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

  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

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 

Google

• 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