HPE VM Essentials Software Documentation

v8.0.4 Release Notes

Release Dates:

  • v8.0.4 March 31, 2025

New Features

API & CLI

  • Clusters have a new property provisionComplete which returns true after provisioning is completed

  • Integrations (/api/integrations) and integration types (/api/integration-types) can now be queried through HPE VM Essentials API

  • The result of creating Clusters without providing a Resource Name value is now consistent across HPE VM Essentials UI, API and CLI (default cluster name and node names are provided)

HPE VM

  • Added initial admin password confirm to the HPE VM Manager setup process to prevent the need for reinstallation if the initial password is mistyped

  • HPE VM Cluster Layout version 1.2 added in BETA. Clusters running layout version 1.2 should be used for testing purposes and should not be used for running production workloads

  • The HPE VM installer now prompts for interface names (ex. compute or management interface) using a dropdown menu to prevent failures due to simple typos

  • When installing the HPE VM Manager, an error is now logged if the installer is unsuccessful in downloading the Manager QCOW image from the URL provided

Installer

  • Added additional checks that the appliance URL DNS name is resolvable to warn the user prior to beginning the Manager installation process

License

  • HPE VM Essentials appliances now allow stacking licenses. When stacked, the cumulative total of license privileges are allowed

Plugins

  • Added support for AurbaCX network plugin. See integration guide for setup details and use cases

  • Added support for HPE Alletra MP storage plugin. See integration guide for setup details and use cases

  • Improved appliance cleanup when plugins are removed

Fixes

API & CLI

  • API calls to resize no longer require “Reconfigure: Disk Change Type” permission when the resize doesn’t affect storage

  • Adding a network via HPE VM Essentials API now always results in a prompt to select a Network Domain

  • Fixed Inventory Options flags not being returned in GET calls for Clouds of certain Cloud types

Backups

  • When deleting an Instance and opting to preserve the backups, HPE VM Essentials no longer attempts to take new backups (which fail) on the scheduled backup job interval

Clone

  • Cloud-init configuration files removed prior to taking a snapshot to clone are now restored on the source VM after the clone is complete

Clouds

  • The “No Proxy” and “Bypass proxy for appliance URL” configurations on the Cloud now affect HPE VM Essentials Agent installations on running VMs

HPE VM

  • Fixed an issue with restarting VMs if snapshots were deleted prior to attempting restart

  • Improved Snapshot handling when VMs were not running

  • Improved handling of configured proxy information in the HPE VM installer

  • When resizing HPE VM Instances which change disk size or remove a disk, the user is warned that existing snapshots will be purged and, if accepted, all existing snapshots are purged

Instances

  • Fixed a situation where disk labels could be duplicated under certain conditions when disks were removed and added via reconfigures

  • On Instance resize, the user who triggers the resize is credited in Instance history with all processes associated, even those resulting from Provisioning Workflow Tasks set by a different user

License

  • Fixed an issue that caused workloads using provisioning technologies other than HPE VM Clusters not to count correctly against license limits

Network

  • Fixed an issue that caused orphaned network records in HPE VM Essentials if the network was deleted from vCenter during a HPE VM Essentials Cloud sync

  • When changing the network selection at provision time, the DHCP/pool/static selection now resets

Roles

  • Fixed a scenario where a newly created Role with default access levels for some constructs set to NONE could have them elevated to FULL following a restart

  • Fixed incorrect access to the Tools menu when certain specific and limited access was given to Tools components

Tasks

  • Powershell Tasks run against VMware Instances without HPE VM Essentials Agent installed will now default to using guestTools for execution

  • Users without permissions to decrypt Cypher values can no longer run Tasks utilizing the <%=cypher.read%> function

VMware

  • Added improved keymap handling for VMware hypervisor console for German, UK (PC), and Italian layouts for both Windows and Linux servers

Appliance & Agent Updates

Linux Agent

  • HPE VM Essentials linux agent updated to v2.9.4

guacd

  • guacamole-server updated to v1.6.0

Node Packages

  • Updated to v3.2.34 with HPE VM Essentials linux agent v2.9.4

  • Java updated to 17.0.14+7

Known Issues

Alletra MP Storage Plugin

  • No support for iface for Software iSCSI

  • VM Migration to other hosts may fail under heavy write-iops load on the VM. Recommendation is to reduce write-iops prior to migration

  • Virtual images created without a specified disk capacity will fail to provision if the associated disk size is smaller than the minimum required

  • VM in shutdown state will not migrate to the new node until it’s powered on

  • If the default image store is created after the virtual image is uploaded, it may cause issues with VM provisioning. Workaround is to ensure the store is created prior to virtual image creation

  • Reconfigure Instance with HPE Alletra MP datastore fails if there is an attached CD ROM. Workaround is to delete the CD Drive before performing any subsequent actions for reconfigure

  • Mixed datastore type is not supported for snapshot related features. Workaround is to specify the Alletra datastore by changing the disk type to Standard, selecting the datastore, and changing back to CD ROM

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