New functionality and change list¶
R5 (V21.1.0)¶
R5 (V21.1.0) is an enhancement to previous releases with some scalability, security, and usability improvements, new features and fixes to issues that were found in previous releases.
What’s new in Zadara Cloud Services¶
Major Changes & bug fixes¶
- Zadara Cloud Services
NK-227 - Managed resources (like: ENI, EIP, Security Groups,etc…) are now hidden by default and need to explicitly toggle to see them in all views
NK-294 - Added a capability to the GUI to change Direct Network IP addresses allocation pool
NK-470 - An issue if a wrong error when extending volume on a live instance was resolved
NK-502 - VM snapshots are now restored to the requested pool
NK-594 - MFA is now supported using authenticator application on a mobile device (e.g. Google Authenticator), for both Console and CLI login
NK-771, NK-777 - The system now allows admins and tenant_admins to create instance types and also specify the CPU topology over sockets
NK-795 - A network mini-graph was added on the nodes list view
NK-809 - Added clear indication and system alarm to the cloud admin when running out of EIP per IP pool
NK-831 - Prevent deletion of ENI from the GUI
NK-865 - Ability to export filtered lists as CSV file was added toall GUI tables
NK-897 - GUI and Sym/AWS web shell now work even if firewall is forwarding different public port to 443
NK-904 - Snapshots and volumes are now deleted when deleting image from the marketplace
NK-906 - Tenant Admin gets all the permissions of a member
NK-913 - Images and Marketplace Images now have an Operating system field The Operating system is inherited by the Instances created out of these images
NK-955 - The reboot button was removed from the instance view
NK-967 - A new inspector command was added that can be used to validate the MTU of all network interfaces after changing the MTU in the cluster
R4 (V5.5.4)¶
R4 is an enhancement to previous releases with some scalability, security, and usability improvements, new features and fixes to issues that were found in previous releases.
What’s new in Zadara Cloud Services¶
Improvements to the VM Creation dialogue¶
NK-733 - Instance creation wizard Steps are according to functionality
Step1 - Compute
Step2 - Storage
Step3 - Network
Step4 - Config
Show the VPC virtual router IP on the direct subnet¶
NK-668 - It is, now, easier to set the static routes in the external routers in case that VMs on non direct VPC subnets need to be accessed via the direct subnets or need to access entities on the direct subnet that are outside of the direct subnet allocation pool
Major Changes & bug fixes¶
- Zadara Cloud Services
NK-234 - An issue, where direct-network was not listed as route in route-table, was fixed
NK-444 - Improved Resource Consumption tile to make it easier to understand
NK-546 - create default VPC operation was added to the GUI
NK-621 - When attaching Elastic IP, if there is only one network available, it’s now selected automatically
NK-648 - The issue of Load Balancer creation with elastic IP that belong to an instance was resolved
NK-661 - Basic event filtering was fixed, and now working as expected
NK-663 - Project delete is now possible even if a NAT gateway still exists in the project but in a deleted state
NK-681 - AWS compatible API now support import from snapshot
NK-703 - CoreDNS VMs removed from the network topology diagram. Clicking the VPC shows if DNS is enabled
NK-729 - When creating key pair for a VM the keys are automaticaly download, to prevent inaccessible intance
NK-730 - Neokarm Policies were renamed Symp Policies
NK-739 - Cleanup of aging images from the marketplace
NK-800 - The “default” security group is properly displayed even if a load balancer is configured in the same VPC
R3 (V5.5.3)¶
R3 is an enhancement to previous releases with some scalability, security, and usability improvements, new features and fixes to issues that were found in previous releases.
What’s new in Zadara Cloud Services¶
Quick start button and screens¶
Look for the quick start button on the main navigation bar
It will easily guide you via the most common tasks such as creating VM instances, attaching storage volumes, etc…
New VPC creation wizard¶
A wizard was added to assist you with creating the 3 common topologies of VPCs with private or public subnets
The Wizard can activated from the Quick Start and from the VPCs pane
Elastic Network Interfaces¶
A new screen was added to manage Network Interfaces. Network interfaces may be attached and detached from an instance and may even move between instances or be a route target. Until now, you could only create it implicitly when connecting an instance to a subnet. Now it has its own screen that exposes the full functionality.
A user can now Create/attach/detach/add security groups and update the name of any network interface.
Toolbox¶
A VM with client tools available on the marketplaces Toolbox v5.5.0. The images contain the Symp CLI, AWS CLI, Python 2.7, Boto3 and Terraform. The instance should be created with an SSH key pair.
Major Changes & bug fixes¶
- Zadara Cloud Services
NK-386 - Added Storage Pool update mechanism
NK-405 - The GUI was fixed to allow subnet name change
NK-422 - The GUI was fixed to enable detach security groups from a network interface
NK-467 - Account members can now generate Access keys
NK-468 - All the networking related tabs are now merged into the networks tab Under instance view. EIP, Security groups and Interfaces operations are done from the same place.