/loadbalancers. Error releasing a VM using a FW New feature guides
Features and improvements
Key Summary Notes Resolved Issues
Key Summary Notes
4.7.2
The following feature guides describe Abiquo 4.7.2 features and improvements: 13105 Add year in currency conversion for billing dashboard widget on the last bills chart. See Configure Abiquo UI 13066 Enable admin to set an external scope for users to be created with external authentication systems such as OpenID 12995 Enable admin to set network address restriction in CIDR format at scope and role level. Requires a new privilege. See Allowed CIDRs for roles and scopes 12973 API - Add search by providerID to VM lists and add into virtual machine information 12880 Review ''datefrom'' and ''dateto'' resolution when listing events 12798 Provide a way to bypass the restriction on multiple VMs using the same disk. When capturing a VM, ignore the shared disk in the second VM and import it. 13106 Appliance library - Not able to import template from remote repository, "401-Unauthorized: Access is denied" error 13093 Error deleting public IP in private cloud 13092 The MANAGE_PUBLICIPS privilege is mandatory in order to delete private IPs 13087 Fix cron command for azure-daily-billing 13086 Amazon + Azure Billing - Consolidated bills with dates in the year 2020 are not displayed 13077 USER-7: Can't switch enterprise in OpenID 13039 Spelling mistakes in tracers 13018 The check of the remote service of a DC or PCR gives a false positive when remote services are stopped 12993 Error when creating LBs without an algorithm in NSX and vCloud 12870 Error when logically deleting an AWS VDC with existing firewalls. New feature guides
Features and improvements
Key Summary Notes 12981 Recommended datastore tiers for virtual machine templates 13126 AWS Multi-MPA - Billing dashboard. Uses enterprise property 'amazon_mpa' with values of 'shared', 'dedicated', or 'no'. 13067 Implement monitor rollback
Requires an Abiquo Configuration property on the Abiquo API Server12475 Amazon - Error creating VDC when system date is not synchronized 12944 Modify backup price calculation in reports to add new GB price. Customers should update Abiquo reports 12943 Add new backup GB price calculation to billing 12938 Add remove empty VDC and VAPP flag to capture VMs script Resolved Issues
Key Summary Notes 13110 Not able to easily copy content from API examples 13109 API examples with query parameters are missing the initial "?" 13078 API should have offline access to Spring XSD Customer ticket: 6474
(Logically deleting means to delete from the platform but to leave in the provider)
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