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4.0
Base 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
4.0.1
Azure 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
4.0.2
ESXi
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.
4.0.4
DB changes
VMs VNC passwords are encrypted in the DB. You must run a tool to encrypt this entries after the DB upgrade process.
4.2
Monitoring
emmett and delorean services require two additional configuration files for using RabbitMQ with SSL support.
Created SOSreport plugin for Monitoring profile.
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noVNC has been replaced by Apache Guacamole.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
4.2.1
NSX-NAT
Introduction of new blueprint for NSX to support NAT in virtual datacenters.
4.2.2
Improvements 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.
4.2.3
vCloud 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.
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
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.
4.4
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.
4.5
Base 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
Hot reconfigure of VMs
Default VMXNET3 ethernet driver
Instance template automatically assigned to imported VM
Import templates with private/public checkbox
Load balancers and classic firewalls at Edge level
Better network and IP management
vCenter
Create DRS rules to group VMs by OS type for license affinity
UI features
Cookie message and privacy policy
Maintenance window notices
4.6
Changes 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
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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
Upgraded to KairosDB 1.2.2
Changes to KairosDB and Cassandra properties
Azure
The Azure Access key ID will now be encrypted. Admin must remove Azure credentials and add them again as part of the upgrade process
Accounting
New index added to database table
User interface
Remove auto-create of virtual appliance when creating virtual datacenter. Now a user must create a virtual appliance in order to create a VM
New infrastructure privileges to display private and public cloud separately
Creating Amazon VDC no longer retrieves its default firewall. User must manually synchronize firewalls
OpenID
Change to tokens in OpenID authentication
vCloud
For private networks that were incorrectly synchronized due to an issue, the user must import these networks again to fix the issue
4.6.1
NSX-ECMP plugin
Support for more than one VDC per tenant using context properties
Azure
Increased default polling intervals to reduce API rate limit concerns. Configure in abiquo.properties
Use new CSP credentials with token (affects price list and billing dashboard)
vCenter hosts and clusters
Detect host IPs as specified, in networks, and designated for management traffic. Configure in abiquo.properties
For clusters, assign management traffic IPs for remote access
Added support for more guest operating systems
vCloud
Support for cores per socket
Improved support for multiple disks
Virtual networks
Reserve private IPs for assignment outside of the platform
Default firewall policy for a VDC
Dashboard
Changes to dashboard styling, see Changes to branding
Also some changes to dashboard content
4.6.3
Veeam
New plugin to support Veeam 9.5 update 4. Requires new licenses. Delete the old backup manager and create a new one, selecting the new plugin.
Dropped support for Veeam 8.0
4.6.4
Billing dashboard
Changes to enterprise property names. To display billing dashboard data, you must use the new property names.
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
The Storage Manager (SSM) remote service has been removed and the NARS remote service will now manage storage for the platform
The platform logs this remote service in the nars log. As part of the upgrade process, administrators can remove the old remote service web app: ssm.
Administrators can update existing public cloud templates to enable hot reconfigure of disks
Remote access to vCenter
Optional remote access to vCenter VMs using web console (WebMKS) that is activated (and can be forced) with abiquo.properties, and using the same branding as vCloud WMKS
Storage hot-reconfigure can now be enabled during the capture of VMs that are powered ON
Events
The Abiquo database upgrade may take longer than usual because it will upgrade the events table to the new format
Capture
You can now set a cost code for a VM during capture
vCloud hard disks
Administrators can update existing templates to enable disk hot reconfigure
Application level gateway in NSX distributed firewalls
Configure with Abiquo Configuration Properties and UI client config properties
Reporting
You must upgrade Abiquo Reporting to use the new events format. For more information, please contact Customer Service
Backup
The Avamar backup plugin is deprecated in Abiquo 4.7.0
4.7.1
Upgrade requires credentials
Abiquo YUM repositories are no longer open. Please contact Abiquo Support to obtain your credentials
Changes to the outbound API for event streaming
Remove the M user from the database and the m user properties (DO NOT REMOVE abiquo.m.instanceid) from Abiquo Configuration Properties. Remove the OUTBOUND_API role
Changes to vCloud Director plugin
The default platform configuration is now to create fenced vApps in vCloud Director. To change this configuration, set the abiquo.vcd.fenceVapp property to false
Added support to manage NAT networks and org VDC networks as external networks
Added support for vCloud Director 9.7, vCloud Director 10, and API up to version 33 of the API
SAML integration
Added integration with SAML 2.0
Associated changes to UI configuration that also affect OpenID integration
New optional cookies to save login methods for OpenID and SAML
Reporting
You must upgrade Abiquo Reporting to use the new events format. For the file and procedure, please contact Abiquo Support
API Java client
Java client now supports the streaming API, see Abiquo Java Stream Client
4.7.2
Changes to vCenter and ESXi
Provide a way to bypass the restriction on multiple VMs using the same disk. When capturing a VM, ignore the shared disk in the second VM and import the VM. Requires an Abiquo Configuration property on the Abiquo API Server
New version of Abiquo reports
Includes price of backup per GB
SSO integrations
External scopes
Allowed connections
Allowed CIDRs for roles and scopes
Recommended datastore tiers
Administrators can now recommend datastore tiers for templates
4.7.3
No significant changes to the platform
5.x
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5.0.0
New user interface
Branding information see Abiquo Branding Guide
Changes to Pricing view. In Abiquo 5.0.0, to assign a pricing model, the user must be able to edit enterprises
Improvement of install process
We are currently improving the Abiquo install process and OVA packages are not available for Abiquo 5.0. Please contact Abiquo Support for more information
vCloud tagging of organization and provider VDCs
Abiquo can now associate Org VDCs with their Provider VDCs when adding Org credentials
Resellers
You can now configure a mail account in each reseller enterprise
You can now create public cloud accounts from within the platform
vCloud Director changes
vCloud firewalls at Edge level
Reset guest password (guest tools)
NSX NAT changes
Limit bandwidth of NAT IPs with QoS at virtual datacenter level
Action plans
Send webhook action. Note that administrators should monitor the use of this feature.
Azure
Support for Availability sets
5.0.1
Veeam
For Veeam v9.5u4, you must add a Code to each backup policy to match the name of a cloned dummy backup job in Veeam. This enables you to set different backup retention times in different jobs. See Configure Abiquo Veeam backup plugin#Configureallbackupjobswithpolicycodes
Azure
Users can accept marketplace terms in the Apps library when importing templates or when deploying VMs. This action requires a new privilege
5.0.2
No significant changes to the platform
5.0.3
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
5.0.5
New Veeam hypervisor property to specify a list of vCenters used in Abiquo. See Configure Abiquo Veeam backup plugin for more details.
5.1
Veeam 9.5
The Veeam 9.5 plugin is deprecated
Upgrade to new Veeam 9.5u4 plugin. Requirements:
Separate license
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
VMware snapshot
There is a new plugin to offer VMware Snapshot functionality
VM and template variables
A user cannot add empty variables to VMs or VM templates
Users can modify VM variables before deploy only
Hardware profiles and families
The platform now onboards hardware profile families and types from public cloud and manages hardware profiles families and types
Shortcut to create a VM
Users can now create a VM from any screen using the +VM button
Users can now create a VM from a template in the Apps library
VMware
Limit public IP bandwidth with QoS in vCenter and vCenter clusters
Virtual datacenters
There is a new Locations section in virtual datacenters to manage resources at public cloud region and datacenter level
Users can now filter virtual datacenters by provider
Address ranges in Amazon and Azure
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 Install WebMKS proxy 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
5.1.2
ESXi
vSphere
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 volumes
Optionally capture VMs with duplicate names in different datacenters
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 no longer required on the V2V server
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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
5.2.1
For a full list of changes, please check the Release Notes.
SAML
Added multiple identity providers based on user email domain
You MUST add the new property to define the default IdP, even if you are only using one IdP
Added VM monitoring
Added bootstrap scripts with cloud-init
Reporting
Added SSO to Reports
DRaaS
Added billing
vCenter hosts and clusters
Deploy OVA ready templates
Ignore datastores by name
Eject CD-ROM
Cloud-init
Inject enterprise properties as VM variables
Networker
vCenter credentials are now mandatory for Networker
API
There are no changes to the API in Abiquo 5.2.1
5.3.0
Virtual machines
VMs in the provider are now identified by their Provider ID
Duplicate VM names can exist in the platform
Duplicate VM friendly names cannot exist in vCenter
Public cloud billing
The public cloud billing modules have been moved to the core platform
Home view
Added dynamic dashboards
Added new dashboard widgets
Infrastructure view
Added support for disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
The list of VMs on a hypervisor is now paginated
Apps library
Added support for UEFI boot
Virtual datacenters
Added support for AWS Application load balancers
Users can create public subnets in AWS
5.3.1
Added Abstract datastore tiers to group storage service levels in private cloud
5.4.0
Added Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Added NSX-T
Added Abstract datastore tiers to group public storage service levels
Added support for firewalls in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
New guest setup options for AWS in the API
Onboard accounts in non-default AWS regions
Changes to scopes in tenant hierarchies, including new API methods
Edit disk size and tier in VM templates and VMs
5.4.1
Added Rubrik backup plugin, see Abiquo and Rubrik backup
Update the MAC addresses of private IPs for vCenter
OCI - Add Free-form tags and Flex shapes as dynamic hardware profiles
vCenter - Add Use Guest setup to inject IP addresses without DHCP
Added ticketing interface for custom
Added support for NSX-T public networks. See Abiquo and NSX-T
Allow users to delete custom templates (private templates) from public cloud providers.
See Delete private templates in public cloud
6.x
6.0.0
Billing - AWS - new required enterprise property for resellers and standard accounts: amazon_bucket_region.
The value is the code for the AWS region where the billing bucket is located (for example, us-east-1)SAML - new required property for maximum authentication age. If you do not add this property, SAML will not start
Bootstrap scripts at VM template level
Refresh button added to all UI screens
New VMware VM snapshot feature replaces deprecated Snapshot backup
Improvements to VM metrics and monitoring
Finops: Add AWS and Azure credentials only for billing
New remote service for XaaS (required if you are using XaaS)
Tags in VCD (VMware Cloud Director) provider that materialize on VM, vApp, VM template
Google Cloud Platform: added load balancers, tags (labels), default networks
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: added load balancers, Abiquo instance template, onboard Defined tags
Abiquo multicloud tag policies
Automate actions on dynamic groups of resources by tags in action plans
Improvements to tag search and filters
6.0.1
Added support for multiple cost codes and VM cost codes
Added support for DHCP without NAT in NSX-T
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) added support for custom hardware profiles
Administrator must create external IPs in infrastructure, and users cannot automatically generate an external IP in VM edit.
See Changes to external IP management in Abiquo 6.0.x
6.0.2
Added public cloud billing check tool
6.0.3
Changes to cost codes to rename the feature in the UI and changes to cost code privileges
Changes to LDAP to support user management with basic auth in multi mode with changes to properties
New Billing backup results tool to include backup results in cloud billing
New option to improve capture performance by skipping the ISO disk size request
6.0.4
Renamed the abiquo.nsxt.infra.tier0-external-ip property to abiquo.nsxt.infra.tier0.allowed-gateways
6.0.6
Additional changes to the NSX-T integration. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311365116/Configure+the+Abiquo+NSX-T+integration#Changes-to-the-NSX-T-integration
6.1.x
6.1.0
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
Changes to VMs in UI and API. See https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/changelog/6.1.0_to_6.1.2.html
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
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Added new dashboard widget to display the billing info by resource report. Tenant cost report widget
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Add Managed price factor for AWS as a percentage of costs. See Manage price factors
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6.x
6.0.0
Billing - AWS - new required enterprise property for resellers and standard accounts: amazon_bucket_region.
The value is the code for the AWS region where the billing bucket is located (for example, us-east-1)SAML - new required property for maximum authentication age. If you do not add this property, SAML will not start
Bootstrap scripts at VM template level
Refresh button added to all UI screens
New VMware VM snapshot feature replaces deprecated Snapshot backup
Improvements to VM metrics and monitoring
Finops: Add AWS and Azure credentials only for billing
New remote service for XaaS (required if you are using XaaS)
Tags in VCD (VMware Cloud Director) provider that materialize on VM, vApp, VM template
Google Cloud Platform: added load balancers, tags (labels), default networks
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: added load balancers, Abiquo instance template, onboard Defined tags
Abiquo multicloud tag policies
Automate actions on dynamic groups of resources by tags in action plans
Improvements to tag search and filters
6.0.1
Added support for multiple cost codes and VM cost codes
Added support for DHCP without NAT in NSX-T
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) added support for custom hardware profiles
Administrator must create external IPs in infrastructure, and users cannot automatically generate an external IP in VM edit.
See Changes to external IP management in Abiquo 6.0.x
6.0.2
Added public cloud billing check tool
6.0.3
Changes to cost codes to rename the feature in the UI and changes to cost code privileges
Changes to LDAP to support user management with basic auth in multi mode with changes to properties
New Billing backup results tool to include backup results in cloud billing
New option to improve capture performance by skipping the ISO disk size request
6.0.4
Renamed the abiquo.nsxt.infra.tier0-external-ip property to abiquo.nsxt.infra.tier0.allowed-gateways
6.0.6
Additional changes to the NSX-T integration. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311365116/Configure+the+Abiquo+NSX-T+integration#Changes-to-the-NSX-T-integration
6.1.x
6.1.0
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
Changes to VMs in UI and API. See https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/changelog/6.1.0_to_6.1.2.html
Allow
None
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
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5.0.0New user interface
Improvement of install process
vCloud tagging of organization and provider VDCs
Resellers
vCloud Director changes
NSX NAT changes
Action plans
Azure
5.0.1Veeam
Azure
5.0.2No significant changes to the platform 5.0.3
5.0.4No significant changes to the platform 5.0.5New Veeam hypervisor property to specify a list of vCenters used in Abiquo. See Configure Abiquo Veeam backup plugin for more details. 5.1Veeam 9.5
Veeam-Snapshot
VMware snapshot
VM and template variables
Hardware profiles and families
Shortcut to create a VM
VMware
Virtual datacenters
Address ranges in Amazon and Azure
Pricing
5.1.1General
Private cloud ISO and disks
Backup
5.1.2ESXi
5.2.0Infrastructure
ESXi and vCenter
DRaaS
VM disks and template disks
Cloud provider pricing and billing dashboard
Google Cloud Platform
Azure
AWS
User interface
5.2.1For a full list of changes, please check the Release Notes. SAML
Reporting
DRaaS
vCenter hosts and clusters
Cloud-init
Networker
API
5.3.0Virtual machines
Public cloud billing
Home view
Infrastructure view
Apps library
Virtual datacenters
5.3.1
5.4.0
5.4.1
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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 Consolidated discovery manager remote service 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
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