These are the release notes for Abiquo v3.6.x. For the release notes of the current version, see Release notes
3.6.0
Platform Changes
Platform Component Upgrades. See Configuration Changes in Abiquo 3.6
Abiquo API Changelog
See API Changelog v3.6
New Features
Abiquo 3.6 contains the following new features and improvements.
The pages listed here are new feature guides, which means they explain the new features from the perspective of a user who is already familiar with Abiquo concepts. They are found under the New in Abiquo 3.6 page in Version Info.
The following features are new in Abiquo 3.6
Mobility
Onboard VDC from Public Cloud
Collectd plugin
Metric Dimensions
XenServer Metrics
ISO feature
Graceful Shutdown
OAuth Improvements
User Interface Changes in Abiquo 3.6
Azure Improvements
Hyper-V CSV
The following features are new in Abiquo 3.6.1
Azure Improvements
Upload and replace template disks via API
OVA Upload
The following feature is new in Abiquo 3.6.2
Two Factor Authentication
Improvements
Key | Summary |
---|---|
4601 | Statistics - automatically refresh statistics |
4703 | In virtual appliance view, add more information to tool tip for templates available in the Templates tab |
5631 | Enable users to give auxiliary hard disks a name to make them distinguishable |
7006 | Virtual machine control button to shut down or power off should use consistent terminology |
7275 | Poor feedback after an instance process ends. Now just after the process starts, the virtual appliance will refresh until the instance is completed, then the list of templates will be refreshed and the master symbol will appear on the template icon |
7888 | Enable users to view virtual machine details while deploying in virtual machine panel at the bottom of the screen |
7894 | Add 'provider' filter query param to get allowed locations (public cloud) filtered by the name of the "hypervisor type" of the public cloud provider |
7923 | Save public credentials as part of enterprise (before validating public cloud account) raises enterprise edited successfully message but Save should be disabled until the account is validated |
7976 | Main menu buttons overlap in tiny width browser |
8023 | Go to first page when a filter is applied in the Events view |
8028 | When the user edits Allocation limits and changes the hard limit, then the soft limit should be updated before the form is closed |
8032 | Administrators should be able to edit a global category in the user interface |
8099 | Improve Apps Library Hypervisor / Docker links appearance |
8115 | Branding updated to use CSS |
8136 | When backup restore 'result' field is empty, show the restore as 'In progress' |
8156 | Tenant administrator should be able to edit public cloud credentials for their enterprise |
8157 | Hide hypervisor selection in VDC creation/edit when DC only has one technology |
8160 | Create a "Default vApp" when a virtual datacenter is created. The name is created with the VDC name and a UI label that the customer can customize |
8161 | The ability to re-order the metrics in the monitoring setup is not obvious. The metrics are now styled as a grid, which should help customers to identify the functionality |
8180 | Show default icon when dragging and dropping template with default icon to create VM |
8290 | Provide a way to request master templates or shared instance with master not shared, and not in the same enterprise |
Resolved issues
Key | Summary |
---|---|
5395 | API allows templates without hd_required |
6149 | XenServer cannot re-use the same LUN |
6301 | AM should require api.location property during check |
7135 | In events, plugin specific validation errors are always reported as "GEN-20" - "The requested virtual machine definition cannot be applied by the hypervisor plugin" |
7357 | Explicit error is not shown trying to deploy on ESX connected to vCenter with invalid vCenter credentials |
7359 | No explicit error shown when no connection to vCenter |
7739 | In Users view, the list of enterprises is not sorted alphabetically |
7896 | Buttons to edit and delete persistent templates are enabled without selecting any VDC or template |
8020 | Remote services locations field is not readable when there are many locations. Make the column wider and add a tooltip |
8057 | Chef might not work if Chef Server is version 12 and has SSL verification enabled. Configure the client with the path to the Chef server certificate to use for validation |
8062 | Editing VM template that is in use, no error message is triggered when trying to delete a non-empty secondary disk |
8121 | Enterprise admin cannot add a template disk from a shared virtual machine template to another template. |
8147 | Editing a physical machine, on the IPMI tab, input fields are named 'user' and 'password' so browser autocomplete inserts login credentials in those fields |
8148 | VM panel with UUID and controls does not look good in smallest supported screen size |
8149 | When deleting public or unmanaged network, tooltip and confirmation popup refer to external network |
8162 | On Home page, same label is used for Enterprises list and Enterprise resources panel |
8172 | Wrong Date string in IE 11. The user interface does not operate with dates now |
8191 | Standard user with privilege to assign firewalls and load balancer cannot perform this action |
8195 | In Azure, PowerON after deploy is not notified immediately after the deployment operation. It waits for VMSync, which by default occurs every 15 minutes |
8210 | Duplicated link to VM in Private IP resource |
8218 | In accounting for public cloud VMs, the idDatacenter is not recorded |
8221 | Edit disks of a virtual machine template allows duplicated sequence |
8224 | Virtual appliance 'acknowledge' link is not correct |
8228 | Small issues related to categories edition |
8230 | Incorrect re-subscribe in async operations related to subscriptions that were deleted synchronously from the VSM |
8272 | Failed instance remains in in-progress state |
8301 | Traces not inserted in metering table when message is not found; report JSON representation of the details in this case |
8304 | Reenable DISABLED_BY_HA that has been unlicensed ends up with no subscription of managed server |
8305 | Filter of event list by performed action works as 'like' and should work as 'equals' |
8308 | IDE Controller is fetched from ANY virtual machine present in Hyper-V hypervisor |
3.6.1
Improvements
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
7967 | Enable upload of OVA file to the repository | |
8240 | The create persistent forms have a different style to the rest of the application | |
8334 | Instances of virtual machines with CBT enabled also copy the -ctk.vmdk file | |
8339 | We should allow users to duplicate an empty disk when we duplicate a template | |
8371 | Provide an API endpoint to upload and replace existing VM template disks | |
8381 | Provide a way to disable some metrics at plugin level | 3.2.7 |
8393 | Not all requests to virtual factory require a VirtualMachineDefinition |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
6089 | HA fails moving Hyper-V VMs in ON state with Samba shared datastores | |
7971 | RASD MySQL table contains old entries with no rasd_management relation | 3.8 |
8158 | Wrong label on CPU-Mz metric from ESX | 3.2.5, 3.4.1 |
8196 | Docker agent fails to start and hangs if it can't consolidate a container | |
8198 | Instance on Hyper-V fails when original template is not VHD | |
8246 | UI - Not able to see the options menu properly in the Apps library | |
8278 | Monitoring - after virtual appliance refresh all metrics are selected automatically | |
8279 | Monitoring - bad format displayed when retrieving an empty list of datapoints at virtual appliance level | |
8295 | Details of an exported template are not properly displayed when using the horizontal scroll bar | |
8310 | Extra HD disk name not displayed in VM details | |
8320 | Concurrently process more than one synchronize task on public cloud. New property - abiquo.pcryncpool | |
8321 | When soft limit is reached, no trace is created if hard limit is 0 | |
8322 | Pop up of soft limits is not shown during deploy of virtual appliance, only during deploy of VM | |
8323 | Create instance should copy ALL disks by default, even without opening disks popup | |
8330 | Disable resize of ISO disk | |
8335 | Cannot make a volume bootable | |
8338 | Cannot export an empty disk when exporting a template to another datacenter | |
8345 | Retrieve VMs with disks on Samba shared datastores does not work properly | |
8348 | Duplicated datastores when refreshing physical machine definition after renaming an already configured datastore | 3.2.7, 3.4.2 |
8350 | Instance request should fail if no disk link is provided | |
8351 | Not able to perform a resize of the primary disk in KVM | 3.4.2 |
8354 | Error message displayed when creating an allocation rule | |
8357 | Invalid error message displayed when trying to attach NFS storage volumes to VMs using Hyper-V | |
8359 | When capturing VMs, unable to select private IPs beyond 25 (on external, beyond 300) | 3.4.2 |
8360 | The UI is not showing the empty disk for promote instance or duplicate template operations | |
8362 | Not able to attach a volume once it has been deployed | |
8364 | Error adding hosts to datacenter with special characters in the credentials | |
8372 | Not able to perform an instance of a virtualmachine with an ISO disk. Note: an ISO disk should not be instanced | |
8373 | Virtual machine unsubscribed after instance request fail | 3.2.7, 3.4.3 |
8378 | Error when retrieving metrics from ESX | 3.2.7, 3.4.3 |
8379 | Not able to promote an instance while instance is in progress | |
8382 | Synchronize fails in AWS if no VPCs exist | |
8383 | Cannot synchonize AWS VPC with VMs created by an Abiquo mobility import process in progress or failed; should discard these VMs | |
8385 | Gen-13 Unexpected error when synchronizing a VDC in AWS when the VPC has no subnet created | |
8386 | Conversion process fails under specific circumstances | |
8388 | Error message returned in the logs when successfully synchronizing with AWS | |
8389 | When synchronizing the first instance retrieved by Abiquo is not retrieved with its IP address | |
8392 | Not able to operate with a VM which disk sequences are not contiguous (upgrade 3.4.1 --> 3.6.0) | |
8399 | NetappNot able to create an instance including a netapp volume | |
8406 | Hyper-V - HA will not work for captured VMs since disk cannot be found at its true path |
3.6.2
Configuration changes
Abiquo 3.6.2 uses the DigitalOcean v2 API. The DigitalOcean v1 API has been deprecated and the credentials will not work in v2, so users will need to create new v2 credentials and configure them in Abiquo.
Improvements
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
8448 | Enable customers to change the default SCSI controllertype. See http://wiki.abiquo.com/display/ABI36/VMware+ESX+and+ESXi+Cloud+Node+Configuration#VMwareESXandESXiCloudNodeConfiguration-DiskControllerConfiguration |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
7917 | Template import list is cached between public cloud regions of the same provider | |
7945 | Load balancer network checkbox to select public-private addresses generates unexpected results | |
8002 | The length of the public key field in the create/edit user is not checked | |
8311 | DigitalOcean v1 API will stop working in November 2015. Upgrade to use DigitalOcean v2 API. DigitalOcean v1 credentials will not work in v2, so users will need to create new v2 credentials and configure them in Abiquo | |
8316 | Error trying to synchronize a non existent CloudService, for example, one that was deleted directly in Azure | |
8319 | Add tracers in synchronize process | |
8409 | Popup error messages being displayed continuously after deleting template | |
8410 | Reset password email templates are not working | |
8416 | Not able to delete an external network created with DNS in Azure | |
8424 | UI auto refresh goes back to Enterprise statistics on Home page instead of maintaining the current view | |
8427 | Azure plugin can't delete synchronized subnet if its parent VNet was defined with Capital Letters | |
8429 | Deleting an Azure Public cloud region is not possible if networks exist. External networks should be deleted locally (not in provider) | |
8430 | Reconfigure not working in Azure since External Networks refactor | |
8434 | Digital Ocean - error retrieving templates by ID | |
8435 | Sync for VMs with several floating IPs assigns all IPs to the same sequence number | |
8440 | Allocation rules dialog incorrectly loads DC details | |
8442 | Extracting OVA as root fails on UID/GID restricted NFS shares. The '--no-same-owner' tar option should be used | |
8449 | Error trying to add AWS credentials to an enterprise due to a newly required parameter |
3.6.3
New features
The new Initial support for VMware ESX 6 and ESXi 6 feature provides preliminary support for ESX 6 and ESXi 6.
Abiquo high availability (HA) will not failover a VM from an ESX 6 host to an ESX 5.x or ESX 5 host, or from an ESX 5.x to an ESX 5 host, or from an ESX 5 to ESX 4.x host. Abiquo will failover between two hosts of the same major version and in order to use Abiquo HA, all the hosts on the same rack should be of the same major version.
Improvements
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
8476 | Initial support for VMware ESX 6 and ESXi 6. In order to use Abiquo High Availability, all the hosts on the same rack should be of the same major version |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
8476 | On create role form, paginate and show all scopes in drop-down list |
3.6.4
Improvements
Key | Summary |
---|---|
8479 | For ESXi add options for user to enable CPU and RAM hotplug in VM template. Tested with ESXi 5.5 and 6. Users can set these options for a VM template using the UI or API and then perform hotadd operations directly in the hypervisor. In this initial version, import of templates or capture of VMs with these options are not supported. |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary |
---|---|
8449 | AWS - 500 internal server error trying to add credentials for an enterprise |
8482 | If Chef role description ends with a carriage return, it is not possible to assign it to a VM |
8483 | Not able to modify VM if there is an unmanaged NIC already attached |
8507 | On the Home view dashboard, can't double-click to go to a vApp if its enterprise is not selected in list. Now when you double-click on the vApp of another enterprise, you are automatically switched to that enterprise and a warning popup message appears reporting this event |
8508 | API will not add an unmanaged NIC to VMs that already have an unmanaged NIC |
8512 | 500 internal server error trying to capture two VMs with the same ISO attached. Now it is possible to capture more than one VM with the same ISO attached |
8529 | Network pagination in Infrastructure tab is broken |
8533 | Azure - Reserved IPs .1 to .4 shouldn't be allowed for use in the Azure External network |
8536 | Inconsistency with SCSI disk controllers on ESXi. In a template, Abiquo should not persist a value for a secondary hard disk after it is detached. Explanation: Abiquo only supports one SCSI controller on ESXi. If the primary hard disk controller is null, and the secondary hard disk controller is set, Abiquo should use the secondary controller. But it should not persist this value for the primary disk if a secondary disk is detached |
8537 | Validate an icon in Edit template performs the validation but displays an error in JS console |
8538 | Create external or public network does not open Create IPs dialog if the network is not listed on the current page |
3.6.5
Improvements
Key | Summary |
---|---|
855 | ESXi - Allow multiple SCSI controller implementations in the same virtual machine. Allow different controllers but only one controller of each kind |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary |
---|---|
8552 | ESXI - Reconfigure does not change disks from IDE 0:1 to IDE 0:0 |
8553 | Virtual machine sync should update disk controller type |
8556 | Amazon - Deleting template also removes its recommended hardware profiles |
8557 | Amazon - Deleting a template may delete more templates at once depending on their recommended hardware profiles |
8601 | Cannot deploy standard disks in ESX version 4.1 and 5.0.0 |
8602 | Captured VMs with disks that are not FLAT have no UUID |
8623 | Add Spanish language |
8640 | 2FA Google authenticator app cannot authenticate if link with enterprise name contains spaces |
3.6.6
Improvements
Key | Summary |
---|---|
8814 | Added Events tab under the VM Backup tab to display specific events from the Abiquo Veeam integration. In future versions, the Events tab will display other backup events |
8797 | Backup results: show date using time zone of API system |
Resolved Issues
Key | Summary | Other versions |
---|---|---|
8495 | 500 Internal server error trying to add an external IP that is already created in the network but set as "Not available" | 3.8.2 |
8706 | Configuring a backup when editing a VM requires the privilege: user manage all enterprise. Now enable display of backup tab for user with "Manage virtual machine backups" | 3.8.2 |
8787 | Saving a VM backup in metadata erases other metadata such as monitoring-metrics | 3.8.3 |