This page describes major administration changes between Abiquo versions.

2.4

Accounting

accounting_event_resource tables are now the definitive source of accounting data and log of customer activity.

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When you upgraded to Abiquo 2.4, if you were using default values, they were updated to 3 years. However, non-default values were not updated.

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3.0

Accounting

Resize accounting tables to resize VLAN name to 255 chars from 40 chars

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JDK has been updated from Java 7 to Java 8. This requires updating the JCE libraries for encryption to work as expected.

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3.4

Accounting

Abiquo does not account disk conversions of VM templates or persistent VM templates.

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3.6

HyperV

Support for Hyper-V CSV volumes. Abiquo will detect movements between HVs in a Failover Cluster. It will discover VMs on CSV volumes also.

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Monitoring stack has been improved:

• abiquo-emmett and  and abiquo-delorean are  are required in the Monitoring appliance.
• Monitoring requires a new Monitoring DB to keep track of alerts and metrics.
• Configuration changes are required for monitoring to keep working as expected.
• abiquo.kairosdb.host and  and abiquo.kairosdb.port has  has been deprecated.

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3.8

Accounting

Add new functionality for consumption of tiered datastore storage:

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• VirtualMachine-vcpuon

• VirtualMachine-vcpuoff

• VirtualMachine-vramon

• VirtualMachine-vramoff

• Firewall

• LoadBalancer

• VirtualMachine-backup

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Remote access

Periodic token refresh is not required and Remote access will be available with no delay, and websockify will use a different plugin for remote access authentication.

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• cpu_on_usage
• cpu_off_usage
• memory_on_usage
• memory_off_usage
• firewall_usage
• loadbalancer_usage
• local_tier_storage_usage with tier name as as local_tier_storage_X

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3.10.1

ESXi

Support for guest customizations to set a unique hostname of less than 13 characters from the Abiquo virtual machine API ID, e.g. ABQ0000000002

API support for host metrics retrieval: see see MachineResource

API support for VM relocation: see see VirtualMachineResource

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4.0

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The update process will create and configure new new tomcat and  and websockify users  users for the corresponding services. Change the ownership of relevant files manually as part of the upgrade.

Redis delta scripts location has changed from from /usr/share/doc/abiquo-server/redis and and /usr/share/doc/abiquo-remote-services/redis to  to /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis

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There are changes to branding in Abiquo 4.0. See See Abiquo Branding Guide for  for details of how to upgrade branding.

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abiquo.dvs.vcenter.password and  and abiquo.dvs.vcenter.user properties  properties are deprecated. Remove these properties from all Remote Services appliances.

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Abiquo M is now clusterizable. All M instances require the configuration of an unique value for the the abiquo.m.instanceid property property.

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4.0.4

DB changes

VMs VNC passwords are encrypted in the DB. You must run a tool to encrypt this entries after the DB upgrade process.

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Billing version 4.0.1 for Abiquo 4.x. Property to set set "bill_day_of_month" to define the periods of billing aggregation on a monthly level. See See Abiquo Billing Integration User Guide

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Introduction of new blueprint for NSX to support NAT in virtual datacenters.

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4.2.2

Improvements to NSX-NAT

Improvements to new blueprint for NSX to support NAT in virtual datacenters. See Configure the NSX integration, Manage NAT, and Manage NAT for virtual datacenters.

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4.2.3

vCloud Director

Changes to mapping between objects in Abiquo and vCloud Director. See VMware vCloud Director for  for details of the structure. For configuration see vCloud Director. 

Hyper-V

Support for SMB2 has been added. Users can now disable SMB1. 

Discovery of unmapped Samba shares to be used as datastores. See /wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311375298 for configuration details.Remove the configuration of abiquo.virtualfactory.openSession property to use system default value because the platform now supports multiple connections 

Billing  widgets widgets on Hybrid dashboard tab

Obtain provider billing data and display it on the Hybrid tab of the Home view dashboard, with associated privileges.  

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4.4

Hyper-V

Compatibility with SMB2. Remove requirement to enable SMB1 as part of Hyper-V install.
Remove constraint on multiple concurrent connections.

VMware

To enable the platform to deploy directly to VMware clusters, you can now add VMware clusters as physical machines instead of adding ESXi hosts directly. Migration is required.

Virtual datacenter names in public cloud

The platform can now identify virtual datacenters in public cloud using the VDC name in the VPC name in AWS, subnet name in Azure, vApp name in VCD, Edge field in NSX, and so on.

Dnsmasq

Added support for Dnsmasq, which can replace the current DHCP servers that use the OMAPI protocol. Migration via tool is required.