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5.1.0
New features
We publish feature descriptions in the Abiquo 5.1 features section.
- Deploy a VM from anywhere
- Veeam 10 backup integration
- Create and deploy a VM from anywhere
- Locations section in virtual datacenters
- Support for SATA disks
- Filter virtual datacenters by provider
- Address ranges for VDCs in public cloud
- Fee per VM
- Capture VMs with duplicate names in different datacenters
- Support for VMware vSphere 7
Key | Summary | Notes |
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13391 | Improve Hardware Profile User experience | |
13166 | Quality of Service for Public IPs | |
12934 | Veeam + Snapshot VMs in ESX/vCenter. Also standalone VMware snapshot | |
12339 | Create a VM from anywhere shortcuts | |
11315 | Add the concept of Fee x VM in the pricing model |
Improvements
Key | Summary | Notes |
---|---|---|
13799 | UI - New ordering properties for hardware profiles in Infrastructure view | |
13783 | Improve ARM daily billing execution time | |
13781 | Deprecate Veeam 9.5
| |
13769 | Allow admin to remove a physical machine with protected VMs - (vCenter cluster migration tool should ignore protected VMs) | |
13753 | Veeam + Snapshot VMs in ESX/vCenter - Review invalid backup results | |
13751 | Create VM popup - Automatically open Create VApp form when VDC is created | |
13746 | Backup plugins should inform if Replication will take effect | |
13677 | Azure: Tag VM with Abiquo name during synchronization | |
13643 | UI - Disable Remote Access Button on unmanaged VMs | |
13621 | Azure ARM - Configure VM: improve error message if public IP does not exist | |
13564 | Improve virtual machine template terms API documentation | |
13552 | Review record reader, it could fail if there is an empty record file | |
13551 | Billing in public cloud - better process zip result file | |
13522 | UI - Add Custom address ranges | |
13507 | Create events for backup | |
13473 | Only keep X snapshots for each VM | |
13472 | Tool to perform snapshot consolidation. Please contact Abiquo Support for more details | |
13461 | Filter VDC list by public cloud regions or private cloud | |
13410 | Some invalid Mediatypes in requests produce incorrect error codes | |
13407 | Custom network (VDC) for Azure and Amazon | |
13365 | Review delete license message | |
13314 | Create Virtual machine from every section of the UI | |
13241 | Improve All virtual datacenters by adding separate Locations section for resources at PCR or DC level | |
13237 | Azure - Improve error message when reconfigure action fails (invalid size or hardware profile)) | |
13210 | Use same version for all Azure management API endpoints | |
13133 | OpenID - HTTP Error message with external scopes | |
13081 | User interface - Auto-select suitable parent scope | |
13054 | Add the entity name to Edit popups | |
13045 | Remove or disable options menu for unmanaged virtual machines | |
12975 | Add credentials: improve message error if credentials are not valid (also) for pricing | |
12592 | Add filter by Availability zone to private networks | |
12335 | ARM - Deploy operations force too many unneeded calls | |
12257 | Look up virtual machines using internalProviderId | |
11321 | UI - Allow filtering of VDCs by provider | |
10514 | Filter VDCs by provider/endpoint | |
9714 | Improve logging when Tomcat user cannot access configuration file path set in abiquo.properties |
Resolved issues
Key | Summary | Notes |
---|---|---|
13801 | HP name > 64 characters causes billing using DBMS connector to crash. Names truncated | |
13798 | Assign load balancer to virtual datacenter - dialog text is wrongly displayed | |
13796 | Cannot undeploy and delete VM in public cloud if the enterprise does not have credentials | |
13794 | Infrastructure - Hardware profiles - ordering by some parameters does not work | |
13767 | Usability improvements for Customer integration and various in Firefox 68. When creating a VM, enter the label after you select the template | |
13750 | Events - Executing action plan with Webhook returns data truncation error | |
13741 | Billing - DBMS mode with row per usage, cost codes are not displayed. Use Billing v5.0.2 | |
13739 | User interface - Cannot add vCloud credentials without switching to the same enterprise | |
13716 | Wrong IP range for Azure and Amazon private networks - IP no. 4 is available to use | |
13690 | Adapt layout of customer integration to Abiquo v5 | |
13685 | Azure - VM not attached to load balancer after synchronize | |
13684 | Incorrect links and English errors on API docs home page | |
13680 | Typo in dnsmasq default configuration | |
13676 | Azure: onboard VM could fail sometimes because Azure request does not return disks list | |
13665 | dnsmasq - Cannot add lease after restarting Tomcat | |
13664 | Azure ARM - Not able to sync private network address | |
13662 | Tooltip label for disabled physical machine says Disable physical machine | |
13657 | The dates in Date and Expiration columns are not visible in Backup results | Customer ticket: 6636 |
13655 | Bug on Enterprise home screen | Customer ticket: 6700 |
13618 | Add address range to VDCs created by functional tests | |
13610 | vcenter-tags tool support for vcenter linked mode. Add option to not delete unused tags | Customer ticket: 6695 |
13601 | Azure - For power off and deallocate, the confirmation messages are for shutdown/power off | |
13596 | WebMKS console fills fully the browser tab overlapping the 'send CAD' button | Customer ticket: 6652 |
13590 | Azure - Cannot list template with Unrecognized OS type nor get template with null hyperVGeneration | |
13568 | When the API is down, the login error page displays the 2FA form | |
13540 | UI - Recommended datastore tier selector disabled in VM creation prompt when PRICING_MANAGE privilege is not present | Customer ticket: 6665 |
13535 | Date format mismatch between different areas in the UI | Customer ticket: 6660 |
13520 | List virtual datacenters ordered by ascending ID doesn't work | |
13517 | Azure - It's possible to import the same template more than once | |
13498 | Button to show Default credentials does not display on VM details panel | |
13480 | Default template icons for OS types do not display | |
13474 | UI generating incorrect request on Edit virtual machine storage tab | |
13468 | Ordering by volume parameters fails in Infrastructure for Availability zone, Bootable, or Enterprise | |
13466 | Pricing tab in Enterprise doesn't display more than 25 pricing templates | |
13459 | User interface - Create PCR form is autofilled | |
13454 | Unavailable instance template has regular template options menu items | |
13437 | Networker - Finish Backup with replication event is missing | |
13430 | NAT rules are not correctly displayed | Customer ticket: 6610 |
13404 | Locked spinner for VM in scaling group displays in middle of panel | |
13397 | In Virtual datacenters on the Volumes tab, ordering by some parameters fails | |
13322 | Veeam - FAILED backups are retrieved as Backup results for the VM | |
13242 | Add availability set to logical delete of VDC (delete it in the platform only) | |
12994 | External networks not imported when adding a public cloud region. Use the API to retrieve external networks with source=REMOTE or onboard/synchronize a VDC after creating a PCR (and optionally a VDC) | |
12832 | Logical delete of volumes (in PCR with or without credentials) | |
12804 | Backup - Restore action does not refresh last_restore_result_check field | |
12623 | English errors in scheduler log messages | |
12468 | Threshold labels for autoscaling action are difficult to understand. Change from "Threshold: XXX - XXX units" to "Scale in below XXX units" and "Scale out above XXX units" | |
12280 | Unauthenticated requests return wrong HTTP status code | |
11971 | Editing a running VM in AWS, monitoring level drop down blank with no options | |
11387 | After creating one role or scope it is necessary to select user's enterprise to find it. Now after creating a role, automatically select the enterprise | |
10653 | Inconsistent use of template variables in virtual machines. Now the user cannot add empty variables to a template or VM. User cannot deploy VMs with empty variables. If a VM is already deployed, the user cannot modify the variables and the platform will return an error |
5.1.1
New feature guides
The following feature guides describe new features in Abiquo 5.1.1:
Features and improvements
Key | Category | Summary | |
---|---|---|---|
14179 | Backup | Use VMware snapshot with Veeam 10. To upgrade the Veeam+Snapshot integration, first upgrade to Veeam 10. See Configure Abiquo Veeam backup plugin | |
13953 | Azure | Allow Azure credentials without app_id to enable customers of Azure partners for billing only. | Also in 5.0.3 |
13904 | Backup | Create backup manager with Veeam 10 | |
14029 | vCenter | Enable WebMKS by disabling VNC remote access. | |
13810 | Customer integration | Some popups have an excessive width | Also in 5.0.3 |
13809 | Customer integration | Apps library template name is always cropped | Also in 5.0.3 |
13789 | Backup | Create Veeam 10 plugins |
Resolved issues
Key | Category | Summary | |
---|---|---|---|
14082 | Backup | Veeam cache fails to load when Veeam server uses hypervisor not used with Abiquo. Add new Veeam property to specify hypervisors used with Abiquo. See Configure Abiquo Veeam backup plugin | Ticket: 6785 |
14081 | Private cloud | Cannot delete a disk/ISO if it is in Sequence 0 | Ticket: 6723 Also in 5.0.1 |
14077 | Backup | Networker fails creating backup with size in KB bigger than Integer range | |
14067 | Metrics | Scaling group composite metrics not syncing correctly | |
14053 | Private cloud | Problems finding ISO disks on controller when modifying disks | |
14047 | Billing | Billing issue: the list of available providers shows more entries than those allowed by the license | Ticket: 6777 Also in 5.0.4 |
14015 | Customer integration | Errors while creating an Azure account | Ticket: 6775 |
14002 | Azure | Unexpected error after saving Azure credentials. Administrator should check that the credentials are from the correct subscription | Ticket: 6768 Also in 5.0.4 |
14001 | Public cloud | My cloud VDC → Locations, public IPs do not display on load | |
13996 | Azure | Azure billing - No estimated values if no bills have been generated | Also in 5.0.3 |
13987 | User interface | Edit ISO controller in template disk and review ''Select an ISO disk'' edit | |
13958 | vCenter cluster | Deploy failure when NFS template repository is added on some of the hosts in a cluster. | Also in 4.7.7 and 5.0.3 |
13808 | User interface | VM backup Events tab doesn't display event details | Also in 5.0.3 |
13807 | User interface | VM backup tab crops "Backup now" button | Also in 5.0.3 |
12154 | Private cloud | Support SATA disks / Cannot remove default client DVD (disconnected passthrough at SATA 0:0). | |
10347 | NSX | Used NAT IPs should not be selectable as default NAT IP when creating a new VDC |
5.1.2
New feature guides
The following feature guides describe new features in Abiquo 5.1.2:
Features and improvements
Key | Category | Summary | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
14327 | Backup | In Veeam+VMware snapshot plugins and VMware snapshot plugins, allow duplicate VM names. In Remote Services properties or in the Backup manager, the vCenter endpoint must be exactly the same as the Manager IP of the Abiquo physical machine, even including the protocol. If necessary, delete the existing backup manager and create a new one. For example, ''vcenter01.example.com'' will not match '' https://vcenter01.example.com '' | |
14122 | vCenter | Support for vCenter 7. Deprecation of vCenter 5.x | |
14039 | Monitoring | Metrics support for VMs with duplicate names | |
13961 | Backup | Veeam - Allow the same backup manager in different datacenters and allow duplicate VM names in different datacenters with backup. All Abiquo job names on the Veeam server must be changed to the new format: ABQ vm_name:internal_provider_id [Schedule] ([DISABLED]) Run tool to modify Veeam job name as part of the upgrade process. | |
13814 | Private cloud | Allow administrator to capture VMs with the same names in different datacenters. Add new property to enable this functionality. Run tool to modify internal VM identifiers as part of the upgrade process. |
Resolved issues
Key | Category | Summary | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
14325 | KVM | VNC access through the UI is disabled | |
14314 | Private cloud | Cannot attach SATA volume to deployed VM | |
14283 | vCenter | Error when retrieving VMs - and duplicated VM name in another hypervisor (duplicate VM retrieved but not captured) | |
14245 | vCenter cluster | Cannot deploy thin disk if the 'first' host which mounts the datastore is in maintenance mode | Ticket: 6826 Also in 4.7.9 |
14229 | NSX | NSX NAT - Cannot delete NAT rules that do not exist in the NSX | |
14226 | Private cloud | Error deleting public IP | |
14218 | vCenter | User interface: cannot relocate a VM | Ticket: 6819 |
14197 | Customer integration | Account creation error when trying to add a subscription to the customer | Ticket: 6775 Also in 5.0.5 |
14195 | Backup | User interface: User with the appropriate privileges can't assign backup policies | Ticket: 6816 |
14109 | Public cloud | Error while synchronizing public hardware profiles after the provider introduced new hardware profiles. Error: Hardware profile name must be unique for each datacenter | |
13806 | OpenID | Cookie is not sent on login with OpenID. Add new property to define the SameSite flag | Ticket: 6706 |
13770 | Private cloud | Enable administrator to capture VMs with volumes. Add new property to import and capture VMs with volumes. Note that the capture process will not register the volumes in the platform. |
5.1.3
For details of changes to properties in this version, see Changes to Abiquo Configuration Properties.
Improvements
Key | Category | Summary | Notes |
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15001 | Azure | Rename Feign timeout configuration properties for Azure plugin. Properties added in 5.2 had the format: Rename to specify that those properties belong to the Feign HTTP client for the Azure plugin | 5.0.10, 5.2.1 |
14986 | Public cloud | Remove credentials if CreateAccountResponseListener#done fails. | 5.0.10, 5.2.1 |
14744 | Customer integration | Modify proxy fields to support new Azure CSP fields | 5.0.10, 5.2.1 |
14736 | Azure | User interface - Add "organizationRegistrationNumber" property to account creation | 5.0.7, 5.2.1 |
14728 | Azure | CSP customer onboarding needs phone number and organization INN. Add new properties for default values. | 5.0.7, 5.2 |
14677 | vCenter | User interface - Improve datastore management | 4.7.10, 5.2 |
14673 | vCenter | Review Datastore Management | 4.7.10, 5.2 |
14490 | vCenter | Improve datastore management | Ticket: 6907 4.7.10, 5.2 |
Resolved issues
Key | Category | Summary | Notes |
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15026 | vCenter | State polling of a VM moved to a host/cluster not managed by Abiquo but in the same vCenter causes VM to no longer be in cache (so cannot publish destroy when VM is gone) | 4.7.12, 5.21 |
14993 | Database | Data too long for column 'idResource' at row 1 | |
14992 | Azure | Azure - Timeout issues during account creation | 5.0.10 |
14989 | Azure | Remove final space in GraphAPI#addMemberToDirectoryRole | 5.0.10, 5.2.1 |
14985 | Azure | List hardware profile can cause OutOfMemoryError | 5.0.10, 5.2.1 |
14981 | ESXi | State polling of a VM with tasks causes VM to be no longer in cache (so cannot publish destroy when VM is gone) | Ticket: 6966 4.7.11, 5.2.1 |
14968 | vCenter | Sometimes free resources on destroy VM fails in the case of 'non-empty disk not in repository' | 4.7.12, 5.2.1 |
14955 | vCenter | Unable to set a correct DNS suffix, which starts with a digit, for a network | Ticket: 6967 5.2.1 |
14624 | Azure | Customer Daily ARM billing integration - Data truncation: Data too long for column 'unit' at row 1 | Ticket: 6921 5.2 |
14453 | Amazon | Virtual Machine monitoring level is not correctly cloned | 5.2 |
14425 | vCenter | Can deploy VMs on datastores with maintenance mode enabled in vCenter | Ticket: 6872 4.7.10, 5.2 |
14420 | Azure | Create account User Account Administrator role not found. Added property: abiquo.azure.account.creation.app.directoryrole.templateid | 5.0.6, 5.2 |