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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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  • Changes to enterprise property names. To display billing dashboard data, you must use the new property names.


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4.7.0

Public cloud storage and private cloud external storage

  • The Storage Manager (SSM) remote service has been removed and the NARS remote service will now manage storage for the platform
  • The platform logs this remote service in the nars log. As part of the upgrade process, administrators can remove the old remote service web app: ssm.
  • Administrators can update existing public cloud templates to enable hot reconfigure of disks

Remote access to vCenter

  • Optional remote access to vCenter VMs using web console (WebMKS) that is activated (and can be forced) with abiquo.properties, and using the same branding as vCloud WMKS
  • Storage hot-reconfigure can now be enabled during the capture of VMs that are powered ON

Events

  • The Abiquo database upgrade may take longer than usual because it will upgrade the events table to the new format

Capture

  • You can now set a cost code for a VM during capture

vCloud hard disks

  • Administrators can update existing templates to enable disk hot reconfigure

Changes to the Outbound API for event streaming

  • Abiquo 4.7.0 introduces changes to the data structure of the events streamed by the Outbound API (M module)
  • This means you may need to make small changes to any integrations that use the streaming API. See Trace entity for the new format
  • The new version of the M module does not require a user in the database or Abiquo Configuration Properties to configure a user

Application level gateway in NSX distributed firewalls

  • Configure with Abiquo Configuration Properties and UI client config properties