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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No significant changes to the platform
5.1
Veeam 9.5
- The Veeam 9.5 plugin is now deprecated in Abiquo 5.1. Please upgrade to deprecated
- Upgrade to new Veeam 9.5u4 . This requires a new backup plugin with its own licenseplugin. Requirements:
- Separate licence
- Changes to properties
- New backup manager
- New Veeam backup jobs corresponding to retention policies
- Add job names to backup policy codes
Veeam-Snapshot
- There is a new plugin to offer VMware Snapshot functionality as a complement to Veeam backup 9.5u4
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