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.
Concurrency control
New openSession properties per provider, and to optionally apply the openSession limits per virtual datacenter. Additional properties to concurrently allow fast state changes.
Watchtower database migration of action plans
Run a migration tool to upgrade action plans created prior to Abiquo 4.4.0.
New REST API documentation
See https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest
vCloud Director
- Hot reconfigure of VMs
- Default VMXNET3 ethernet driver
- Instance template automatically assigned to imported VM
- Import templates with private/public checkbox
- Load balancers and classic firewalls at Edge level
- Better network and IP management
vCenter
Create DRS rules to group VMs by OS type for license affinity
UI features
- Cookie message and privacy policy
- Maintenance window notices