OnApp 5.5 Release Notes
OnApp 5.5 was released on Sep 6, 2017. You can upgrade to OnApp version 5.5 from the 5.4 and 5.0 LTS versions. For details refer to the Upgrade Guide.
The following section lists all the features, improvements, and fixes included in OnApp 5.5 release for all components.
Key | Type | Summary | Affects Version/s |
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CORE-9126 | Feature | Added ability to add private vCenter compute zones to Federation and to create and manage vCenter VSs via the Federation. | |
CORE-10100 | Feature | Added possibility to add secondary disks for VSs using the XFS file system. | |
CORE-6414 | Feature | Added support of CentOS 7 operating system as OnApp Xen compute resource. | |
CORE-8499 | Feature | Implemented ability for certain users to approve or decline transactions performed by other users in the cloud. | |
CORE-7799 | Feature | Improved OVAs functionality: added slider, which enables hot migration for OVA virtual servers; added Windows support for OVA; added support of additional file formats for virtual hard disk drives. | |
CORE-8676 | Feature | Improved Service Add-ons functionality: added ability to assign service add-on during VS creation; added 'On Destroy VS' and 'On Rebuild VS' events; added Raise Event action; added slider which enables VS provisioning for service add-on; added ability to run recipe action on Control Panel; added ability to add icon for service add-on group. | |
CORE-8228 | Feature | Improved OnApp and vCenter integration functionality: updated statistics collection mechanism; created a mechanism which synchronizes changes in vCenter with OnApp. | |
CORE-10034 | Feature | Implemented all power state actions for vApps. | |
CORE-9862 | Feature | Added ability to select service add-ons for vCD virtual servers when creating or recomposing a vApp. | |
CORE-9579 | Feature | Added new type of Cloudboot compute resource - CloudBoot Provisioning and Backup Resource, based on CentOS 7. | |
CORE-9527 | Feature | Added in beta the ability to use epochs mechanism for Integrated Storage data stores, which helps to decrease vDisk repair time. | |
CORE-9522 | Feature | Added list of API requests to perform different health checks in Integrated Storage diagnostics. | |
CORE-8806 | Feature | Added ability to enable acceleration for VSs in Federation. | |
CORE-7883 | Feature | Implemented service insertion framework functionality, which allows you to bring other portals into OnApp. | |
CORE-7819 | Feature | Added ability to view prefetch and purge transactions statuses at the Control Panel. | |
CORE-7811 | Feature | Added ability to select a backup server zone when adding a compute zone to Federation. | |
CORE-7672 | Feature | Added UEFI support with PXE boot for KVM CloudBoot compute resources and backup servers on CentOS6/CentOS7. | |
STORAGE-2032 | Improvement | Added ability to specify SSH keys when accessing shadow VS from compute resources on source cloud. | |
INSTALLER-277 | Improvement | Added ability to use openssl utility to generate random passwords. | |
INSTALLER-275 | Improvement | Updated parted to the version 3.2, which supports disks with logical/physical sector size > 512B for CentOS 7.x Static and CloudBoot Backup Server and Xen/KVM compute resources. | |
INSTALLER-268 | Improvement | Enabled logging for the monit service on CentOS 5.x and 6.x. | |
INSTALLER-266 | Improvement | Implemented an ability for the CP installer to proceed with quick update procedure. | |
INSTALLER-263 | Improvement | Added xfsprogs to the compute resource and backup server installer/updater. | |
INSTALLER-247 | Improvement | Added libguestfs for static backup server under CentOS 6.x and 7.x (x86_64 only). | |
INSTALLER-232 | Improvement | Added functionality to delete iptables rules for Xen/KVM VS when it goes offline. | |
INSTALLER-230 | Improvement | Updated ntfs tools version for compute resources and backup servers. | |
INSTALLER-209 | Improvement | Adjusted statistics scripts to use libvirt as data source for CentOS7 Xen static compute resources. | |
INSTALLER-194 | Improvement | Provided Libvirt v. 2.x for Xen compute resources on CentOS 7. | |
INSTALLER-264 | Improvement | Added support of the Xen 4.9 kernel version for Static compute resources. | |
INFRA-336 | Improvement | Integrated vCenter event processing into OnApp Engine. | |
CORE-10458 | Improvement | Removed ability to track statuses for PurgeAll transactions. | |
CORE-10369 | Improvement | Added support of ip_id parameter for /virtual_machines/accelerator_presence. | |
CORE-10365 | Improvement | Removed support of Debian distro for vCenter. | |
CORE-10343 | Improvement | Added ability to assign a range of IPs to a user. | |
CORE-10228 | Improvement | Improved removal logic of VS that resides on Integrated Storage data store to increase performance of the large vDisk removal. | |
CORE-10163 | Improvement | Added ability to use "default" cache policy instead of "mq" one. | |
CORE-10161 | Improvement | Improved resource difference tables for log items related to the recompose vApp transaction. | |
CORE-10140 | Improvement | Improved resource diffs tables for log items related to Edge/Storage servers and Accelerators. | |
CORE-9997 | Improvement | Improved 'File URL' tab at Upload OVA template page. | |
CORE-9926 | Improvement | Added ability to change the owner of a vCenter virtual server. | |
CORE-9888 | Improvement | Improved attach/detach disk operations when timeout error occurred. | |
CORE-9640 | Improvement | Added slider which enables assertion decryption during adding new IdP for SAML authentication. | |
CORE-9628 | Improvement | Added the limitation that the ‘Add to Federation’ option appears only for zones of the ‘virtual’ type. | |
CORE-9601 | Improvement | Added ability to upload OVA templates for vCenter with a specified operating system. | |
CORE-9516 | Improvement | Added the seller’s transaction ID field to the log item details page. | |
CORE-9504 | Improvement | Added ability to remove all vCenter compute resources or a particular vCenter compute resource from OnApp. | |
CORE-9281 | Improvement | Added an infobox to the upload media to catalog screen. | |
CORE-9189 | Improvement | Removed the VMRC console type for vCenter virtual servers. | |
CORE-9003 | Improvement | Removed the Failover, Backup, CloudBoot and Gateway Servers options from the vCenter compute resource details page. | |
CORE-8986 | Improvement | Added ‘Manage services in vCD UI’ permission which controls whether users have access to the Services tab that links to vCD UI at the Edge Gateway details page. | |
CORE-8937 | Improvement | Implemented a mechanism to track when certain changes have been made in vCenter and update OnApp with these changes. | |
CORE-8935 | Improvement | Improved vCenter stats collection process. | |
CORE-8925 | Improvement | Added ability for customers to add their own java script files. | |
CORE-8880 | Improvement | Changed API requests for virtual server migration. | |
CORE-8781 | Improvement | Moved CDN Resource Stream Statistics to CDN Reporting scope. | |
CORE-8569 | Improvement | Added ability to assign multiple IP addresses to a user. | |
CORE-8438 | Improvement | Added slider, which enables hot migration for virtual servers built from ISO,OVA and regular templates. | |
CORE-8214 | Improvement | Added ability to edit the name and description of catalogs that are not marked as 'Published' in OnApp. | |
CORE-8213 | Improvement | Added the Status column to the vApps list page. | |
CORE-8212 | Improvement | Implemented all power state actions for vCloud Director VSs. | |
CORE-7689 | Improvement | Added ability to import vApps and VSs owned by the ‘System’ user in vCD into OnApp. | |
CORE-7688 | Improvement | Added ability to change the owner of a vApp in OnApp. | |
CLOUDBOOT-119 | Improvement | Added ability for onapp-store-install.sh to customize the Default ramdisk (centos7/ramdisk-default). | |
CLOUDBOOT-118 | Improvement | Added XFS support (xfsprogs) to the CloudBoot images for XEN and KVM compute resource and backup server on CentOS6. | |
CLOUDBOOT-117 | Improvement | Updateв glibc packages for CentOS6 KVM and Xen ramdisks to address the CVE-2017-1000366 fix. | |
CLOUDBOOT-116 | Improvement | Updates CentOS6 KVM kernel to address the CVE-2017-1000364 fix. | |
CLOUDBOOT-111 | Improvement | Added a workaround into the CentOS6 Xen and KVM ramdisks' init to load correct module for Chelsio Communications Inc ethernet controller. | |
CLOUDBOOT-107 | Improvement | Updated ntfs-filesystem and tools version for CloudBoot ramdisks. | |
STORAGE-1825 | Improvement | Upgraded back-end kernel to 3.18.25-18.el6.x86_64. | |
STORAGE-2052 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Onappstorebond interface was not created on CloudBoot CentOS7 KVM images. | 5.3-5.4 |
INFRA-321 | Fix | Fixed the issue when transaction remained in "Pending" "scheduled" state forever due to DB-level race-condition. | 5.0-5.4 |
INFRA-303 | Fix | Fixed the issue when transaction became 'Pending’ after automatic cancellation. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-10346 | Fix | Fixed the issue when IP addresses which are in use were displayed on the network overview page. | 5.4 |
CORE-10307 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCD users could not create vCD users without the ‘Any action on users’ permission as there were no roles for selection. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-10242 | Fix | Fixed an incorrect alignment of elements at 'Language Phrases' page. | 5.4 |
CORE-10192 | Fix | Fixed the issue when subscribed data stores, which did not support motion, did not get identifier. | 5.2-5.4 |
CORE-10158 | Fix | Fixed displaying of templates in VS creation wizard. | 5.4 |
CORE-10152 | Fix | Fixed the issue when VMware level 1 statistics attempted to update VS statuses if the compute resource was down. | 5.4 |
CORE-10050 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the import of vCD edge gateways the interface of which did not contain the ‘ip_ranges’ field failed on vCD version 8.x. | 5.4 |
CORE-10002 | Fix | Fixed the issue when an autoscaling load balancer was created with one IP address instead of two. | 5.4 |
CORE-9937 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the last IP address could be removed from the Accelerator preventing it to accelerate VSs. | 5.4 |
CORE-9916 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCenter credentials were not deleted from OnApp after vCenter was removed from vCloud Director. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9912 | Fix | Fixed the issue when autoscale parameter for_minutes was not stored in database. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9911 | Fix | Fixed UI issue with 'Actions' column for nodes at Load Balancer overview page. | 4.0-5.4 |
CORE-9907 | Fix | Fixed the issue when 'RebuildNetwork' transaction failed for not accelerated VSs when accelerator existed without IP address. | 5.4 |
CORE-9896 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCD re-sync failed if there were two or more vCD compute resources in OnApp are at least one of them was offline. | 5.2-5.4 |
CORE-9885 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vApp deployment would fail if the vApp contains a VS without network interfaces. | 5.4 |
CORE-9883 | Fix | Fixed the issue when increasing/decreasing the number of CPU cores or amount of RAM of a VS imported from vCenter caused the 500 Error. | 5.4 |
CORE-9855 | Fix | Improved template's label visibility in VS creation wizard. | 5.4 |
CORE-9828 | Fix | Removed ability to boot from ISO VSs, which were built from OVA template with operating system 'other'. | 5.4 |
CORE-9824 | Fix | Fixed the issue when VS, built from OVA template with operating system 'other', could not be rebooted in recovery. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9806 | Fix | Fixed the issue when pagination buttons were not working at the 'Location group' page. | 5.4 |
CORE-9800 | Fix | Fixed the issue with translation missing for container server failover. | 5.4 |
CORE-9783 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the vApp owner was not changed in OnApp after the vApp owner has been changed in vCD, in case the new vApp owner did not have enough resources to own the vApp according to the OnApp billing plan. | 5.4 |
CORE-9775 | Fix | Fixed the issue when a user could not use the amount of IP addresses available in their billing plan. | 5.4 |
CORE-9773 | Fix | Fixed the issue when 'Build disk' transaction failed for VSs, built from OVA because of "Volume group has insufficient free space" error. | 5.2-5.4 |
CORE-9742 | Fix | Removed redundant column at the end of the compute resources table. | 5.4 |
CORE-9714 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the rake task vcloud:resync_clean failed and did not remove some objects if there was an object in DB the relations of which could not be removed. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9713 | Fix | Fixed the issue when an OnApp user who belongs to a vCD user group could not log into OnApp using SAML authentication. | 5.4 |
CORE-9712 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was possible to create a Storage/Edge server or Accelerator without an IP address via API. | 5.4 |
CORE-9708 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to allocate a new IP address to an Accelerator, Storage/Edge server after previously removing its network interface. | 5.4 |
CORE-9677 | Fix | Removed the unnecessary fstab update transaction from the the vCenter VS disk resize process. | 5.4 |
CORE-9667 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the filter for network interface statistics redirected to the list of network interfaces. | 5.4 |
CORE-9581 | Fix | Fixed the broken instance package prices at VS creation wizard. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-9565 | Fix | Fixed the issue when zones of the VPC type could be added to Federation, though they should not. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9551 | Fix | Fixed the error which occurred when SAML provider metadata was opened without logged in user. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-9538 | Fix | Fixed the issue when SAML certificate could not be uploaded to the Control Panel. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9438 | Fix | Fixed the issue when a load balancer would be deleted without the confirmation window appearing. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9380 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the ‘Create network zone’ button appeared in UI for users who did not have the permission to create network zones. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9379 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the ‘Network Zones’ link appeared in UI for users who had the ‘See details of any network zone’ permission but did not have the ‘See list of all network zones’ permission. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9378 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the ‘Network Zones’ link did not appear in UI for users who had the ‘See list of all network zones’ permission but did not have the ‘See details of any network zone’ permission. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-9304 | Fix | Fixed the issue when chart filters did not work when at least one chart was hidden at the Control Panel dashboard. | 5.2-5.4 |
CORE-9165 | Fix | Added ability to check if all nodes have the exact amount of space needed for rebalance. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-9087 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vApp deployment failed because template disk used LSI Logic SAS controller. | 5.4 |
CORE-8950 | Fix | Added ‘Access to vCD UI’ permission which controls whether users can see the link to vCD UI in the VS tools menu. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-8890 | Fix | Fixed the issue when CDN Server/Load could not be created, if user had some limits in template store in billing plan. | 4.0-5.4 |
CORE-8824 | Fix | Fixed the issue when description of instance packages was not scalable during VS creation. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-8805 | Fix | Fixed the issue when during org network creation routed or isolated network type could be selected for a resource pool that does not have a network pool. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-8703 | Fix | Fixed the issue when IP addresses that were removed from vCenter VSs in OnApp were not removed on the vCenter side. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-8701 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Cloudboot upgrade broke custom config of /etc/exports file. | 5.1-5.4 |
CORE-8673 | Fix | Fixed the issue when no logs about the cause of user import failure were provided when attempting to import vCD users that do not have an email specified. | 5.3-5.4 |
CORE-8653 | Fix | Fixed the issue when an irrelevant alert about default mailer setting would appear in UI. | 5.2-5.4 |
CORE-8545 | Fix | Fixed the issue an autoscaling load balancer did not pick up nodes added automatically by autoscaling. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-8482 | Fix | Fixed the issue when orchestration deployment was not possible if one of its resources had the customizable parameter as disabled but the visible parameter as enabled. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-8404 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vApps could be skipped during import or resync, in case the vApp owner did not have enough resources to own the vApp according to the OnApp billing plan. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-7919 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was not possible to delete a vApp that had a 'deployed' status in vCD and all VSs in which were powered off. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-7916 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the orchestration model deployment page showed different default values for storage policies than those which were set in the orchestration model. | 5.1-5.4 |
CORE-7737 | Fix | Fixed the issue when a vApp with the status ‘Resolved’ could not be deleted through OnApp UI. | 5.0-5.4 |
CORE-7580 | Fix | Fixed the UI typo at Compute resource overview page. | 4.3-5.4 |
CORE-7386 | Fix | Fixed the issue when compute resource selection algorithm 'Take HV with maximum free RAM (Sparse)' did not work correctly during VS creation within specific compute zone. | 4.3-5.4 |
CORE-7352 | Fix | Fixed the issue when restrictions were not applied to the list of users at the 'change VS owner' page. | 4.3-5.4 |
CORE-5795 | Fix | Prohibited attaching Integrated Storage data store to a compute zone, if the data store was created in another compute zone. | 4.0-5.4 |
CORE-1517 | Fix | Fixed the issue when second NIC iptables rules were missing after reboot from inside (not the UI). | 3.0.8-5.4 |
CORE-1397 | Fix | Fixed the issue with missing German and Spanish locales. | 3.0.6-5.4 |
CLOUDBOOT-128 | Fix | Added cron task, which helps to create VS's disks on backup server with less load. | 5.4 |
CLOUDBOOT-115 | Fix | Improved CentOS6 Xen ramdisk to avoid warning that xend/xm is deprecated. | 5.4 |
CLOUDBOOT-112 | Fix | Fixed an issue when storageAPI.service was marked as failed on CentOS7 KVM ramdisks. | 5.3-5.4 |
CLOUDBOOT-105 | Fix | Added SSHFS and NTFS support for CentOS7 KVM ramdisk. | 5.4 |