Abiquo 4.5 introduces the following features.:
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Resize disks in Action plans
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In Abiquo 4.5, through the Abiquo API you can now retrieve the tenants under a reseller or a key node. For more information about how to create a tenant hierarchy and resellers, see
Greater control of concurrent operations
The platform uses configuration properties to control the number of concurrent operations to: hypervisor, provider, device, backup manager. See the "openSession" properties at Abiquo Configuration Properties#virtualfactory. For a detailed explanation, see Control the number of concurrent operations
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Abiquo 4.5 introduces some useful improvements to the Virtual machines tabs in both the Infrastructure view and the Cloud or Virtual datacenters view. See Administer VMs in infrastructure and Manage Virtual Machines - Display all VMs. Sort and filter VMs by Label and FQDN: it is now even easier to find VMs, because you can sort and filter by the VM friendly name and fully qualified domain name on the Virtual machines tabs. Hypervisor shortcut link: if a VM entity contains a machine link, users with infrastructure privileges can click through from the Hypervisor column to the server where the VM is deployed.
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Abiquo 4.5 enables you to configure a scheduled maintenance window. When you activate the window, the platform will display a status popup for users when they log in. The platform will also display a maintenance link at the bottom of the screen. To open the maintenance popup, the user can click on the link. Maintenance can have a status of: scheduled, in progress, or finished that the platform determines from the dates you enter in the Configuration view on the Dashboard tab. See Configure maintenance notices
Add default template icons by operating system types
Administrators can now configure the UI with the default icons to display for the operating systems used by VM templates. You can simply enter the OS type name and the link to the icon in the user interface configuration file. We have loaded some default files in the Abiquo default theme. See Configure default VM template icons by operating system and Configure Abiquo UI.
Cookie message and privacy policy
In Abiquo 4.5 you can add a Cookie message and configure the link to your privacy policy. Abiquo only uses cookies to improve the user experience, for example, to record that the user is logged in or to record that the user does not wish to display a popup again. See Configure a cookie message and privacy policy.
Save license costs with VMware DRS rules
Customers may have DRS rules to ensure that certain operating systems run on defined hosts, in order to save on licence costs. Administrators create a cluster VM group and Abiquo adds the VMs to the appropriate group during deploy. Abiquo selects the group based on the group naming convention and the operating system set in the VM template. Note that this feature is for use at deploy time and the platform won't add captured VMs to a group and it won't check the group during the reconfigure process. The administrator can enable this feature by setting the properties for the required operating system types. For configuration details, see DRS rules for license affinity.
Support for new public cloud regions
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In private cloud, dynamic hardware profiles support different values of CPU and/or RAM, so they enable administrators to create fewer hardware profiles. Administrators can now set prices for hardware profiles at the platform level (instead of at the cloud location level) by assigning cost codes to hardware profiles. Dynamic hardware profiles have one or more dynamic attributes (CPU and/or RAM). Users can set values of CPU and/or RAM when they create or edit VMs with dynamic hardware profiles. See Hardware See Hardware profiles and Pricing and Pricing view.
Require a datastore tier for VM template disks
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Azure has a very large number of templates and template publishers, which means it may take a considerable amount of time to perform template operations, such as listing templates or taking snapshots. To improve performance, when importing templates from Microsoft Azure, Abiquo administrators can now filter by publishers. The system administrator can load the predefined publishers using Abiquo configuration properties. See Import public cloud templatesAdd VM templates to the catalogue.