Abiquo 3.6 release notes

[ 1 3.6.0 ] [ 2 3.6.1 ] [ 3 3.6.2 ] [ 4 3.6.3 ] [ 5 3.6.4 ] [ 6 3.6.5 ] [ 7 3.6.6 ]



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

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

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

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
3.4.3

8393

Not all requests to virtual factory require a VirtualMachineDefinition

 



Resolved Issues

Key

Summary

Other versions

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

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

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

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

Key

Summary

Other versions

8476

On create role form, paginate and show all scopes in drop-down list

 








3.6.4



Improvements

Key

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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






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