Changes to the user interface

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Last updated: Feb 06, 2024
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[ 1 5.0.0 ] [ 2 5.0.1 ] [ 3 5.1 ] [ 4 5.1.1 ] [ 5 5.2.0 ] [ 6 5.2.1 ] [ 7 5.3.0 ] [ 8 5.3.1 ] [ 9 5.4.x ] [ 10 6.0.x ] [ 11 6.1.x ] [ 12 6.2.0 ]

4.2

General

Added wildcards to searches. v42_usr_asterisk_t_asterisk_d_asterisk.png

Apps library

Edit a virtual machine template, create an empty disk, added Allocation type. v42_apl_edit_virtual_machine_template_create_an_empty_disk_allocation.png

Edit a virtual machine template, edit virtual machine template disk, added Allocation type. v42_apl_edit_virtual_machine_template_disk_allocation.png

Virtual machine templates, added list view. Manage VM templates

Configuration

System properties, Security, added SMS gateway. v42_cfg_security_sms_gateway.png 

System properties, Dashboard, added Enable hybrid tab dashboard and Enable optimization tab dashboard. v42_cfg_dashboard_enable_hybrid_optimization_tabs.png

Home

Original statistics view now on Metrics tab, removed Reserved IPs statistic, added new tabs for Hybrid and Optimization, added new dashboards on all tabs.

See Home View

Infrastructure

Capture virtual machine, Network, added Default gateway. v42_inf_capture_virtual_machine_network.png 

Create datacenter, Remote services, added Remote access manager. v42_inf_create_datacenter_remote_services.png

Create network, public, external or unmanaged, added Excluded from firewall. v42_inf_create_network_external_firewall_excluded.png  and   v42_inf_create_network_public_firewall_excluded.png and v42_inf_create_network_unmanaged.png

Create public cloud region, Remote services, added Remote access manager. v42_inf_create_public_cloud_region_remote_services.png 

Datacenter, Servers, add Cluster name. v42_inf_datacenter_servers.png

Edit datacenter, Remote services, added Remote access manager. v42_inf_edit_datacenter_remote_services.png.

Edit public cloud region, Remote services, Remote access manager to be added. See Remote services, add and edit, below.

Networks, External and Public, added Delete IPs button, see Network, private, below. 

Networks, Quarantine, improved Quarantine column with Yes/No indicators.

Remote services, add and edit, added Remote access manager. v42_inf_remote_services_edit_guacd.png

Virtual machines tab added. v42_inf_virtual_machines.png

Virtual machines tab, added column selector. v42_inf_virtual_machines_columns.png

Virtual machines tab, added filter. v42_inf_virtual_machines_with_filter.png

Virtual datacenters

Create alert, added Email list. v42_vap_create_alert_create_alarm.png

Edit virtual machine, edit virtual disk, added Allocation type. v42_vap_edit_vm_edit_virtual_disk_allocation.png

Virtual machine control panel, added Backup policies tab. v42_vap_vm_control_panel_backup.png

Create IP in private network in public cloud provider, added Available IP range. v42_vdc_create_ips_public_range.png 

Create virtual appliance based on spec, added edit firewall rules. v42_vdc_create_vapp_based_on_spec_load_balancers.png

Create virtual appliance based on spec, added warning about missing hardware profile and edit hardware profile. v42_vdc_create_vapp_based_on_spec_no_hwp.png  

Network, private, added Delete IPs button. v42_vdc_private_network_ips.png

Create firewall, changed Description to not mandatory.

Edit virtual machine, General, reactivate Virtual machine keymap selector. v42_vm_edit_virtual_machine_general_information.png

Virtual machine remote access through eye icon, with new Guacamole window.

Virtual machine control panel, added Key button to check initial guest password. v42_vm_control_panel_for_remote_access.png

4.2.3

Configuration view

System properties, Dashboard, removed Enable hybrid tab dashboard and Enable optimization tab dashboard. New privileges control the display of these tabs.

Home

On Hybrid tab, add billing widgets including Latest bills, Estimated bill, Average cost per virtual machine. v42_hom_hybrid_with_billing.png

Add show more bills link. v42_hom_hybrid_billing_widgets_show_more_bills.png

Virtual datacenters

Create scaling group, added Create in maintenance mode checkbox. v42_vm_create_scaling_group.png

Virtual machine control panel, added Show password link for remote access. v42_vm_control_panel_for_remote_access.png

Create virtual datacenter, on General information tab, add NAT network and Default NAT IP dropdown selectors. v42_vdc_create_virtual_datacenter_select_nat_ip.pngç

4.4

Please see Release notes

4.5

Please see Release notes.

4.6.0

General/User

Edit enterprise, Credentials for public cloud. Added Also use for pricing checkbox to public cloud credentials. Added separate Pricing tab 

Events

New Tasks tab to display progress of asynchronous tasks on VDCs and VPNs by user

Infrastructure

Separate private and public tab infrastructure views and details tabs are controlled by new privileges

Changes to remote services in public and private cloud. The NODECOLLECTOR remote service has been replaced with the NARS remote service and the CPP remote service has been removed

Virtual datacenters

When the user creates a VDC, the platform does not automatically create a virtual appliance. Added button to encourage the user to create a VApp

When you onboard a VPC from AWS, the platform does not automatically onboard the default firewall. Synchronize firewalls to onboard the default firewall

Create scaling group, added option to Automatically create a scaling action

Edit scaling group, added new task to display scaling group actions. 

Pricing

Create or Edit pricing model, New tab for prices of Backup policies

Retrieve pricing of hardware profiles from public cloud providers (e.g. Amazon, Azure) and add to Create or Edit pricing model, Hardware profiles

4.6.x 

See Abiquo 4.6 release notes

4.7.0

Home view dashboard

Improvements to Hybrid Billing dashboard charts

Virtual datacenters

Volumes tab for public cloud storage and VM volume support

Control 

New Budgets section

Events

Changes to Events and filters

4.7.1

Login

SAML support

Infrastructure

Networks NAT tab in Public cloud for vCloud Director

Virtual datacenters 

NAT rules on VMs in vCloud Director

External networks in vCloud Director virtual datacenters and VMs 

Encrypted volumes in AWs

Pricing

Backup price per GB 

5.0.0

New user interface

Login

  • Support for multiple authentication types

  • Login error view screen

  • Locale flags

Main view and general

  • Footer links added to username menu

  • Main menu on left with icon images from icon sheet

  • Simplified grids

Home

  • Improved graphs and layouts

Infrastructure

  • New Backup policies tab in public cloud for vCloud Director

Virtual datacenters

  • Virtual datacenter and virtual appliance breadcrumbs at top of screen replace Back to VDC button

  • To view details of a virtual appliance, click the VM button at the top of the VM

  • On the Virtual appliances page, a new options button contains Layer, Spec, and Instance options

Pricing

  • Redesigned view

  • In Abiquo 5.0.0, administrators must edit an enterprise to assign a pricing model

Control

  • Action plans details display on cards

Users

  • Edit enterprise - Credentials

    • Create user account

5.0.1

Apps library

  • After template import from Azure, accept virtual machine template terms for subscription, which requires a privilege

Users

  • Edit enterprise - Credentials

    • Display Account ID record

    • Create user account in provider for portal login

    • User portal link that contains the account ID and generic portal link

Virtual datacenters

  • Create virtual machine

    • When creating a VM from an Azure template, user can accept virtual machine template terms for subscription

5.1

General

  • Create a VM from anywhere, using new +VM button in bottom right-hand corner

Main menu

  • On main menu, Virtual datacenters label has been changed to MyCloud

Hardware profiles

  • Family and Type classifications for hardware profiles

  • Manage Families and Types in Hardware profiles view

Apps library

  • Create VM from VM template (options menu)

Virtual datacenters

Virtual datacenter networks

  • Filter private networks by Availability zone (AWS)

  • Manage address ranges for public cloud 

Virtual appliances

  • Create a VM, enter Label, a user-friendly name for the VM, after selecting the template

  • Filter hardware profiles when creating VM

Virtual machines

  • Increase and decrease hardware profiles of a VM in Edit VM and with buttons on VM details panel

  • ESXI Snapshot backups - as Backup now with Veeam and Standalone as Backups in Abiquo 

Action plans

  • Show HTTP status code in Response field selector

  • Increase and decrease hardware profiles of a VM

Specs

  • When creating a VApp from a spec, match hardware profiles by family and type

5.1.1

Apps library

  • SATA disks and disk management improvements

  • New Edit ISO templates functionality

Virtual machines

  • SATA and disk management improvements

  • ESXi - Disable VNC remote access to enable WebMKS with remote access always available

5.2.0

Home

  • Metrics dashboard meter for Disaster recovery protected VMs  

Infrastructure

  • Protection managers tab for DRaaS

Apps library

  • Bootable field removed from template disks

Virtual datacenters (now myCloud)

  • Global section

    • Resource groups tab for Azure

    • Global networks tab for Google Cloud Platform

  • Networks tab

    • Subnets tab for Google Cloud Platform

VM control panel

  • Shield button to Enable DR protection

  • Crossed shield button to Disable DR protection 

VM details panel and Load balancer details panel

  • Tags tabs

VM icon

  • Shield DR protected symbol indicator on status symbols bar

  • Virtual machines Tags on Options menu

VM

  • VM Edit tags dialog

  • Bootable field removed from VM disks

Tags

  • Tags tab in Edit dialog of  ALL supported resources

5.2.1

Login screen

  • New "SAML + user" option to select from multiple IdPs based on user email

Reporting

  • Abiquo Reports is now opened from the user interface only, using token authentication

Virtual datacenters

  • Manage global networks privilege added for Global Networks sections and Subnet sections 

5.3.0

Home view

  • New dynamic dashboards

  • New dashboard widgets

Infrastructure

  • New DRaaS device for Zerto

Apps library

  • Edit template - advanced tab - new UEFI boot option

Virtual datacenters

  • Load balancers screen has new Target groups tab for AWS Application load balancers

  • Create load balancers, select Application load balancer type

  • User can create public subnets in AWS 

Virtual machines

  • Label field is now Name field

  • New provider ID field

5.3.1

Infrastructure view

  • Abstract datastore tiers tab and management

Users view

  • New Enterprise datastore tier limits

5.4.x

See Abiquo 5.4.x release notes

6.0.x

Home view

  • New widget for VM snapshots

Catalogue

  • Apps library renamed to Catalogue

Global

  • Refresh button to refresh current tab

  • New Services tabs for XaaS 

Infrastructure

  • Abiquo HA removed from rack and physical machine tabs

Users

  • New "only for billing" checkbox for reseller credentials

myCloud

  • New load balancers tab at Global level for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) load balancers

  • New Purpose field for GCP subnet 

Virtual appliances

  • UI configuration can disable display of custom VApp metrics. See Configure Abiquo UI for the client.monitoring.button.alwaysdisplayed property

Virtual machines

  • New VM snapshot buttons on VM control panel

Control

  • New Tag search tab and changes to Tag search filters

  • New Tag policies tab and Compliance report tab

  • Action plans use tags to define VMs and scaling groups target of actions

 

6.1.x

Home view

  • Improvements to widget display

  • For modifying a dashboard, add a "discard changes" button

Pricing

  • New Price factors tab to replace enterprise properties

  • New Regenerate billing tab in Pricing model to regenerate pricing

Users

  • New Themes management tab for Enterprises

  • New Enterprise products tab for Enterprises to work with extra charges

  • New Billing tab in Enterprises for on-premise billing

Configuration

  • New Billing tab to configure on-premise billing

XaaS

  • New metrics for DBaaS with Azure MySQL and Amazon RDS

  • Group and sort service actions

Virtual machines

  • Sort templates in Create VM view

  • New vNIC representation in VM Network on public cloud

  • In VM, display creation time and onboarding time

  • Display icon when a VM has alarms

Extra charges

  • New privileges to control the display of Extra charges tab in VM, VM template, hardware profile

Control

  • Search for alarms in Enterprise and User

 

6.2.0

myCloud view

  • Added Script templates functionality to VMs

Catalogue

  • Added Script templates tab to save VM bootstrap scripts

Control

  • Added Billing tab with Cost usage reports and Cost usage tag reports

Removed UI views and configuration for deprecated features

  • Reports

  • Workflow

  • Persistent VM templates and disks in private cloud

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