This page describes major administration changes between Abiquo versions.
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4.0Base OS Abiquo is based on Centos 7 instead of CentOS 6 now. CentOS 6 packages will be provided for some time, but we strongly recommend migrating to CentOS 7 as soon as possible. The update process will create and configure new tomcat and websockify users for the corresponding services. Change the ownership of relevant files manually as part of the upgrade. Redis delta scripts location has changed from /usr/share/doc/abiquo-server/redis and /usr/share/doc/abiquo-remote-services/redis to /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis Accounting Added Consolidation-time-sensitivity-secs parameter in accounting to ignore events only active for a short period of time Branding There are changes to branding in Abiquo 4.0. See Abiquo Branding Guide for details of how to upgrade branding. KVM KVM cloud nodes must run CentOS 7 Abiquo AIM agent fully supports Openstack Neutron integration Backup Backup integrations are now part of the Abiquo core product and backup plugins are provided for each backup system. Backup data is no longer stored in VM metadata. A backup archteype will be released to enable customers to create backup plugins 4.0.1Azure ARM You must run an additional upgrade process near the end of the upgrade. Before you begin your upgrade, get in touch with Abiquo Support for more information Vcloud Initial Vcloud support ESXi abiquo.dvs.vcenter.password and abiquo.dvs.vcenter.user properties are deprecated. Remove these properties from all Remote Services appliances. ESXi hypervisors are now configured as vCenter managed hypervisors. After the upgrade, edit each hypervisor to enter its vCenter credentials. Backup Support for Veeam 9.5 4.0.2ESXi VMWare clusters are detected and reported in the UI Cluster load rules are available in the Infrastructure Allocation Rules section RabbitMQ RabbitMQ clustering support has been introduced. RabbitMQ configuration must be recreated and the clients must be reconfigured accordingly. Properties Abiquo M is now clusterizable. All M instances require the configuration of an unique value for the abiquo.m.instanceid property. 4.0.4DB changes VMs VNC passwords are encrypted in the DB. You must run a tool to encrypt this entries after the DB upgrade process. 4.2Monitoring emmett and delorean services require two additional configuration files for using RabbitMQ with SSL support. Remote access noVNC has been replaced by Apache Guacamole. The guacd runs on the Remote Services server. There is a new remote service for remote access, which can be reused in more than one location. Go to Remote services, add the new remote service, and then add it to existing datacenters and public cloud regions. HAProxy and Websockify are no longer used Authentication Cookie based authentication has been replaced by the X-Abiquo-Token header with an authentication token. Some API Request examples are not yet updated Branding Stylesheet for branding the Guacamole client was added Guest password SMS notification You can now add an SMS gateway address and the platform will send users a message with their guest passwords. Billing Billing version 4.0.1 for Abiquo 4.x. Property to set "bill_day_of_month" to define the periods of billing aggregation on a monthly level. See Abiquo billing integration user guide#Configure General Billing Settings 4.2.1NSX-NAT Introduction of new blueprint for NSX to support NAT in virtual datacenters. 4.2.2Improvements to NSX-NAT Improvements to new blueprint for NSX to support NAT in virtual datacenters. See Configure the NSX integration, Manage NAT, and Manage NAT for virtual datacenters. 4.2.3vCloud Director Changes to mapping between objects in Abiquo and vCloud Director. See VMware vCloud Director integration for details of the structure. For configuration see vCloud Director. Hyper-V Support for SMB2 has been added. Users can now disable SMB1. Billing widgets on hybrid dashboard tab Obtain provider billing data and display it on the Hybrid tab of the Home view dashboard, with associated privileges. 4.4Hyper-V Support for SMB2 has been added. Users can now disable SMB1. 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. 4.5Base OS Abiquo is now based on Centos 7. CentOS 6 packages are not provided. Concurrency control New openSession properties per provider, and to optionally apply the openSession limits per virtual datacenter. Additional properties to concurrently allow fast state changes. Watchtower database migration of action plans Run a migration tool to upgrade action plans created prior to Abiquo 4.4.0. New REST API documentation See https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest vCloud Director
vCenter Create DRS rules to group VMs by OS type for license affinity UI features
4.6Changes to UI language files From Abiquo 4.6 onwards, you must have an "__EOF" label at the end of each language file, otherwise the UI will not load correctly and the login form will not display
There is a new version of the Discovery Manager remote service that now performs all resource discovery tasks in private and public cloud. It replaces the previous version of the Discovery Manager and the Cloud Provider Proxy, which the platform will no longer use. The name of the Discovery Manager web application has changed from "nodecollector" to "nars", and the type has also changed to "NARS". The platform's api-java-client now supports asynchronous tasks. The platform logs this remote service in the nars logs, which replaces the nodecollector and cpp logs. As part of the upgrade process, administrators can remove the old remote service webapps: nodecollector and cpp. Monitoring and metrics
Azure
Accounting
User interface
OpenID
vCloud
4.6.1NSX-ECMP plugin
Azure
vCenter hosts and clusters
vCloud
Virtual networks
Dashboard
4.6.3Veeam
4.6.4Billing dashboard
4.7.0Changes to the outbound API for event streaming
Public cloud storage and private cloud external storage
Remote access to vCenter
Events
Capture
vCloud hard disks
Application level gateway in NSX distributed firewalls
Reporting
Backup
4.7.1Upgrade requires credentials
Changes to the outbound API for event streaming
Changes to vCloud Director plugin
SAML integration
Reporting
API Java client
4.7.2Changes to vCenter and ESXi
New version of Abiquo reports
SSO integrations
Allowed connections
Recommended datastore tiers
4.7.3No significant changes to the platform |
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Incorporated on-premise billing into the Abiquo platform. See Abiquo on premise billing and Configure on premise billing
Also including Manage extra charges with cost codes and Manage price factors
Incorporated themes management for branding within the Abiquo UI. See Themes management
Introduced service metrics, which work with DBaaS services (AWS RDS and and the new Microsoft Azure DB for MySQL single server)
6.1.1
Infrastructure
For standard networking in private cloud, add a device to manage port groups. Create an external network in vCenter with the external network in Abiquo, not on deploy of first VM. Let users create a VDC with no network
DRaaS: Update Zerto plugin to work with ZVM 9.7 U2
Virtual resources
On Events widget on the dashboard, give more details and display changes to VM allocation
Billing
Improved one-time extra charges for billing
6.1.2
Infrastructure
Update Guacamole to version 1.5 to support ED25519 SSH keys. See Upgrade Guacamole server
Support vVols for datastores in ESXi
Allow capture of disks with the same UUID on vCenter
Virtual resources
Allow
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as an option for private network during VDC creation in NSX-T and AWS as well as standard private cloud networking (6.1.1)In AWS, allow to select on VDC creation if we create the NAT gateway. See Create virtual datacenters in AWS without NAT
Billing
Added new dashboard widget to display the billing info by resource report. Tenant cost report widget
Add Managed price factor for AWS as a percentage of costs. See Manage price factors
For Azure CSP Billing, allow onboarding of customer as a whole using billing only credentials. See Automatically onboard Azure customers