Virtuozzo OnApp 5.0 Release Notes
The following sections list all the features, improvements, and fixed included in Virtuozzo OnApp 5.0 release for all components:
Virtuozzo OnApp Changes
| Type | Summary | Affects Version/s |
|---|---|---|
| Feature | Introduced new tier-based model of federation selling and buying which allows sellers to specify the tier when publishing a zone, and buyers to choose between DEV, PRO or PRIVATE pricing when subscribing to a zone. | |
| Feature | Added billing for Pay-As-You-Go resource pools for Company billing plans. | |
| Feature | Added Database Management for Application Servers. | |
| Feature | Added new usage trends statistics to the Stats menu, which show the quick overview of your cloud infrastructure. | |
| Feature | Added Purge feature for accelerated Virtual Servers. Purge content tool allows instant removal of cache content for the accelerated virtual servers. | |
| Feature | Added dashboard charts with the statistics for smart server and baremetal server. | |
| Feature | Added ability to change currency code using the rake task. | |
| Feature | For convenience Federation menu is now located on the left side of the Control Panel dashboard. | |
| Feature | Possibility to alter pricing is reserved only to sellers of private zones | |
| Feature | CDN related menu is back for VSP customers! | |
| Feature | Federation buyers now can filter zones by their tier, geographic location, performance and special features available | |
| Feature | Changed behaviour of empty rate_limit input during VS creation. | |
| Improvement | The 'Purge' button is not displayed if acceleration is not enabled for the VS. | |
| Improvement | Statistics menu moved to the left part of Virtuozzo OnApp Control Panel. | |
| Improvement | Simplified zones labeling during the subscription process | |
| Improvement | Removed root user's ssh related data during ConfigureOperatingSystem. | |
| Improvement | Remove rake task to add autobackup permission for VS. | |
| Improvement | Optimized statistics speed after stats tables indexes investigation. | |
| Improvement | Now the email notification is disabled by default at Settings > System menu Email section. | |
| Improvement | Now Redis is used to lock LVM operations. | |
| Improvement | New selling wizard that enables to publish zone in one of the available tiers and indicate the your zone special features | |
| Improvement | Moved the "Report a Problem" box for federated VSs. | |
| Improvement | Modified Licensing Client to utilize Dashboard API. | |
| Improvement | Improved validation and pricing for CPU Quota and Memory Quota for PAYG resources. | |
| Improvement | Improved the cache flushing if dirty block count starts to increase. | |
| Improvement | Improved password field behaviour during VS creation. | |
| Improvement | Improved management of unstable php versions on application server. | |
| Improvement | Improved management of VApp statuses. | |
| Improvement | Improved Resource Pool statistics API. | |
| Improvement | Improved Control Panel dashboard cloud usage. | |
| Improvement | Improved CDN Marketplace Pricing reflection on Edge Group page. | |
| Improvement | Improved API response for Statistics. | |
| Improvement | Improved API response for User Group monthly billing to show the exact month for which the stats are returned. | |
| Improvement | Fixed the issue when user VS limits did not apply to federated virtual servers. | |
| Improvement | Created dependent select_box for editing ISO template. | |
| Improvement | Configuration of compute resource connection to RabbitMQ is automated. | |
| Improvement | Configuration improvement, which enables HTML5 VNC console for HA Clouds | |
| Improvement | Allowed possibility to add custom google map api key to google maps via on_app.yml file. | |
| Improvement | Added vRam hourly statistics calculation. | |
| Improvement | Added vCPU speed for Allocation pool in Company Plans and statistics. | |
| Improvement | Added used CPU, used memory and used disk space resources to company billing plans. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to set custom range in an API for dashboard statistics. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to add own CSS rules to Virtuozzo OnApp Control Panel. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility not to upgrade Xen packages for the compute resource. | |
| Improvement | Added permission for "Send password reminder" action. | |
| Improvement | Added overview of what is being built on last step of VS creation wizard. | |
| Improvement | Added hostname to the 'Sysadmin Tools' page. | |
| Improvement | Added helper with the explanation of "Bus Sub Type" when adding disk. | |
| Improvement | Added edge_hourly_stats for statistic archiving. | |
| Improvement | Added custom date range for charts at Control Panel Dashboard. | |
| Improvement | Added billing limits validation when creating/updating Resource Pool's data store. | |
| Improvement | Added acceleration-related permissions for VS ( Accelerate any Virtual Server/Accelerate own Virtual Servers ). | |
| Improvement | Added ability to sync information about tiers every time when a seller publishes a zone. | |
| Improvement | Added Snmptrap parameter in onapp-cp-installer. | |
| Improvement | Added Smart Servers and Bare Metal Servers statistics for dashboard graphs. | |
| Improvement | Added API request for getting interfaces attached to edge gateway. | |
| Improvement | Added API for application server database management. | |
| Improvement | Added link from the VS disks view to the IS disk details page. | |
| Improvement | Removed unused gems on Control Panel upgrade. | |
| Improvement | Moved Control Panel's database dumping from Control Panel's rpm into installer. | |
| Improvement | Moved Redis Server management from Control Panel's rpm into installer. | |
| Improvement | Added Virtuozzo OnApp Control Panel licensing unit. | |
| Improvement | CentOS 5.x Ruby packages compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.1e. | |
| Improvement | Modification of /etc/httpd/conf.d/onapp.conf, which allows websocket for HA deployment. | |
| Improvement | Erlang upgraded to 18.3 version. | |
| Improvement | Tgtd service is not monitored on Static compute resource. | |
| Improvement | Improved Virtuozzo OnApp reliability and Virtuozzo OnApp engine. | |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when user in Federation could not see and restore own auto-backups due to the problem that the backups synced from seller were not assigned the user id. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when user in Federation could not see and restore own auto-backups due to the problem that the backups synced from seller were not assigned the user id. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when VNC proxy didn't work if MySQL server was started on a non-standard port. | 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the pagination issue when it was impossible to assign more than 10 compute resources to a compute zone. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Permissions fixes: to add a storage policy (data store) to a resource pool, a user now needs an Update any Resource Pool permission. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Added possibility to choose a default network pool when creating a resource pool in Virtuozzo OnApp Control Panel. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when take backup transaction for SolidFire disk failed and its mountpoint directory weren't deleted. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when after editing a swap disk that had been manually added (built or attached), the disk was removed from fstab and wasn't available anymore. The issue was reproduced for SolidFire and LVM data stores. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when Virtual Servers built on vCloud compute resources were shut down after increasing the disk size. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when under certain conditions the vCloud user group created from Virtuozzo OnApp got duplicated. This led to duplicated resource pools and general misconfiguration of vCloud org in OnApp. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when in multi-vCenter environment the stats have not been collected from one of vCenter instances. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Improved the switching between the master templates and custom resources/limits for network and datastore zones in user plans. Now when applying master templates, the custom limits, prices, and limit type are overriden by the template. | 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when Zabbix client failed to be instaleld on Fedora Linux 13. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Improved validation for external networks when creating a new Direct Org Network (Org Networks > New Org Network, Direct Network Type). Now the networks are also filtered based on limits in Company plan. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when the SSL certificates added in Virtuozzo OnApp Control Panel got replaced with the self-signed certificate after an update of the Virtuozzo OnApp CP. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when wrong interface was set for VS during hot migration if different NICs were attached to sompute resources. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when after reconfiguring communication interfaces at Control Panel Settings > High Availability > Clusters, the nodes are in maintenance mode instead of being online. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when the VNC console was not working if the High Availability and 'HTML5' were enabled. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when storage was set to 0 in Orchestration Model became unlimited in vCloud Director. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue with inserting media to vCloud Director VS. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the synchronization problem when deleting a media file from the catalog in vCloud Director was not updated in Virtuozzo OnApp CP. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the failing Insert and Eject Media for vCloud Director VSs. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when Virtuozzo OnApp scheduled more save_vm_billing_stats transactions than the actual number of VSs on the Control Panel if removing several VSs which are assigned to different users onapp. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when operating system was always showing as Linux on the edit ISO page. | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when it was impossible to remove the Shared option when editing Org Networks at vCloud > Org Networks menu. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when external network was not shown on vCloud > Org Networks > Edit Direct Org network page. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Updated the zabbix_agent shipped with OnApp. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when vCloud console did not show the correct size for Windows VSs. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed API for Sysadmin Tools page. | 3.4, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed Internal Server error that appeared when trying to create a resource pool via API with incorrect user group ID. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed internal server error on Resource Pool details page. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed validation for IOPS slider according to user plan limits on VS creation, Disk edit, and Disk creation pages. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when password became out of sync in vCloud Director after an admin had been editing a user profile in Virtuozzo OnApp and left the password blank. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the wrong currency code on Edit disk pop-up window when admin and user have different currencies. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when it was impossible to upload an ISO when the image extension was with capital ISO letters. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Added month parameter to Get user group monthly bills details API request. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when VS counter in the left navigation pane wasn't updated when a VS was deleted. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when It was possible to build a VS using the Load balancer/CDN Appliance/Application Server templates via API. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when import took too long for customers having a large shared catalog and a lot of organizations. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed moving Firewall Rules down | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the validation for vApp deployment according to limits in billing plans. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when long imports caused auth token to expire. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the 'onapp-messaging' service which had not been stopped as expected. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue with the CDN server creation when the 'default firewall policy' is DROP. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when an IP in routing table was not updated after an accelerator had been deleted and created again with a different IP. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when creating a catalog in vCloud Director did not sync using RabbitMQ. | 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed building a VS from FreeBSD ISO. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Added handling of incorrect user vCloud credentials in transactions. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the 500 error that appeared on VS page after rebuilding a VS in Federation. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Improved the counter for the Roles menu: now if there's a restriction set by user group, then the counter for Users under the Roles menu will specify only the amount of users within the user group. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when Windows VS build failed if owner's name contained incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when not all the locations were shown on maps on server creation wizard due to Google maps API usage limits exceeded. | 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed missing breadcrumbs on the CP Dashboard > Edge Gateway > any Services tab. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when deploying a database cluster, the commands were not displaying in the log. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when HA clusters might get non-operable after hosts reboot. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when deploying an Orchestration model under certain circumstances two Edge Gateways might be created. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when the load balancer might fail to be created if 'Show compute resources on virtual server creation' permission was disabled for the role. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue with the API request for searching a backup of a particular user. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when updating the name of the Accelerator didn't update it on Aflexi side. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Optimized the behavior of save_vm_billing_stats transaction. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed a range of minor bugs related to VPN IPsec of vCloud Director integration. | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when autoscaling could not be enabled in one click in the clouds with high availability enabled. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Added an error message to the logs if the vApp recompose fails. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Improved the stats archiving behavior: if the Time of hourly statistics storage (months) parameter at Settings > Configuration is set to 1, then the stats is available for the previous and current months. | 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when rake task billing:archive_hourly_stats did not delete raw billing statistics. | 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when IOPS on vCloud Dashboard did not work. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when you changed the name of a vApp Template in vCloud Director the name was not synced into Virtuozzo OnApp via RabbitMQ Synchronizer. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when the database cluster could not be starting from Pacemaker. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when the space used for Org VDCs showed disk usage only. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when vCD virtual machines had multiple disks stats were not collected for more than the first disk. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem with support of multiple vCenters for L2 stats collection. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when you created a blank vApp in vCloud Director without any virtual servers it would import into Virtuozzo OnApp but would be in a building state. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem that the wildcards for Addresses and Ports were case sensitive. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed broken breadcrumbs for vCD Edge Gateways. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed Breadcrumbs for External/vApp Networks. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when it was impossible to build a VS from ISO with operating system Windows. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when it was impossible to create Windows-based VSs with own type of license. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when shared Org Networks were rnot showing when deploying vApp. | 4.2 |
| Fix | vApp creation timeout is set to 15 minutes now. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed incorrect status code for API destroy action. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when incorrect message from CP caused Message consumer at compute resource to fail [Hypervisor Tools]. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed search and sorting on vApp page. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue with Virtuozzo OnApp Dashboard not showing IOPS stats for disks. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed miscalculation of some resources in users billing plan (decimal numbers were shown instead of integer) | 4.1 |
| Fix | Added API for Edge Gateway services. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when creating the IP Address Pools ignored the IP range limit set in Settings > Configuration > Interface. | 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when it was impossible to log in to the BareMetal server using SSH keys only (without password). | 4.2 |
| Fix | Added permissions for tunnels. | 4.2 |
| Fix | The following improvements have been made to adding/removing network interfaces to vCloud Director VSs: 1. A NIC can be added to any VS without a VS being shut down 2. The primary NIC will require a VS shut down of the machine to remove it. | 4.1 |
| Fix | Added possibility to see IPs of own VSs by default for user with 'vCloud Catalog Author' role. | 4.1 |
| Fix | Adding Storage Servers is now disabled if CDN service is disabled for the cloud. | 4.0, 4.1 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when MySQL timeout error appeared when deleting statistics for a user or VS. | 3.2.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when ProvisionBaremetalServer transaction roses System Error when there were no software licenses. | 3.1.1 |
| Fix | Fixed the error which occurred for a backup's transaction log item. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem with unsubscribing from a federated zone | 4.2 |
| Fix | Improved handling of RAID devices of Baremetal Server provisioning. | 3.3.0-01 |
| Fix | Fixed the broken autoscaling for load balancer clusters (autoscaling type) using data from Zabbix server. | 4.2 |
Virtuozzo OnApp Integrated Storage and CloudBoot Changes
Use CloudBoot Compute Resources and CloudBoot Backup Server upgrade procedures to install the update.
| Type | Summary | Affects Version/s |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Fixed new glibc vulnerability for Cloudboot compute resources | |
| Improvement | Removed the search field from the Diagnostics page. | |
| Improvement | Now Infiniband MAC is displayed in hex format. | |
| Improvement | Improved storage benchmarking by adding read-local and caching settings to the benchmark wizard. | |
| Improvement | Improved drive formatting in CloudBoot Wizard. | |
| Improvement | Improved Integrated Storaged data store view. | |
| Improvement | Added autorefresh functionality for CloudBoot discovery in the CloudBoot creation wizard. | |
| Improvement | Added XML requests for Usage Trends menu. | |
| Improvement | Added unlimited option for pricing for CPU Quota and Memory Quota for PAYG resouce pool in company plans. | |
| Improvement | Added the 'Forget' button to the Node view page. | |
| Improvement | Added prevention of deleting compute resources if they have storage nodes assigned to data store. | |
| Improvement | Added prevention for users to unassign or format compute resource disk devices that are used for storage. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to set custom range in an API for dashboard statistics. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to provide custom identifier when taking IS locks. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to change MAC address for CloudBoot compute resources. | |
| Improvement | Added possibility to log custom config startup and ending time with syslog. | |
| Improvement | Updated kernel for the CentOS6 Xen ramdisk into recent provided by "CentOS release 6.7 (Final)" | |
| Improvement | Update kernel for the CentOS6 KVM ramdisk into recent provided by "CentOS release 6.7 (Final)" | |
| Improvement | Switched CentOS 6.x KVM ramdisk into 'CentOS release 6.7 (Final)' | |
| Improvement | Switched CentOS 6.x Xen ramdisk into 'CentOS release 6.7 (Final)' | |
| Improvement | Added omping utility to cloudboot images for IP Multicast testing | |
| Improvement | Updated iperf utility to fix Network Diagnostics incorrect data | |
| Fix | Fixed log rotation for qemu/libvirt | |
| Fix | Fixed the 500 error appeared when starting benchmark on CloudBoot vDisk. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Improved filtering for IO statistics for integrated storage data stores to work better with time zones, and in cases when some data is missing. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed an error appeared in Chrome and Edge browsers when creating Infiniband CloudBoot Compute Resources. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed setting max dom0 RAM for xen4 CloudBoot compute resources. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the Server error (500) when enabling CloudBoot. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Fixed the issues with xenstore-write CloudBoot compute resources running CentOS6 & Xen4. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Integrated storage improvement: when adding new drives to storage the hotplug is skipped now if the drive has already been assigned to a STORAGENODE VM. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Added extent preallocation to rspamd to prevent file fragmentation. Pre-allocated sparse regions of the vdisk in 256K chunks using the fallocate() system call. | 3.3.0-19, 3.3.0-22, 3.3.1-9, 3.3.2-3, 3.3.2-4, 3.3.2-6, 3.3.2-8, 3.3.2-9 |
| Fix | Fixed the UI issue when the Integrated Storage sub-menus were not expanded in the left-navigation pane when going to the Network Diagnostics and Content Balance Check settings. | 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 |
| Fix | The unicast host list is now updated for all CloudBoot compute resources after a new CloudBoot backup server is created. | 4.0 |
| Fix | Added configuring of DNS settings for DHCPD. | 3.5-30 |
| Fix | Baremetal Servers are moved from Integrated Storage to a separate menu in the left navigation pane. | 4.3 |
| Fix | Fixed the problem when Virtuozzo OnApp Integrated Storage services have not been starting sucessfully on XEN4 and XEN3. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Reduced RAM consumption on Integrated Storage Diagnostic pages. | 4.2 |
| Fix | Hidden Integrated Storage settings when CloudBoot is turned off. | 3.2.1 |
| Fix | Improved Backup Server Reboot options. | 3.2.0 |
| Fix | Fixed 70-persistent-net.rules for CentOS 5. | 3.5 |
| Fix | Fixed the issue when disks' IOPS statistic were not collected because of unsupported major device type fc. | 4.2, 4.3 |
