These are the release notes for Abiquo v2.3.x. For the release notes of the current version, see Release notes
2.3.0
Improvements
Abiquo 2.3 contains the following new features and improvements.
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| 4076 | Network Service Type: tag multiple virtual switches/dVSwitches/NICs on your hypervisors for different public and external VLAN networks |
4485 | VMware ESX 5.1 compatibility |
| 4485 | VMotion support between different versions of ESX |
Click on the new feature name in the table to see the documentation. In general, guides to new features can be found under the New Features page for each version of Abiquo. New or substantially modified documentation is labelled with the release number e.g. v23. Search for the label in the wiki search box to bring up a list of documentation.
Workflow changes
- Managing Physical Machines : The screen to Create a Physical Machine has changed with new tabs and the new Network Service Type feature.
Resolved issues
| Key | Summary |
|---|---|
| 3005 | Incorrect message when trying to delete a DHCP Remote Service |
| 4018 | Cannot download an image again after it was removed from the NFS outside of Abiquo |
| 4216 | Cannot put an external/unmanaged IP into quarantine |
| 4287 | If a DVD is drive is added via the hypervisor, this is not reflected in the VM when the machine is captured. |
| 4293 | The event generated when a conversion fails does not have the name of the template and template formats in the right places |
| 4360 | License added and license removed events are not recorded |
| 4379 | VSM sends a DESTROY of an existing virtual machine when ESX is overloaded |
| 4380 | When attaching a volume to a VM, if there is a reconfigure error, then refreshing the state of the machine fails |
| 4397 | Flash player crashes when deleting a failed persistent template without selecting the VDC |
| 4401 | API 500 internal server error creating a storage pool with an invalid format in a link of the XML |
| 4405 | Javax error sending an email to owners of physical machine when virtual machines have been retrieved |
| 4410 | The conversions of an instance are not deleted when removing the instance |
| 4411 | When creating an instance, a conversion to Raw remains on the NFS |
| 4413 | Server response error when creating an enterprise and editing a datacenter before saving the enterprise |
| 4417 | VMs that are powered off or paused are not counted in dashboard statistics |
4418 | A user without Infrastructure privileges should not be able to see enterprise hard limits on the dashboard |
| 4420 | Server error is shown getting the external VLANs from an enterprise without a datacenter associated |
| 4423 | Wrong error is shown when putting an external IP into quarantine |
| 4428 | All limits are being checked unnecessarily when creating volumes, private networks and purchasing IPs |
| 4444 | Modified storage volumes lose storage tier in accounting tables |
| 4458 | An Enterprise-admin cannot generate the missing conversions |
| 4459 | A persistent image cannot be moved from KVM to ESX |
| 4460 | When attaching a volume to a VM, the NICs are reordered numerically |
| 4464 | On a Cloud in a Box, cannot create an instance from a persistent virtual machine template |
| 4466 | Power On/Off, Pause and Reset do not work from the Infrastructure screen |
| 4468 | Get through API virtualmachinetemplates for an entrerprise whithout permissions on this template |
| 4484 | A javax error appears when accessing the Chef tab of a VM without a connection to the Chef server |
| 4486 | Public IPs should have the "publicnetwork" link relative to the virtual datacenter |
| 4489 | Cannot deploy more than one VM at a time in Xenserver |
| 4490 | If a hard limit and soft limit are reached at the same time, the displayed popup is wrong |
| 4491 | Synchronizing remote VMs with Abiquo VMs does not work with VMs created from conversions |
| 4492 | When creating clone templates of a persistent using different tiers, all of them are created in the same tier |
| 4493 | When modifying a persistent virtual machine template and editing a template, the wrong trace is generated |
| 4495 | When an "external storage" hard limit is reached by increasing the size of a volume, the wrong popup is shown |
| 4496 | Disabling DVD on a virtual machine does not remove the entry from the DB |
| 4497 | Cannot delete a VM in KVM if its disk does not exist on the datastore |
| 4500 | Blank server response error when saving a new enterprise |
| 4501 | With a concurrent deploy in KVM, sometimes one VM is not deployed |
| 4507 | Warning messages have a corner cross that has not been included in branding |
| 4508 | Abiquo fails to deploy when there are vCenter Folders |
| 4527 | Volumes attached to a VM disappear from the list |
| 4552 | Error accessing vApp caused by a network interface that is not properly assigned |
| 4578 | In the private network details, the interface is not associated with the default NST |
| 4586 | There are no events related to network service types |
| 4587 | Problem doing Vmotion when there are different NSTs for dvSwitches |
| 4598 | Error server response when enterprise admin is uploading a new template from local file into Apps Library |
| 4602 | Update wiki links to 2.3 wiki pages |
| 4604 | Upgrading from 2.0 to 2.2 the unmapped NetApp volumes cannot be used until they are mapped manually or using the mapping tool |
| 4612 | When modifying a network interface, if the interface is already in use, the message given should be improved |
| 4614 | Persistent instance fails due to InitiatorMapping errors |
| 4642 | Public VLANs created in Abiquo 1.8 cause errors in VM networks |
| 4644 | In some circumstances ESX changes the disk name or reference, this causes a problem generating an instance |
| 4663 | Allocator is not able to allocate multiple VMs when reaching the PM limits |
| 4679 | Wrong default remote repository shown |
2.3.1
Resolved issues
Key | Summary |
|---|---|
4869 | In Home view, the 'green bars' graphing available allocated resources are not showing |
| 4937 | For a live migrated persistent VM, VSM is updated but not hypervisor in database, and retrieve operation does not show this VM |
| 4955 | Volumes from others VDCs can be seen by users with restricted access to one VDC |
| 4963 | A user with VDC restrictions can retrieve all the existing persistent VMs from his enterprise through the API |
| 4999 | UCS Blade Configuration tab does not appear in the GUI, meaning that UCS blades cannot be configured |
2.3.2
Resolved issues
Key | Summary |
|---|---|
| 4782 | Only 25 virtual machines can be seen in the virtual appliance view |
5022 | If more than 100 GB external storage is used and no allocation limit is set for storage, Enterprise and VDC statistics do not show statistics/value for used storage |
| 5046 | Public IP limits viewing an enterprise differ from the limits when impersonating that enterprise |
| 5076 | VDC Public IP limits do not change when the user changes to a different enterprise |
| 5088 | Users from a specific Enterprise do not see Public IP allocation limit in Home view for enterprise |
| 5128 | VirtualApp Enterprise Statistics doesn't show attached volumes |
2.3.3
Resolved Bugs
Key | Summary |
|---|---|
| 5144 | Refresh datastores button is using the hypervisor Service IP for remote access instead of the Management IP |
5273 | API allows users to create private networks outside of the ranges of VLAN tags configured on the racks |