Abiquo 4.6 release notes

11775

Simplify the creation of an autoscaling action

11745

Monitoring performance test ⚔

11210

Add backup in pricing and pricing template models

11208

Set allocation limits at the provider level

11205

Azure VPN

11173

Azure: Update price information from Azure in each HP in the Enterprise Pricing Model

11172

AWS: Create process to get price (PVP) from AWS price list and update HP prices in Enterprise Pricing list

11816

Improvements in monitoring. See Configure VM Monitoring and Metrics

• Upgraded to KairosDB 1.2.2
• Changes to KairosDB and Cassandra properties

11796

Encrypt internal account ID for Azure, which is "subscription_ID#application_ID#tenant_ID" (not pricing access ID)

• Admin must remove credentials and add them again as part of the upgrade process

11779

Add currency to pricing for public cloud region and datacenter level, which will also be used in pricing estimate

10760

New Discovery manager remote service (NARS).
Replaces old Discovery Manager (NODECOLLECTOR) and Cloud Provider Proxy (CPP)

12109

Log failed executions in nars log

12087

Improve display of virtual appliance pricing button and currency in UI

12086

User interface - error StackTraces always display "Show less"

12079

UI - Scope - allow create/edit with all enterprises and parent scope

12052

Fix options button of VM so that it always displays; if there are no options, display an "empty" message when the user activates the button

12042

ARM - Add new Azure regions in South Africa

11991

Get prices from provider should apply currency of region from pricing

11933

vCenter-tags tool - Allow user to specify which tags to apply. If no list of tags to apply is specified, apply all tags

11917

Retrieve metrics from powered off VMs in VCD live metrics / ESX.

• The platform will not attempt to retrieve live metrics when a VM is OFF
• When no metrics are retrieved for an OFF VM, do not log a warning

11905

For a Scaling group, display scaling actions with action plans / alerts / alarms / metrics, when the user edits the scaling group

11904

Create defaults for a Scaling group in the UI. The defaults are in the UI configuration (client-config-default.json) and the admin can configure them

11898

Add an empty view to VApp list: include a message telling the user to create a VApp and a create button.

11807

UI performance: remove "last_task" query param from virtual appliances list

11805

UI performance: remove query param ''expand=last_task'' in list virtual appliances

11784

UI - track asynchronous tasks of a user on VDCs and VPNs. New Tasks tab in Events view.

• See Asynchronous tasks and display task progress

11783

New API endpoint to list asynctasks of a user

11778

In Infrastructure view, Public and Private should be managed by different privileges

• See Multicloud infrastructure privileges, Changes to privileges

11718

Create events when the platform runs an action plan

11667

ARM - Hide NIC sequence because plugin does not support reorder

11666

Allow push of data points to scaling group clone VMs. User cannot create alarms for custom metrics of clone VMs. Scaling groups have alarms that use all the aggregate of metrics of all VMs

11376

Scopes - Should be able to add a scope with "Use all Datacenters" / "Use all enterprises" to a hierarchy

11374

API - Return public cloud region's Account ID for enterprise credentials

11338

Upgrade Liquibase Version in development environments

11317

Define which interfaces a Device could implement and generate DevicePluginManager

11250

UI - Remember last language used.

All lang_xx_XX_labels.json files MUST end with an "__EOF" label (with double underscore character "_")

We have added the label for en_US and es_ES.
If you do not add this label for other languages, then the UI will not load correctly, and the login form will not display.

11131

Action plan entry templates are using String where integer/long applies

10296

Allow user to set their own private network gateway.

• See How to create a custom private network gateway

10252

Avoid error log in Watchtower emmett.log for getMetric if metric is not found

10160

We are trying to retrieve metrics from powered off VMs. This is legitimate because some measurements could exist before power off

10027

Load Balancers - Modify action should notify that an embedded address is required

9717

Load Balancers - Not able to attach them into VDC after synchronization process. Requires Load balancers tab at VDC level

12190

vCloud - Undeploy action fails when using cloud-init with multiple orgVdcs

12169

vCloud - Existing VMs in OFF state are automatically set to Power ON after deploying another VM

12153

Cannot capture VM with 2 SCSI and 1 DVD if using ''abiquo.capturedhcp'' property to capture DHCP configuration

12151

Cannot reconfigure a captured VM with 2 SCSI and 1 DVD. Allow modifications that do not affect disk. Known issue key 12154 with disconnected default client DVD on SATA 0:0 related to possible changes from vCenter 6.5

12098

Error accessing a VApp with pricing - It is possible to have create a VM with CPU / RAM values by editing hardware profiles

12088

Error when entering a VApp when user does not have "Access Pricing view" privilege

12071

Backup result check running while backup or restore is in progress causes duplicated results in DB and future errors.

12044

Jenkins - packages sometimes come without "powershell-scripts/filelist" file

12040

Action plan entry 'send email' should send email from the platform, not from the user who created the action plan

12026

Changing hardware profile in Azure does not upgrade the old one in the platform after sync

11989

ARM - Reconfigure fails at random when checking Disk SKU to handle premium storage. Abiquo does not support premium storage in Azure

11974

Veeam jobs are not disabled when the VMs are undeployed if they were vMotioned before

11930

All allowed vCloud regions are listed in the Apps Library (even if no credentials are added)

11924

Events lost: cannot store some events with long entity names in the database

11903

Ec2 billing - "billing_period_enddate" values not added to API correctly

11901

Improve VM list performance for more than 100 VMs

11844

Remove auto-create of virtual appliance when creating virtual datacenter. Now a user must create a virtual appliance in order to create a VM. Added an extra button to encourage user to create a VM

11842

The IP fields for creating a physical machine should accept host name (FQDN). This includes Server IP for discovery, Manager IP, Service IP, Agent IP, and IPMI IP

11841

Editing VM from Infrastructure / VMs tab, user is not able to save

11839

Default cloud admin user needs a default email. Default is now none at abiquo com. Please change the cloud admin's email address when you first log in!

11686

API pagination of hardware profiles in public cloud region does not work

11681

ARM - Cannot reconfigure a VM added to a firewall

11668

Amazon - Add support for AWS China Northwest region

Ticket:
5840

11650

Abiquo RAM metric has incorrect description (abq-ram-usage)

11639

Unable to create concurrently alarms for same metric

11498

Review labels in Spanish

11446

ARM - Cannot undeploy a VM with multiple NICs and assigned to multiple SGs/FWs

11429

ARM - Undeploy VM fails if there are names repeated in provider

11402

Restrict access to VDC has a behavior contrary to the expected. Label changed to "Limit access to VDCs"

11401

Errors in Virtual Machines Resource method names for API docs

11386

Load balancer attached Nodes preview does not show NOT_ALLOCATED VMs

11385

Editing a VM, the button to "Synchronize public IPs" doesn't work

11380

Invalid pricing model - enterprise association is not correctly maintained after switching enterprise

11375

Bad scroll over scroll in VApp spec review window

11358

Azure ARM - Error deploying with nonexistent network

11332

vCloud - Synced private networks are recreated in the platform with wrong address. Private network CIDR was using the first IP in the scope range, but it should use a network address. No database upgrade is done, user must import a VDC again to fix the issue.

11328

Selecting wrong provider while attaching enterprise credentials perform bad requests

11246

Change to tokens in OpenID authentication. See Abiquo OpenID Connect Integration

11192

Veeam - Backups do not expire in Abiquo so we show results of backups that have expired in Veeam.

• Added configuration properties to set the max restore points of a job for each schedule type. See Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin

11176

Wrong URL in event management for datastore tier creation

11147

Azure - Not possible to delete public IP without VDC

11128

Stored Procedure VM_HOURS takes too long and causes connections to time out. Added new index to accounting database

10984

vcenter-tags tool - Should use vmname query parameter

10867

Missing virtual appliance name in 'Create restricted VApp' event

10854

Veeam - Error in list_results method if restore_result state stays IN_PROGRESS

10621

Delete disks that are not in repo when VM destroy request is received (Cloud-init ISO)

10551

Improve management of concurrent creation of public IPs

10472

It's not possible to edit the description of backup policies when they are assigned to a VM. User can now edit: name, code, description

10466

UI - Create Load balancer displays subnets section even when private IPs are not allowed by configuration

10346

Incomplete "ESX needs reboot" message. Added HostSystem name (customer name and its mob id) to logs and exceptions in the discovery process

9090

Resellers can display the pricing model applied to their tenant, but they should also be able to display its prices

12186

Improve Optimization dashboard 4.6.1. See Dashboard improvements. If your documentation contains screenshots, you may wish to update them.
Also, s part of the dashboard CSS improvements, you can customize the widget panel background color in your theme style sheet. See Changes to branding

12082

Enable administrator to create multiple VDCs for NSX-ECMP Plugin by entering context properties. See Create more than one VDC in NSX ECMP

12030

Private IP Reservation via Abiquo. See Private IP reservation

11830

Default firewall policy for a VDC. See Default firewalls for virtual datacenters

11828

Move a VM between two VDCs. See Move a VM to a different VDC

12417

AWS - Error trying to access information about network interfaces of hardware profiles that are not defined in Abiquo

12384

Cannot get the async task after creating a virtual datacenter when the location is not in scope

12370

For enterprises with accounts that are not managed (i.e. not CSP), the platform should not look for discounts and price factor properties

12366

vCloud Director - Sometimes cpu, coresXsocket, or ram of a deployed VM are not the values from the Abiquo VM configuration.
Check that the values configured in the VM have priority over the values of the template

12345

OpenID - User deactivation issue

12320

Action plan - Old email address appears when creating a second action plan

12300

vCloud - Cannot take instance of an imported virtual machine

12295

vCloud - Cannot synchronize or use firewalls (NOT classic firewall) created using a version prior to 4.6

12289

Conversions lose VHD extension so Azure Export fails

12286

Dashboard widgets - public IPs are not displayed as Unused IPs when they are created but not purchased yet

12285

Show virtual machines usage and limits on Metrics tab of dashboard for enterprise resources and VDC resources

12278

"Infinity" value displays in "Average cost per virtual machine" on billing dashboard on Hybrid tab

12277

"Needs synchronization" message on VApp is confusing. Changed to "Partially deployed"

12275

Create/Edit Alarm/Alert events won't work for unresolvable IPs (i.e. Public API IP)

12267

vCloud - Synchronization process does not detect extra disks on VMs (but import does).
See Improvements to vCloud Director Integration

12264

API documentation - Missing forward slash in method URL for get VLAN tag availability in a datacenter

12252

Failed reconfigure does not restore the layer/anti-affinity rules

12251

User interface - Error in connection data for check, before creating physical machine

12249

ARM - jclouds - 409 Conflict concurrently creating rules in Firewall. Changes made in jclouds

12245

Error creating an action plan with a name longer than 40 characters

12240

Accounting does not stop for VMs when we DELETE instead of UNDEPLOY

12236

Failed reconfigure does not restore the network configuration

12231

Edit physical machine form auto-completes password with user stored by browser

12230

API documentation - text area does not display an example properly in Firefox

12219

Layers - VM cannot be selected while it is being deployed

12201

ARM - Delete private network returns OK but sometimes does NOT delete the subnet in Azure

12183

Add new OSTYPES (ESX). Upgrade to CIM 2.51.0 Add GuestOsIdentifiers from 6.7. Recognize new ostypes in OVF.
See Guest operating system definition for VMware vSphere 5 and 6

12106

Amazon - New ARM architecture requires recommended HP not supported by Abiquo

12078

No vCloud Director on credentials tab when creating an enterprise but it is present on the edit dialog

12031

Provide ContextProperties from request - Create more than one VDC in NSX-ECMP

11902

Amazon - Creating a VDC no longer retrieves the "default" firewall

11900

Amazon - Error synchronizing firewalls when no VPCs

11814

User interface - Undeploy post sends a VM but specifies virtualmachinetask media type, and undeploying a VM requires forceUndeploy attribute

11639

Unable to concurrently create two alarms for the same metric

11116

Azure - Sync floating IP used by load balancer is not updating VDC.
Sync IPs will fix this issue, but a full VDC sync may cause the issue to recur

10237

Backup - API returns an error if the JSON payload is missing a Type attribute

9810

vCenter plugin does not filter management IPs.
See Detect vCenter management IPs

12462

Error in Azure ARM server response makes the provider unusable: you cannot add credentials, import templates, or deploy VMs.

We have decided not to wait for the Azure fix because the problem has been fixed through jclouds. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1503

This version of Abiquo has the latest version of jclouds to fix the issue in customer environments.

12147

Use JSON templates for Action plans. This feature enables clients of the API (including the UI) to obtain the details of actions in JSON format for use in creating action plans, making the API easier to use.

12104

Introduce read-only and hidden enterprise properties.

• New privilege "Manage enterprise properties" (in the API "ENTERPRISE_MANAGE_PROPERTIES") to set types and allow access to hidden properties
• All administrators who can switch enterprises (and in the UI manage enterprises) can manage read_write properties and display read_only properties

See Protect enterprise properties with types

10689

Usage API to get Accounting and Billing information. See Usage data in VM hours from the API

12522

Error while reconfiguring a VM in a layer with special characters in its name

12520

Connection leak in VF when client connects to message queue after a failure.

• Now the check of the virtual factory remote service (VFRS) does not check that the state of the AMQP connection or channels are okay
• If the VFRS cannot connect to AMQP, it will not be able to start the VF webapp

12510

Cannot change remote access password when using hot reconfigure of remote access. This is a VMware issue with ESXi version >= 6.5

On the Infrastructure Statistics screen, the labels show "Available"/"Used" for VMs. These should be: VMs Powered On/Powered Off

12603

Billing dashboard - Rename enterprise properties for price factor and discount. The old property names have been deleted. You must use the new property names to display data on the Billing dashboard. The changes are as follows:

• CSP_pricefactor →  azurecompute-arm_price_factor
• CSP_discount → azurecompute-arm_discount
• AWS_pricefactor →  amazon_price_factor

12601

For Cost Usage API, rename enterprise properties and in billing period. The old property names have been deleted. You must use the new properties to obtain Cost Usage reports. The changes are as follows:

• contract_id → internal_customer_id

VEEAM - Some backup results are not shown

Use cost codes to match hardware profiles during capture or synchronization and when enabling hardware profiles

• In private cloud, when the platform synchronizes a VM with the hypervisor and there are no configuration changes, maintain hardware profiles with cost codes. When reconfiguring a VM, maintain hardware profiles with cost codes
• When enabling hardware profile mode for an enterprise, match hardware profiles with VM template cost codes
• When capturing a VM, the template does not have a cost code, so it is not possible to match hardware profiles

Abiquo assigns private reserved IPs addresses to VM when deploying it