This page describes major administration changes between Abiquo versions.

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Support for SMB2 has been added. Users can now disable SMB1. 
Discovery of unmapped Samba shares to be used as datastores. See Hyper-V for configuration details.
Remove the configuration of abiquo.virtualfactory.openSession property to use system default value because the platform now supports multiple connections 

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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

Support for SMB2 has been added. Users can now disable SMB1. 
Discovery of unmapped Samba shares to be used as datastores. See Hyper-V for configuration details.
Remove the configuration of abiquo.virtualfactory.openSession property to use system default value because the platform now supports multiple 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.

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4.5

Base OS

Abiquo is now based on Centos 7. CentOS 6 packages are not provided. 

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• You must upgrade Abiquo Reporting to use the new events format. For the file and procedure, please contact Abiquo Support

API Java client

• Java client now supports the streaming API, see Abiquo Java Stream Client

4.7.2

Changes to vCenter and ESXi

• 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 the VM. Requires an Abiquo Configuration property on the Abiquo API Server

New version of Abiquo Reports

• Includes price of backup per GB

SSO integrations

• External scopes

Allowed connections

• Allowed CIDRs for roles and scopes

Recommended datastore tiers

• Administrators can now recommend datastore tiers for templates

4.7.3

No significant changes to the platform

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5.0

New user interface

• Branding information will be available soon

vCloud tagging of Organization and Provider VDCs

• Abiquo can now associate Org VDCs with their Provider VDCs when adding Org credentials

Resellers

• You can now configure a mail account in each reseller enterprise
• You can now create public cloud accounts from within the platform

vCloud Director changes

• vCloud firewalls at Edge level
• Reset guest password (guest tools)

NSX NAT changes

• Limit bandwidth of NAT IPs with QoS at virtual datacenter level

Action plans

• Send webhook action

Azure

• Support for Availability sets