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5.4.0

New features

We publish feature descriptions in the New in Abiquo 5.4 section.

Features

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
15596	Public cloud	Set Datastore tier limits at enterprise level (add public cloud)	7182
15412	Scopes	Simplify reseller scope structure
15272	NSX-T	NSX-T
15259	OCI	OCI phase 1
13686	XaaS	XaaS alpha foundation

Improvements

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
15666	Customer integration	Add OCI to public cloud billing run
14637	Google	Add support for Firewall rules as Abiquo Firewall policies
15785	Customer integration	Remove priority filter for ticketing
15771	Customer integration	Use empty string instead of null for enterprise properties during onboarding
15754	Tools	Move nsxt-tool for checking configuration to the tools repository. Please contact Abiquo Support to obtain the tool
15748	API	Add Abiquo 5.4 ASCII logo
15745	UI	UI shows QoS public ips bandwith limit when NSX-t does not work with NAT public ips
15739	UI	Add resource group field to VPN
15738	Oracle	Create volume only encrypted if VOLUME_ENCRYPTION_REQUIRED (OCI)
15736	UI	UI Volume creation should only show plugin controller type
15733	UI	UI is allowing save load balancer when have a pending rule changes to save
15730	Azure, Google	Update old templates to set 'osDisk.diskSizeGB' to a default value. Updated all the old templates for GCP and Azure. The size of old Azure template disks will be 30 GB and GCP template disks will be 50 GB. The user can change this size later.
15728	Customer integration	Check and update import-template tool
15724	Customer integration	Add filter of lineItem/LineItemType in AWS billing	7233
15705	Pricing	Adding pricing credentials launches the entire onboard process for all credentials
15477	Multicloud	Allow disk size and tier edit from VM and Template	7134
15471	Public	Adding pricing credentials launches the billing process for all pricing credentials. It should launch only for the new credentials
15437	AWS	Only show target groups with supported protocols when adding to load balancer
15433	UI	Remove "EBS" from volume creation warning message
15361	UI	Capture VM in NSX-T - If the virtualnic tag is null, then use networkProviderId to select the private network. To capture a VM into a VDC, the VM network must belong to the VDC
15342	Google	Convert Google metrics (values from 0 to 1) to a percentage for Abiquo standard metrics (e.g. abq-cpu_usage)
15002	DRaaS	Rename draas vmProviderId
14784	Technical	Make POM files for each plugin kind. Added in 5.3
14689	Technical	Improve ProtectionManagerService.deleteProtectionManager query in DRaaS
14446	Technical	Improve VM search when initializing vm at VirtualMachineCallbackDelegator
14430	Technical	Use same lastSync date for a whole sync transaction vs use now() each time an entity is updated in DRaaS
13915	Public	Add RG to VPN
12906	SAML	Implement SSO Local Logout
12697	Public	Reduce requests to list volumes in all pools

Resolved Issues

Key	Category	Summary	Ticket
15808	AWS	Create account not working on non-default Amazon regions. See Onboard an account in a nondefault AWS region	7241
15741	UI	Add * to remote network when creating an Azure VPN
15723	Private	Cannot change the abstract datastore tier of a datastore tier
15681	Customer integration	Cannot filter tickets by priority
15651	API	Event API too slow. Improve performance with the following changes Only use the last week's events by default The API endpoint does not allows 0 as a limit (cannot get unlimited events) You can use the dateFrom parameter to override the default dateFrom You can configure the number of days to consider by default on the Abiquo API Server with the 'abiquo.events.list.daysoffset' property
15642	Veeam	Abiquo 5.3.0 + Veeam 10 error 'Maximum allowed length is 50 symbols'
15613	Azure	Health Check provider ID should be case insensitive
15593	UI	Switching between menus in the UI fast enough causes the UI to replicate text
15583	Customer integration	The provider_connection_id and provider_id are not set for credentials of regions with same vCloud endpoint	7175
15576	vCenter	Reconfigure to rename VM does not check if VM name already exists
15547	Technical	AsyncJob error and stacktrace TEXT too long not checked
15515	vCenter	Datastore tier does not refresh after changing host and datastore tier (storage vMotion). Also in 4.7.14
15431	Azure	Cannot create/update Load Balancer using algorithm SOURCE_IP and SOURCE_IP_PROTOCOL
15389	UI	ICMP DNAT Rule not listing ICMP types
13340	Amazon	VM variables doen't work with Windows ec2 instances
13305	Specs	Tenant admin cannot save spec with selected locations. Changed to require more privileges to manage spec locations and scope
11970	API	Not able to allow Datacenter and hardware profiles mode for enterprise at the same time

5.4.1

New features

We publish feature descriptions in the Abiquo 5.4 features section.

This version includes the following new features and notable improvements:

Rubrik backup plugin, see Abiquo and Rubrik backup
Update the MAC addresses of private IPs
New functionality in Abiquo and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Use Guest setup to inject IP addresses without DHCP

Features and Improvements

Key	Category	Description	Customer ticket
15636	OCI	Improve VM clone for autoscaling (OCI instance clone)
15349	OCI	Add OCI Free-form tags as Abiquo multicloud tags
15572	OCI	Add OCI Flex shapes as dynamic hardware profiles for public cloud
15878	User interface	Use a single configurable refresh timer for all views. See Changes to Configuration view
15868	User interface	Remove unnecessary calls from login
15501	Customer integration	Create ticketing integration with API calls to customer ITSM and Abiquo UI ticketing screens
15499	Rubrik	New backup plugin for Rubrik backup provider. See Abiquo Backup Plugins and Configure Rubrik backup plugin
15938	GCP	Review VDC logical delete with google firewall
15941	Rubrik	Refresh vCenter cache
15957	Security	Check issue with log4j - Note: Abiquo does not distribute log4j
15672	vCenter	Sync MAC of existing vNICs. See Edit private IPs to update the MAC address
15936	Rubrik	Backup billing for Rubrik for customer integration
15848	NSX-T	Allow VDS Switches for VMs (non N-VDS environments). No extra configuration is required	7260
15843	Technical	Populate monitors cache on subscriptions refresh
13715	Techncial	API does not start - Multiple triggers of job found
15715	User interface	Block ports to 0 when LB routing rule protocol is set to ALL
15795	User interface	Estimated bill and last bill widgets should load billing providers
15839	Technical	VM subscription in Redis is not refreshed when synchronizing VDC
15549	OCI and Azure	Sync resource group (only). Do not sync all resource groups when onboarding VDCs
15819	API Java Client	Use api-java-client to push custom metrics
13342	Documentation	Improve VM variables documentation to add more details
15759	NSX-T	Disable unnecessary NSX-T device log
15743	NSX-T	For load balancers, allow private key for TLS
15797	Azure	Periodic check of datastore tier names
15900	NSX-T	Implement NSX-T public networks. See Abiquo and NSX-T
15721	Azure	Azure plans tool - Use Abiquo reseller credentials instead of deprecated csp.yml file
15825	User interface	Show logical delete check box if the template is a custom template (private template) in public cloud
8219	Public cloud	Allow users to delete custom templates (private templates) from public cloud providers. See Delete private templates in public cloud
15953	NSX-T	Improve error message when adding public network in which the DHCP server uses a reserved IP. Abiquo reserves the first 20 IP addresses for load balancers, so do not assign one of these addresses to a DHCP server
15992	Documentation	Revise and update abiquo.properties file
15689	NSX-T	Load balancer review rollback on modify and delete
15692	NSX-T	Segment service review rollback on modifySegment
14009	Guest setup	VMWare-tools should inject IP Address for NICs if no DHCP RS available. See Configure guest setup to inject a static IP address without DHCP	6723
15882	Integrations	In public cloud allow VDC sync request to receive an enterprise link
15926	NSX-T	Review private network attribute mapping to NSX-T
15492	Customer integration	Replace customer’s internal API with direct calls to the cloud provider

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Customer ticket
15474	Billing	Azure standard (non-CSP) credentials do not display estimated bill
15902	Amazon	Import hardware profiles prices from a specific region fails
15897	NSX-T	When adding LB Rule cannot unselect SSL certificate
15864	NSX-T	Review LB HTTP(S) client SSL disabled (even if the cert has been successfully added)
15893	Customer integration	List tickets only returns a maximum of 200 tickets	7284
15861	NSX-T	Fix deploy VM using VDS
15834	User interface	Warning message does not display when removing VM with action plan attached
15852	NSX-T	Tier 0 validation can throw error
15833	OCI and GCP	Templates missing constraint for Cores per Socket, which is not supported in these providers
15838	Scope hierarchy	In a hierarchy, a request to get the reseller's parent returns a keynode in the same scope
15835	AWS and Azure	Error deleting public cloud template used by VMs
15837	Azure	Deleting a VM's resource group does not destroy the VM in Abiquo
15809	NSX-T	Cannot create VDC after setting enterprise properties
15812	NSX-T	Error undeploying VApp
15792	NSX-T	Unable to undeploy VM using FW without rules
15820	vCenter	Plugin cannot discover managed hypervisors
15832	User interface	Pricing message can lead to deploy of incorrect VM
15772	AWS	Cannot create AWS VDC if the enterprise has properties with null values	7234
15675	User interface	UI allows the user to create a load balancer without required fields.
15680	Customer integration	Cannot filter tickets by status
15454	GCP	Implement interface poll to detect state changes
5468	vCenter	Rename datastore on the ESX and refresh datastores in Abiquo results in a new entry for the datastore	7147
14286	Azure	Error retrieving templates from invalid regions (France South)
15085	User interface	Availability Zone should not be editable in AWS when the VM is NOT_ALLOCATED
15079	Documentation	Controller type is changed to null when replacing a disk through API. See Upload and replace template disks via API
15218	User interface	Editing a VM template, VM guest setup list should only show values supported by the provider
15906	Billing	Error when creating bills only by categories	7293
15935	vCenter	VM still exists on hypervisor after deploy action has failed (hypervisor tools)
15942	User interface	Dashboard detects changes when clicking on widget header
15911	NSX-T	Adding nsx-t device requires re-login to appear as a device in public network creation
12152	vCenter	When capturing a VM (without bootOrder) using 2 SCSI + 1 DVD the sequences are mixed. Cannot reconfigure VM. Abiquo will capture the VM and add the DVD as an ISO disk in the last position in the disk sequence	7055
15915	NSX-T	Errors deploying and undeploying VApp using abiquo.virtualfactory.nsxt.device.openSession > 1
15918	NSX-T	Error creating FW with "tcp" as protocol
15921	NSX-T	Firewall sync fails for all traffic rule
15653	Customer integration	Switch enterprise generates a lot of events. Integrations can now send an enterprise link in the body of a post request to sync VDCs in a location. Otherwise the sync request will use the user's enterprise
15913	Billing	Billing is generated for enterprises out of scope of tenant hierarchy	7276
15886	Customer integration	Ticketing integration does not work if the ID does not exist in vCloud	7269
15826	Customer integration	ItsmCheck returns UP status even if login fails
15901	NSX-T	If there is a virtual server created directly from NSX-T, sync load balancers fails
15924	OCI	Firewall sync fails if OCI has removed a vNIC's parent resource
15927	Technical	Some events of error does not show the error message
13549	Documentation	Incorrect copyright date on API docs main page
15475	Azure	Billing process using Azure non-CSP credentials does not respect start and end date requested
15980	Azure	Sync PCR fails in Azure due to ConstraintViolationImpl - Apps Library
15960	NSX-T	Manually creating a virtual server (in another load balancer) without server pool breaks the Abiquo load balancer sync with an error
15956	NSX-T	List VM health at LB fails
15972	NSX-T	Delete LB health check from Abiquo does not delete it from nsx-t
15973	Billing	Inconsistency on invoice billing line items for CSP billing
15959	Azure	Sync PCR fails in Azure due to error when VM template is not found
15952	Azure	Sync PCR fails in Azure due to error when FW destination port is null
14023	Billing	API does not start if invalid cron expression is set. If the expression is not valid in Quartz, use the default value.
16008	NSX-T	East-west firewalls are also blocking traffic for DNAT/SNAT. Administrator must configure an external IP to allow traffic. See Changes to Abiquo Configuration Properties
15934	NSX-t	Review private network static routes
15998	Backup	Restore backup privilege was not in use. This privilege is now required and it is not assigned to the standard cloud user by default.
15950	AWS and OCI	Not able to create VDC with a specific network (The CIDR '10.1.0.0/24' is invalid). If the platform will create a private subnet and a public subnet within the VDC address range, the private subnet cannot occupy the whole address range. To create a VDC with a private network that uses a full address range, first create the VDC using another address range, then create the private network separately. See
15947	Azure	Sync PCR fails in Azure due to error when osDiskId is null. Abiquo does not onboard VMs with Azure unmanaged disks, and it will log a warning about these VMs
15830	NSX-T	Add missing nars and virtualfactory properties for NSX-T plugin
15948	NSX-T	Error creating public network if it contains DHCP server

5.4.2

Improvement

Key

Category

Description

Ticket

15985

Azure

Azure firewall should support comma-separated list of single ports and/or port ranges.

In Azure, you can have a comma-separated list of single ports and/or port ranges, such as 80,1024-65535.
In previous versions of Abiquo we supported a single port or a range ports, but not a list of them.
Abiquo will now onboard these firewalls and users can create firewalls with a list of ports and port ranges.

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
16037	Azure	Logical delete of VDC/VM fails because of dummy template used by multiple VMs
16033	Azure	Synchronize VDC onboards VMs without osDisk. Abiquo will onboard VMs without osDisk image but with more than one disk (from image) but without onboarding the OS disk and with the image disk in sequence 0 in Abiquo. In this version, Abiquo should not onboard these VMs. In future versions, Abiquo will be able to onboard them.
16044	Technical	Property abiquo.test.redis.host not used by API IT tests
16031	NSX-T	Error trying to set DNAT rule with "Use all ports" enabled
16038	Public	Use the same VM template to represent images with the same provider ID and within the same enterprise
16030	NSX-T	Load Balancer NAT IP does not exist and traffic to VMs is not allowed.
16042	User interface	Editing a global firewall to set a VDC is not working in GCP
14448	User interface	Column sorting on License tab does not work	7331

Known issue

Key

Category

Description

Notes

16054

Azure

When we set the ALL traffic option for an Azure firewall it only enables port 0, instead of the 0-65535 range.

Workaround: Do not select all traffic, instead select the "Custom protocol" option:
Protocol: ALL
Ports: 0-65535

Version 5.5

5.4.3

Improvements

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
14547	Public cloud billing	Delete cost usage before billing records insertion	7372
15988	Azure	VMs do not onboard if they were created from templates that use disk snapshots

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
16032	Azure	VM with dummy template cannot be reconfigured

5.4.4

Improvements

Key

Category

Description

Ticket

16096

VCD

Add support for VMware Cloud Director v10.3

Abiquo does not support NSX-T with VCD
Abiquo supports NSX with VCD

7355

16127

Rubrik

Rubrik vCenter properties. Enable users to work with more than one VCD public cloud region in Abiquo.
And allow users to completely customize their SLA domains.

See Configure Rubrik backup plugin.

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
16105	Rubrik	Technical change to remove static init block
16151	SAML	Cannot log in with basic auth after SAML login

5.4.5

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Ticket
16213	Public	VCD does not import external IP assigned to a VM. This also applies to other onboard or synchronization of non-floating IPs without GlobalSubnet	7398
16210	VCD	Cannot import orgVdc when using external networks with less than 'abiquo.vcd.reserved-ips' (20) IPs
16207	VCD	Make an instance in a virtual datacenter with multiple VMs creates a temporary vApp (in VCD) that is not deleted

5.4.6

Improvements

Key

Category

Description

Notes

16357

Azure

Modify billing behavior for marketplace products:

SaaS resources, such as Twilio subscriptions, will be billed to the enterprise that the subscription is assigned to
Azure reservations will be billed to the billing subscription that corresponds to the billing scope ID of a billing line item

6.0.1

16404

Azure

Exclude Office products from Azure billing

Added a new system property "abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore" with a string of publishers for which to exclude billing line items in CSV format.
The publisher of Office products is Microsoft Corporation, so to exclude them, use this as the value of the property

6.0.1

Resolved issues

Key	Category	Description	Notes
16290	Veeam	Check if backup session is from Abiquo	Ticket: 7400 6.0.0