Abiquo 5.3 features

Abiquo 5.3 introduces the following features.

Application load balancers in AWS

Abiquo 5.3 introduces support for AWS Application load balancers. Application load balancers send traffic to target groups of IP addresses or VMs. Abiquo also continues to support Classic load balancers.

For a full description of Application load balancers, see the Amazon documentation at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html.

Create public subnets in AWS

Abiquo creates a VDC in AWS as a VPC with one private subnet, and one public subnet and a NAT gateway. Abiquo 5.3 enables the user to create more public subnets, which are subnets with a routing table that routes traffic to the internet gateway. 

Datastore tier limits

Abiquo 5.3 introduces a new limit for datastore tiers to enable you to better control the use of storage with different service levels in your private cloud datacenters. 

Dynamic dashboards

In Abiquo 5.3, the dashboards are now dynamic, and administrators and users can create new dashboards. Users can customize dashboards with a selection of widgets, which they can move and resize. And the platform now has a catalog of widgets, so users can add them to the dashboard canvases. 

Filter and paginate the list of VMs on a server

Abiquo 5.3 adds pagination and a filter when you list VMs on a server and in the UI and via API. This will make it easier for administrators to capture VMs from hypervisors in private cloud, making it faster to onboard VMs into the platform and saving valuable administrator time.

Identify VMs with their provider ID

Abiquo 5.3 will now identify all deployed VMs by their provider ID. This will improve performance and management of VMs and save administrator time.

Public cloud billing improvements

Abiquo 5.3 introduces many improvements to public cloud billing. In the user interface, users with reseller or standard accounts can easily generate billing data on demand for public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Abiquo has improved the performance of requests to public cloud billing in the back end. And Abiquo has added more parameters and configuration to the API to support these improvements.

UEFI boot

Abiquo 5.3 now enables you to deploy VMs with UEFI boot on VMware hypervisors, as well as the previous default of BIOS boot. It is easy to enable this feature for any compatible template in the Abiquo service catalog.

Datastore tier limits for tenants

Abiquo 5.3.1 introduces a new tenant limit for datastore tiers across your cloud platform to enable you to better control the use of storage with different service levels in all cloud locations.