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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

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)
  • You must change 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

Public cloud storage and private cloud external storage

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  • 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

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