This page describes major administration changes between Abiquo versions. Table of ContentsThis 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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• 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

5.1.2

ESXi

• vSphere

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• Supported versions
  • Added Support for vSphere 7.0
    • vSphere 7.x does not support remote access using VNC, so you must configure WebMKS to provide remote access 
  • Discontinued support for vSphere 5.x
• Optionally capture VMs with external volumesConfigure with properties
• Optionally capture VMs with duplicate names in different datacenters
  
  • During upgrade process, run scripts to update the Redis database, Monitoring database, and Veeam backup job names
  • Configure with properties
  • When you add vCenters to Abiquo:
    • For vCenter hosts, all hosts must belong to a cluster
    • Add all the hosts in the same cluster to the same Abiquo datacenter
    • Use hostnames or IP addresses to register vCenter hosts, but do not mix hostnames and IP addresses
• VMware Snapshot backups and Veeam+VMware snapshot backups
  • In the snapshot plugin configuration, the vCenter endpoint must be exactly the same as the Manager IP of the Abiquo physical machine, even including the protocol.
    For example, ''vcenter01.example.com'' will not match ''https://vcenter01.example.com''

Authentication

• Added property to control the SameSite flag of the login cookie (OpenID/SAML/Basic auth)datacenters 

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5.2.0

Infrastructure

• The infrastructure check that periodically synchronizes the hosts with the platform will not create or delete datastores. If there are any changes to your datastores, you may need to refresh them manually. To do this, edit the physical machine and go to Datastores, then click the round arrow refresh button to update datastores.
  

ESXi and vCenter

• Added Support for vSphere 7.0
  • vSphere 7.x does not support remote access using VNC, so you must configure WebMKS to provide remote access. See Enable WebMKS for vCenter
• Discontinued support for vSphere 5.x

DRaaS

• New Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) feature with Zerto integration

VM disks and Template disks

• Remove the "bootable" attribute and try to boot disks in sequence order

Cloud provider pricing and billing dashboard

• This feature is now part of the core Abiquo platform
• Added support for Google Cloud
• Add new configuration
• Remove old configuration in yaml files and scheduled job

Google Cloud Platform

• New Google Cloud integration

Azure

• Added support for 
  • Resource Groups
  • Standard SKU public IPs
  • Standard SKU load balancers
• Improved Azure VPNs
  • Removed some enterprise properties with default in abiquo.properties

AWS

• The template export to public cloud now uses AWS SDK. This file is longer required on the V2V server
  

  Code Block
  /etc/sysconfig/abiquo/ec2-api-tools

  
  

User interface

• The feature to create a VM from anywhere using the floating Add VM button is now enabled by default. See Create and deploy a VM from anywhere