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.

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Veeam 9.5

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0.3

• vCenter cluster migration tool should ignore protected VMs

• Azure Allow Azure credentials without App ID to enable Azure billing only. Add credentials of reseller customers for billing only. Add credentials of reseller customers for billing only

5.0.4

No significant changes to the platform

5.1

Veeam 9.5

• The Veeam 9.5 plugin is deprecated
• Upgrade to new Veeam 9.5u4 plugin. Requirements:
  • Separate licence
  • Changes to properties
  • New backup manager
  • New Veeam backup jobs corresponding to retention policies
  • Add job names to backup policy codes

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• The user can now define address spaces for virtual datacenters with custom private networks and manage address spaces

Pricing

• New fee per VM

5.1.1

General

• Enable WebMKS by disabling remote access (VNC) when you reconfigure the VM

  • Do not make changes to the VNC configuration, such as the password because this will trigger an error
  • See /wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377649 and Enable WebMKS for vCenter

Private cloud ISO and disks 

• Added Support for SATA disks

Backup

• Added Veeam hypervisor property to list hypervisors to use with Veeam in Abiquo. This prevents issues with Veeam backup results for duplicate VMs on other hypervisors that are not managed by Abiquo.  

• Added Veeam 10 and Veeam 10 Snapshot plugins

• See Veeam 10 backup integration