5.8 Release Notes
- OnApp 5.8 was released on May 10, 2018.
- OnApp version 5.8 is an edge release which is not designed to be installed in production environments.
- OnApp 5.8 provides support for vCloud Director 9.1.
- You can update to OnApp 5.8 only from the 5.7 version.
- If you use custom languages on your CP, after the upgrade to 5.8, please check the i18n Customization menu to submit translations for new UI labels, texts, and messages that will be available in the Missing translations tab.
- If you have KVM compute resources that are based on CentOS 7, please do not enable huge pages in your cloud. If this option is already enabled, please disable it before the upgrade to OnApp 5.8.
The following table lists all the features, improvements, and fixes included in the OnApp 5.8 release for all components:
Key | Type | Release Notes | Affects Version/s |
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CORE-10197 | Feature | Implemented SDN Controller and VXLAN Management functionality to enable building network infrastructure with OnApp and remote data centers.
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CORE-10184 | Feature | Implemented Backup Plugin System that enables to integrate OnApp with a third-party service for backup management.
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CORE-10201 | Feature | Implemented hot storage migration functionality for virtual servers and virtual server disks.
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CORE-11652 | Feature | Added the mass actions on VS: the possibility to simultaneously power on/off all virtual servers that run on the same compute resource. | |
CORE-11575 | Feature | Implemented possibility to set start and stop options for virtual servers included into vCloud Director vApps. | |
CORE-11462 | Feature | Implemented migration from Google Maps to Leaflet Maps during Virtual Server creation process. | |
CORE-8988 | Feature | Added possibility to specify the monthly CDN bandwidth limit for a user. The maximum limit is set in Access Control of the bucket. | |
CORE-11490 | Feature | Added possibility to manage an advanced XML configuration for virtual servers. | |
CORE-8987 | Feature | Added a list of CDN edge server IP ranges that are automatically updated to include relevant IP addresses that customers can add to firewall rules on their origin side. | |
CORE-11777 | Feature | Added support of CentOS 7 Xen as an option during CloudBoot compute resources creation process. | |
CORE-7189 | Feature | Implemented CentOS 6 as a default template version for Baremetal CloudBoot compute resources provisioning. | |
CLOUDBOOT-248 | Feature | Implemented Kdump feature to create and collect kernel crash dumps on the CloudBoot compute resources. | |
CLOUDBOOT-123 | Feature | Implemented CentOS 7 Xen for CloudBoot compute resources and Integrated Storage. | |
CORE-11485 | Improvement | Improved the CPU topology configuration process and added the ability to edit the CPU topology for VSs. Removed the CPU threads field. | |
INSTALLER-338 | Improvement | Implemented the vcenter:checker rake task to be run during an upgrade from OnApp 5.7 to 5.8 to validate vCenter network configuration. Before upgrading to OnApp 5.8, make sure that you meet requirements to vCenter networks, network zones and compute resources. Otherwise, the upgrade will not be performed if any of the network issues are detected by the vcenter:checker rake task. | |
INSTALLER-336 | Improvement | Rebuilt the mod_proxy_wstunnel_wmks.so module for CentOS 7 to optimize the triggering of webhooks. | |
INSTALLER-333 | Improvement | Added ability to report KVM/QEMU and libvirt versions with SNMP statistics. | |
INSTALLER-331 | Improvement | Added ability to skip disabling iptables during installation or update. | |
INSTALLER-290 | Improvement | Switched Static CentOS 7 KVM compute resource into qemu-kvm-ev to implement the Live Storage Migration feature in OnApp. | |
STORAGE-2067 | Improvement | Added zombie snapshots to be displayed at Storage Health Check page. | |
CORE-11875 | Improvement | Reimplemented the logic for deactivating the wrong activated logical volumes to skip virtual servers that are locked during hot migration. | |
CORE-11602 | Improvement | Improved sorting of virtual servers by a label throughout the pagination at the Virtual Servers page. | |
CORE-11847 | Improvement | Added a query on the status of a recovery point during the VS restoring. | |
CORE-10846 | Improvement | Optimized the VS creation wizard: made templates list dependent on selected location and fixed the location select box. | |
CORE-11805 | Improvement | Improved the vCD IOPS statistics at CP > Dashboard to display the number of input and output requests in the In and Out boxes respectively, and not vice versa. | |
CORE-11772 | Improvement | Implemented the VMXNET 3 network adapter to be selected by default while creating network interfaces for vCloud Director virtual servers. | |
CORE-11771 | Improvement | Improved the vApp deployment procedure so that OnApp reconfigured the existing NIC instead of adding a new NIC to match vCloud process. | |
CORE-11743 | Improvement | Updated the Mixed status of a vApp to display the number of powered-on virtual servers and the total amount of VSs in the vApp. | |
CORE-11279 | Improvement | Added a possibility to migrate vCloud Director VS disks between data stores, using the hot (live) migration functionality. | |
CORE-11009 | Improvement | Added a possibility to set a custom timeout that will be applied for running vCD-related operations. | |
CORE-10835 | Improvement | Added possibility to manage vCloud firewalls at the Resource Pool page. | |
CORE-9835 | Improvement | Added the missing IP_net layer to vCloud networking to suit the general OnApp networking framework. | |
CORE-8328 | Improvement | Added possibility to select an adapter type while creating network interfaces for vCloud Director virtual servers. | |
CORE-7679 | Improvement | Added possibility to shutdown vCloud Guest OS gracefully after the button "Gracefully shutdown" is pressed. | |
CORE-6604 | Improvement | Added possibility to edit the edge gateway name and network default names when deploying vCD orchestration models. | |
CORE-11904 | Improvement | Added the vcenter:checker rake task to validate vCenter network configuration during an upgrade from OnApp 5.7 to 5.8. | |
CORE-11480 | Improvement | Improved network management for vCenter by adding the network, network zone and compute resource restrictions. | |
CORE-11363 | Improvement | Improved VS naming for vCenter by removing OnApp identifier from the label. | |
CORE-12095 | Improvement | Improved credentials generation procedure to avoid fails when creating a virtual server from vCenter. | |
CORE-9004 | Improvement | Removed ability to collect stats from vCenter when the Collect Stats toggle is turned off on the Compute Resource Details page. | |
CORE-8936 | Improvement | Added possibility to import networks and data stores from all clusters in vCenter Datacenter to vCenter-based compute resource in OnApp. | |
CORE-11936 | Improvement | Updated error messages that appear as a result of the failed update action for CDN edge groups. | |
CORE-11837 | Improvement | Added breadcrumbs and infoboxes to the CDN Setup Wizard. | |
CORE-8759 | Improvement | Removed the View CDN Resource Bandwidth Statistics and View CDN Advanced Reporting API calls that are deprecated. | |
CORE-11767 | Improvement | Added display of Price per hour ratio to the User Group Details page. | |
CORE-11691 | Improvement | Added a price per hour for the amount of OVAs to the Billing Details section at the user account page. | |
CORE-11974 | Improvement | Updated URLs for the User and Company Payments pages with the payer_type parameter. | |
CORE-11725 | Improvement | Removed "company" and "user" identifiers from the API requests to manage user and company payments. | |
CORE-11621 | Improvement | Improved the "Clone bucket" API request to be redirected to the newly created bucket on UI side. | |
CORE-11786 | Improvement | Removed support of CentOS 5 Xen 3 as an option during CloudBoot compute resources creation process. | |
CORE-11692 | Improvement | Removed hot_migrate_alert notification template from the Notification Templates list. | |
CORE-11489 | Improvement | Added possibility to run a backup schedule with the failed status once again by selecting the Enabled option during the schedule edit. | |
CORE-11263 | Improvement | Replaced SMART errors detection algorithm with Smartmontools utility program at Integrated Storage healthchecks page | |
CORE-10671 | Improvement | Added "Zombie Snapshots" Integrated Storage health check to detect snapshots that are not removed after backup deletion. | |
CORE-10618 | Improvement | Improved the calculation of free storage space on backup servers by taking into account the space that OVAs occupy. | |
CORE-11726 | Improvement | Improved clean install process for 5.8 by the implementation of more relevant rake tasks. | |
CORE-10082 | Improvement | Added validation on translations provided for a custom language via the i18n Customization menu in Control Panel. | |
CORE-9002 | Improvement | Improved the Compute Resource Details page view to display the missing fields such as Host, Server, and Release. | |
CLOUDBOOT-234 | Improvement | Added ability to report KVM/QEMU and libvirt versions with SNMP statistics. | |
CLOUDBOOT-202 | Improvement | Added the NTPSERVER kernel option to the onapp-store-install package for clock synchronization between the Control Panel server and CloudBoot compute resources. | |
CLOUDBOOT-143 | Improvement | Switched CloudBoot CentOS7 KVM ramdisk into qemu-kvm-ev to implement live storage migration. | |
CLOUDBOOT-121 | Improvement | Updated CentOS 6 Xen ramdisk kernel to address the CVE-2017-1000364 fix. | |
CORE-12097 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to save changes after editing the details of a vCloud Compute Resource. | 5.7 |
CORE-12031 | Fix | Removed support for Windows Vista OS from the OVAs display page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11980 | Fix | Fixed the issue when flash messages were displayed incorrectly when adding new records at DNS Zone Records display page. | 4.0-5.7 |
CORE-11970 | Fix | Fixed the issue when missing translation items appeared at the Locales page after 5.7 upgrades. | 5.7 |
CORE-11968 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the VSs could not be imported from vCenter into OnApp due to validation check errors. | 5.5 |
CORE-11932 | Fix | Fixed the issue when replication was set up incorrectly if VS had multiple disks. | 5.5 |
CORE-11923 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to resize VS on XEN compute resource if max memory limit was exceeded. | 5.5 |
CORE-11911 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to create any types of org networks except Direct type when logged as an Admin. | 5.7 |
CORE-11890 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was possible to log out only if WS-FED but not SAML protocol was used. | 5.6-5.7 |
CORE-11884 | Fix | Fixed the issue when there was a typo at the Firewall Service display page saying "Dafault Action" instead of "Default Action." | 5.7 |
CORE-11879 | Fix | Fixed the issue when "Acceleration" resource was absent in the supplier bucket resources list for federation virtual servers. | 5.7 |
CORE-11868 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the auto-backup creation led to a failure_count increase (if blocked by running/pending backup). | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11831 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the 500 Internal Server Error appeared when selecting the 'Add to catalog' option in vApps menu. | 5.7 |
CORE-11829 | Fix | Fixed the issue when No Method Error appeared when trying to assign IPv6 address to any user. | 5.5 |
CORE-11819 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the new infoboxes still displayed the old terminology which is 'billing plans' instead of 'buckets.' | 5.7 |
CORE-11818 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to delete a user from the Recipients Lists page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11806 | Fix | Fixed the issue when pagination buttons were missing on the CDN SSL certificates page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11804 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCloud stats were saved into Redis with incorrect elapsed_time. | 5.7 |
CORE-11795 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Federated compute resources were displayed at Hardware Info page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11793 | Fix | Fixed the issue when uplink network stats were displayed with incorrect values at Edge Gateways Details page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11744 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the discount was not displayed on the Monthly Bills page for a particular user or user group. | 5.7 |
CORE-11737 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the system notification event types could be deleted via API call. | 5.7 |
CORE-11736 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the system error appeared during allocation pool creation. | 5.7 |
CORE-11710 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the user was redirected to the wrong URL when trying to enter Advanced Edge Services page. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11709 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Currency and delimiter were missing on Monthly bills page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11686 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the "Event type" permission was not enabled after updating from Control Panel 5.5 to 5.7 version. | 5.7 |
CORE-11679 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the error message was displayed when trying to convert an OVA without the permission "Any action on OVAs." | 5.7 |
CORE-11674 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the converted OVA template not owned by the user became public while the public status option was not activated. | 5.7 |
CORE-11672 | Fix | Fixed the issue when selected radio button was displayed incorrectly while choosing the instance package on VS add/edit page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11663 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to reboot, destroy, cold migrate or startup a VS on several clouds installed from scratch. | 5.7 |
CORE-11661 | Fix | Fixed the issue when users were not allowed to convert an OVA template with the "Make public" option enabled in case they reached the OVA templates bucket limit. | 5.7 |
CORE-11654 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the timezone filter at Billing Statistics page displayed incorrect data. | 5.7 |
CORE-11636 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the error message appeared if trying to delete a user who has previously uploaded any OVAs. | 5.7 |
CORE-11627 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the error message with the incorrect text appeared if a user tried to view monthly bills statistics that did not belong to him. | 5.7 |
CORE-11616 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the 'Total amount' field was displayed incorrectly on the CDN resource billing page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11613 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the rake-task with migration table displayed Integer type instead of Big Integer type. | 5.7 |
CORE-11603 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the error message with the incorrect text appeared when the template distro RHEL was not included in the template's distros list. | 5.7 |
CORE-11597 | Fix | Fixed the issue when currency and the 'per GB' measurement were not displayed on CDN resources and monthly_bills pages. | 5.7 |
CORE-11593 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Create User payment API 5.5 request did not work in 5.7 version. | 5.7 |
CORE-11582 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the network zones were duplicated after the vCloud was cleaned from the Control Panel and imported back. | 5.7 |
CORE-11581 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to create a user during the vm:generate_hourly_stats rake task running. | 5.7 |
CORE-11577 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the fstab file was not rewritten after formatting additional VS disk to XFS file system. | 5.7 |
CORE-11544 | Fix | Fixed the issue when incorrect acceleration free amount was displayed on the User statistics page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11528 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the backward compatibility did not work for Clone Billing Plan API request. | 5.6-5.7 |
CORE-11519 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to create virtual servers on vCenter using instance packages. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11488 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to find a template on vCenter if it belonged to one data center and was deployed in another data center. | 5.5-5.6 |
CORE-11425 | Fix | Fixed the issue when limits for VCloud VS disk size were calculated incorrectly when deploying vApp. | 5.7 |
CORE-11394 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Gateway and DNS settings were missing on the Org networks details page when deploying Windows VS in vCD. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11382 | Fix | Fixed the issue when syntax error appeared during translation at Locales page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11366 | Fix | Fixed the issue when CPU Units control displayed greater values on Edit VS page than set in compute resources zone settings. | 5.6-5.7 |
CORE-11305 | Fix | Fixed the issue when boot from "Windows 10/2016" ISO failed on VS with lower versions of Windows. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11293 | Fix | Fixed the issue when users with restriction set 'Payments by User Group' could see all payments. | 5.5-5.6 |
CORE-11146 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the network usage data of first NIC in a vCloud VS was duplicated to other NICs of the same VS on the Network Interface Usage page. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-11112 | Fix | Removed support for Windows XP and 2003 OS from the OVAs display page. | 5.7 |
CORE-11031 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the Currency field was missing on the Edit bucket page. | 5.6-5.7 |
CORE-10946 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the incorrect text was displayed in the infobox on the Allocate new IP to VS page. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-10912 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the VS was not responding when building a Windows 2016/10 VS with CPU topology enabled. | 5.0-5.5 |
CORE-10746 | Fix | Fixed the issue when free used disk size was calculated as the sum of all storage profiles from the particular DataStoreZone in the billing plan. | 5.0-5.5 |
CORE-10447 | Fix | Fixed the issue when boot from "Windows 10/2016" ISO failed on VS with lower versions of Windows. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-10156 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the VPN tunnel was skipped during the edge gateway import from vCloud. | 5.5-5.7 |
CORE-9654 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the Resync function did not remove networks, datastores, and VSs that were removed from vCenter. | 5.4-5.7 |
CORE-9610 | Fix | Fixed the issue when country names were duplicated in the drop-down list at the location step of the VS wizard. | 5.3-5.7 |
CORE-9580 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the VS wizard confirmation step did not reflect the instance package parameters. | 5.0-5.7 |
CORE-9083 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the network adapter type was ignored when deploying a vApp from a vApp Template. | 5.0-5.3 |
CORE-8651 | Fix | Fixed the issue when VS summary specifications did not match selected Instance Package at the confirmation step of the VS creation. | 5.2-5.3 |
CORE-8630 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCloud Org Admin users could see the number of users assigned to a billing plan, though they should not have. | 5.2-5.7 |
CORE-8604 | Fix | Fixed the issue when vCloud Org Admin users had the 'See all payments' permission, though they should not have. | 5.2-5.7 |
CORE-7960 | Fix | Fixed the issue when orphaned backups appeared after changing owner with empty backups_action. | 5.2-5.7 |
CORE-3893 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to edit DNS Records in the DNS Zone. | 3.5-5.7 |
CORE-3758 | Fix | Fixed the issue when Compute Zone zone's name was missing at Content Balance Check page. | 3.3.2-5.7 |
CORE-3354 | Fix | Fixed the issue when it was impossible to delete TXT and MX records from Manage DNS Zone page without refreshing it. | 3.3.2-5.7 |
CORE-3157 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the ports quantity was displayed and calculated incorrectly on Alerts page. | 3.3.0-5.7 |
CLOUDBOOT-240 | Fix | Updated the drivers to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 8000 Series 10G Adapter (SFN8522) on CentOS 6 and 7 KVM ramdisks. | 5.5-5.7 |
CLOUDBOOT-238 | Fix | Installed the Brocade Fibre Channel HBA Firmware into Centos6 Xen ramdisk. | 5.0-5.7 |
CLOUDBOOT-224 | Fix | Fixed the issue when the URL used in the script for IP address was invalid. | 5.0-5.7 |