6.8 Stable Release Notes
12 April 2023
We are happy to introduce OnApp 6.8 Stable. This document lists features, improvements, and fixes implemented for all available OnApp components within the 6.8 Stable.
Before You Upgrade
You can update to OnApp 6.8 Stable from OnApp 6.7. For details, refer to the Upgrade Guide.
To test the upgrade, you may first simulate the upgrade process in the test environment. For the instructions, refer to the Configuring Control Panel Environment for Simulation Purposes page.
Highlights
Here you can find the key features that we deliver as a part of OnApp 6.8. You can also check other features and improvements and see the list of issues that were fixed in OnApp 6.8.
Updated UI
We updated the user interface with the new look and feel for a number of pages. This version of the user interface is aimed to improve the user experience.
User Service Add-on
Added new functionality, User Service Add-on, which provides the ability to add services to a user that can be run in the whole Control Panel.
Live migration improvements
Improved Live Migration with flexible configuration of the auto-converge parameters and max limits for hot migration transactions.
Configurable live migration auto-converge
Updated Virtual Servers with new Auto-Converge functionality for Hot Migration, which allows to throttle CPU and reduce the frequency of VM operations.
CPU Topology
Added CPU Topology, including the number of cores per socket, to vCenter virtual server, along with the ability to edit it.
Virtual Servers
Added new functionality to virtual servers, including the ability to view and manage virtual servers shared via vApp, set the Virtual Servers page or the Service Catalog page as the main page, and access console at the Virtual Servers page.
Features & Improvements
Type | Key | Release Notes |
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OnApp Cloud | ||
PB-85 | Added new functionality, User Service Add-on, which provides the ability to add services to a user that can be run in the whole Control Panel. | |
PB-128 | Improved Live Migration with flexible configuration of the autoconverge parameters and max limits for hot migration transactions. | |
PB-129 | Updated Virtual Servers with new Auto-Converge functionality for Hot Migration, which allows to throttle CPU and reduce the frequency of VM operations. | |
TA-538 | You can now configure the size of the snapshot taken to back up a virtual disk. | |
TA-706 | Optimized the service rake task db:cleanup:log_items; added the production_db_cleanup_log_items.log file with the details on the start and end time of the rake task and the number of log items, which provides the possibility of tracking the execution of the task. | |
TA-844 | You can now click the Usage Statistics tab and select the appropriate option at the user details page to view user statistics, virtual server statistics, and service add-on statistics. | |
TA-967 | At the Edit Service Add-ons page, in the events table, added the Run as option showing the user type that defines the user's privilege level applied to their recipe scripts. | |
TA-983 | Added the Create New Group button at the Service Add-on Store page. | |
TA-1058 | Added the Create New Service Add-on button at the List Service Add-ons page. | |
TA-1065 | Added the Create New Recipe button at the Create Recipes page. | |
TA-1067 | Added the Create New Recipe Group button at the Recipe Groups page. | |
TA-1069 | Added the Create New Template Group button at the Template Store page. | |
TA-1070 | Added the Create New My Template Group button at the My Template Groups page. | |
UIUX-15 | Updated UI at the Blacklist Domain Domains page. | |
UIUX-16 | Updated UI at the Purge page. | |
UIUX-25 | Updated UI at the Virtual Routers page. | |
UIUX-26 | Updated UI at the NSX-V Edge Gateways, Edit NSX-V Edge Gateway, Edit NSX-V Edge Gateway External Networks, Edit NSX-V Edge Gateway Default Gateway, Edit NSX-V Edge Gateway IP Settings, Edit NSX-V Edge Gateway Rate Limits, NSX-T Edge Gateways, and Edit NSX-T Edge Gateway pages. | |
UIUX-30 | Updated UI at the Template Store page. | |
UIUX-33 | Updated UI at the Service Add-on Store page. | |
UIUX-35 | Updated UI at the Recipe Groups page. | |
UIUX-52 | Updated UI at the Locales and Locale pages. | |
UIUX-131 | Updated UI at the Virtual Router IPnet page. | |
UIUX-159 | Updated UI at the Catalogs, Catalog, Edit Catalog, and New Catalog pages. | |
UIUX-160 | Updated UI at the vApps, vApp, Edit vApp, Starting and Stopping Virtual Servers, Create vApp Network, and Add vApp to Catalog pages. | |
UIUX-161 | Updated UI at the vCloud Resource Pools, vCloud Resource Pool, and Provider Resource Pools pages. | |
UIUX-162 | Updated UI at the Orchestration Models, Orchestration Model, Orchestration Model Edit, and Orchestration Model New pages. | |
UIUX-163 | Updated UI at the Organizations, Organization, and Add New Organization pages. | |
UIUX-164 | Updated UI at the CDN SSL Management, SSL Certificate, Edit SSL Certificate, and Add New SSL Certificate pages. | |
UIUX-165 | Updated UI at the Operator Dashboard page. | |
UIUX-166 | Updated UI at the Compute Zones, Add New Compute Resource, Compute Resource, Setting for This Compute Resource, Assets, Add New Compute Zone, and Edit Compute Zone pages. | |
UIUX-167 | Updated UI at the Restrictions Sets, Restrictions Set, Edit Restrictions Set, and Create New Restrictions Set pages. | |
UIUX-168 | Updated UI at the Roles, What Can This Role Do?, Edit Role, Create New Role, Set Approvals, and Role Templates pages. | |
UIUX-169 | Updated UI at the User Groups, Edit User Group, Add a New User Group, User Group Additional Fields, Edit User Group Additional Field, and Add New User Group Additional Field pages and the page that displays user group details. | |
UIUX-170 | Updated UI at the Buckets, Access Controls, Rate Cards, Edit Bucket Details, and Add New Bucket pages. | |
UIUX-171 | Updated UI at the Payments for Users page. | |
UIUX-172 | Updated UI at the Instance Packages page. | |
UIUX-179 | Updated UI at the Resolvers, Edit Resolver, and Add New Resolver pages. | |
UIUX-180 | Updated UI at the Backup Resources, Backup Resource, Backup Servers, Backups, Hardware Info, Edit Backup Server, Add New Backup Server, Backup Server Zones, Backup Server Zone Details, Edit Backup Server Zone, Add New Backup Server Zone, Auto-Backup Presets, VS Auto-Backup Presets Details, Edit Auto-Backup Presets, Schedules, and Edit Schedule pages. | |
UIUX-181 | Updated UI at the Data Stores, Data Store Details, Edit Data Store, Disks, Data Store Zones, Edit Data Store Zone, Add New Data Store Zone, and IO Limits pages. | |
UIUX-182 | Updated UI at the SAML ID Providers page. | |
UIUX-183 | Updated UI at the Hardware Info page. | |
UIUX-184 | Updated UI at the Licensing page. | |
UIUX-185 | Updated UI at the Application Configuration page. | |
UIUX-186 | Updated UI at the System Currencies page. | |
UIUX-188 | Updated UI at the Approvals page. | |
UIUX-191 | Updated UI at the SSH-Keys, SSH-Key, Edit SSH-Key, and Create SSH-Key pages. | |
VMWARE-787 | Added the ability to copy the root password of a virtual server to the clipboard with in the Login box at the Virtual Server Details page. | |
VMWARE-870 | You can now set the Virtual Servers page or the Service Catalog page as the main page in the Theme configuration. | |
VMWARE-901 | You can now access console at the Virtual Servers page from the list of VSs. | |
VMWARE-1025 | Now, you can view the status of virtual service add-ons or system service add-ons assigned to a virtual server at the Service Add-ons page. | |
VMWARE-1091 | Now, you can force remove virtual server service add-ons and system service add-ons assigned to a virtual server if you are an owner of the virtual server or granted the Administrator role or the vCloud Organization Administrator role. | |
vCenter and vCloud | ||
PB-129 | Updated Virtual Servers with new Auto-Converge functionality for Hot Migration, which allows to throttle CPU and reduce the frequency of VM operations. | |
VMWARE-217 | Added CPU Topology, including the number of cores per socket, to vCenter virtual server. | |
VMWARE-553 | Added the ability to change label, hostname, and password when cloning vCenter virtual servers. | |
VMWARE-555 | Now, the correct number of RAM is shown when creating VS in the vCenter. | |
VMWARE-677 | Added the ability to view and manage virtual servers shared via vApp. | |
VMWARE-937 | Added the ability to edit CPU Topology to vCenter virtual server. | |
VMWARE-947 | Now, only the correct type of disk migration, Hot Storage Migration, is specified in the Type box when migrating vCenter virtual server disks. | |
INSTALLER-589 | Updated the Gem passenger to the 6.0.14 version. | |
INSTALLER-590 | Now the | |
INSTALLER-591 | Enhanced the Redis installer for the Control Panel functionality. | |
CloudBoot | ||
CLOUDBOOT-804 | Updated the following components for CentOS7 KVM RAMDisk:
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CLOUDBOOT-805 | Updated kernel version to 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64 for CentOS7 default RAMdisk. | |
CLOUDBOOT-809 | Included onappstore-6.7-9602-master.x86_64.rpm in all RAMDisks and fixed controller indexing for diskhotplug operations. |
Fixes
Type | Key | Release Notes | Affected Versions |
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INSTALLER-586 | When running the | 6.5 - 6.7 | |
SUPPORT-3588 | The resources must not be placed into the folders on the vCenter side for proper synchronization with the Control Panel. | 6.0 - 6.7 | |
TA-469 | An incorrect error message appeared when prefetching CDN resource content with an empty path via API. | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
TA-554 | The monthly price for service add-ons was not included in the Total cost with discount box at the User Information page and was not available at the Usage Statistics page. | 5.6 - 6.7 | |
TA-575 | A Windows-based virtual server built on the local data store could not be restored from backups because the backup files were searched for on the compute resource and not on the backup server. | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
TA-598 | A virtual server failed to start from ISO if the disk was assigned from a different virtual server. | 6.2 - 6.7 | |
TA-784 | You could not cancel a running transaction if the task PID was not found on the server. | 6.6. - 6.7 | |
TA-787 | The RestoreBackup transaction failed for a FreeBSD-based virtual server. | 6.7 | |
TA-790 | The db:increase_datetime_precision rake task failed when the created_at column of the DB table had a current_timestamp default. | 6.3 - 6.7 | |
TA-813 | If you specified the same value both in the Network Address and Network Gateway boxes when configuring an appliance network on the Infrastructure Wizard menu, the system saved the network address and network gateway and did not show you the validation message. | 6.7 | |
TA-814 | At the User Information page, one of the column headers of the Prices table, Backups, was named incorrectly. | 6.6 Edge 3 - 6.7 | |
TA-817 | If the limit of digits in the Monthly price box was exceeded when creating a new bucket on the Bucket & User Wizard menu, a 500 Internal Server Error appeared instead of a validation message. | 6.7 | |
TA-819 | You could create two identical roles with the same label after clicking the Save button several times when adding a new role. | 6.7 | |
TA-820 | You could create multiple identical payments after clicking the Save button several times when adding a new payment. | 6.7 | |
TA-821 | When creating an instance package and clicking the Save button several times, multiple identical instance packages with the same label were created. | 6.7 | |
TA-830 | The label of a bucket containing more than 100 characters did not fit in the label box when comparing two buckets on the Bucket & User Wizard menu. | 6.7 | |
TA-861 | If the Acronis backup plugin was not installed, a 500 Internal Server Error appeared instead of the following message after updating Control Panel to a newer version: | 6.5 - 6.7 | |
TA-877 | The installation of the system apps, such as PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1, failed for an application server. | 6.7 | |
TA-945 | You could delete a service add-on group that contained purchased service add-ons or unassign purchased service add-ons from a service add-on group. | 6.0 - 6.7 | |
TA-946 | The billing data was still applicable in the database after unassigning a service add-on from the service add-on group added to the rate card or after removing a service add-on group added to the rate card. | 6.0 - 6.7 | |
UIUX-101 | At the Virtual Server Details page, the status box that appears after scheduling transactions, such as editing, building, rebuilding a virtual server, etc., was displayed incorrectly. | 6.5 Edge 5 - 6.7 | |
UIUX-103 | At the Virtual Server Details page, either redundant space appeared or not all the tabs fit in the tab bar. | 6.5 Edge 5 - 6.7 | |
UIUX-117 | At the Application Configuration page, on the Interface tab, an empty box appeared in the Dashboard Stats list. | 6.6 Edge 1 - 6.7 | |
UIUX-190 | Not all the tabs at the CDN Resource Details page fit in the tab bar. | 6.7 | |
UIUX-192 | At the add-ons step of the virtual server creation wizard, the layout of the recipe details dialog was displayed incorrectly. | 6.7 | |
UIUX-195 | At the Networks page, on the Shared tab, the Add New Network button was incorrectly displayed under the table. | 6.7 | |
UIUX-229 | Header and Footer were not shown properly at the Approvals page. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-164 | When changing the label of the existing resource pool to match the label of the newly created resource pool, a resource pool with a duplicate label was updated. | 6.4 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-171 | When entering the label of the existing resource pool during the creation of a New Resource Pool, a resource pool with a duplicate label was created. | 6.4 -6.7 | |
VMWARE-458 | Firewall and NAT rules for the NSX-V edge gateway created by OrgAdmin are not available by default. Edge gateway has to be added to the bucket to enable the services. | 6.5 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-555 | You could have faced an issue when your free RAM number was not the same on the OnApp and VCD sides. | 6.2 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-719 | Empty tooltips appeared when hovering over an instance without a description at the Service Add-on Store, List Service Add-ons, Recipe Groups, and Assigned Recipes pages and when pointing to the icon of an OVA without the specified operating system at the All OVAs page. | 6.3 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-843 | CP Dashboard failed to pick up a local time zone. | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-909 | The incorrect amount of monthly pricing was displayed at the Assign Service Add-on and Virtual Server Details pages. | 6.5 Edge 2 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-932 | The vCenter template parameter min_memory_size was not synchronized in CP if changed on vCenter. | 6.5 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-946 | A redundant pop-up window with the following message appeared at the Assign IP Address page when adding a new IP address to a vCenter non-Windows-based VS: | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-960 | Having the Read all Service Add-ons permission on and the Read any Virtual Server permission off you could view other users' virtual servers to which a service add-on was applied instead of seeing only your virtual servers with that service add-on. | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-997 | You could delete a recipe if it was attached to a service add-on Run Recipe action event and the service add-on was assigned to a virtual server, template, or was bought. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1009 | The ConfigureOperatingSystem transaction failed for a vCenter virtual server built on an Ubuntu template. | 6.6 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1020 | After importing a vCenter virtual server to Control Panel and resetting the root password, logging in via console to the virtual server failed. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1075 | The Services tab was missing on the page displaying the details of an NSX-V edge gateway. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1077 | An incorrect error message appeared after saving an NSX-V IPSec VPN service with a wrong value specified when updating. | 6.3 - 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1083 | After refreshing the NAT Service page, a new NAT rule added to an NSX-V edge gateway disappeared from the list of edge gateways. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1086 | When logging in to Control Panel via SSH and executing tail -f /onapp/interface/log/production_nsx.log, an error occurred in the production_nsx.log file. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1087 | When the same non-default bucket was set for User group and User and the System Owner was imported from vCD, creating a network for the imported System Owner failed. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1227 (SUPPORT-3593) | After clicking Applied to VS button on Service Add-ons page for the Service Add-ons assigned to vApp templates, an internal server error was displayed. | 6.7 | |
VMWARE-1228 (SUPPORT-3589) | VCD VPN Sites were not showing in OnApp when importing the IPSEC VPN configuration. | 6.7 |