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ZStack Cloud 4.4.6
On May 25, 2022, ZStack Cloud officially released its latest version, ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, covering a number of important features described in detail below.
Overview of new features in ZStack Cloud 4.4.6
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Enhancement
- CDP backup is enhanced
- CDP recovery is enhanced
- CDP O&M efficiency is enhanced
- CDP data page interaction is optimized
- Support for OVF Template Management
- Supports the uploading of vmdk-formatted image
- Supports the importing of VM instances via OVF templates (ovf/vmdk/mf format)
- Supports the exporting of VM instances (ova format)
- Support for API Inspector
- VM Instances with vNUMA Enabled Support Hot Migration
- VM Instances Support NIC Attach/Detach EIP from Configuration Info Page
- New Global Setting of Host Allocation Strategy
- Other Features and Improvements
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Enhancement
For ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, the enhancements for Continuous Data Protection (CDP) are as follows.
CDP backup is enhanced
ZStack Cloud 4.4.6 provides support to create a CDP task for multiple VM instances and give continuous data protection to them collectively, further helping you to reduce repetitive operations and improve O&M efficiency.
Flexible RPO settings are supported. You are allowed to set the RPO of a CDP task on a second/minute level according to actual needs for backup. The UI allows you to make these settings from CDP task creation page, CDP task main list, and CDP task details page.
When you create a CDP task for the first time, the Cloud will intelligently suggest the CDP data size calculated from specified algorithm, which helps you reasonably plan the backup space and prevent it from being overly occupied.
CDP recovery is enhanced
In ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, the operation Create Recovery Task is newly added, which provides you a wizard-based recovery process. To restore data, a recovery task can be created based on CDP tasks and data recovery points.
In ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, the main list Recovery Task is added to the UI to display all operation logs and recovery task status that are related to CDP recovery in the Cloud.
In case of recovery task failure or cancellation, you are allowed to redo the recovery task with just one click, making the whole recovery process more convenient.
CDP O&M efficiency is enhanced
In ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, the CDP Dashboard is newly added to the UI to visually display the number and status of CDP tasks/recovery tasks, CPU/memory load of backup servers, Top 5 of backup server usage, disk I/O of backup servers and unread alarms related to CDP. The new dashboard is convenient for you to track the significant CDP information of the whole Cloud in real time, and helps you further improve the O&M efficiency.
CDP data page interaction is optimized
In versions earlier, the CDP data page could only display data by days, so data change might not be noticeable enough. In case of data recovery, you had to find the recovery point first before performing recovery process from the operation list.
ZStack Cloud 4.4.6 allows you to view hourly data on the CDP data page, and the data will be displayed in the form of correlated charts and sheets. The CDP data change of VM instances is shown in a visualized way, which provides a reference for backup capacity planning.
The new CDP data page provides a recovery point calendar, which identifies the dates with recovery points in green color and helps you to locate recovery points quickly. Meanwhile, fast data recovery is supported as well, so that you can achieve fast recovery based on recovery points already known.
In addition, the CDP data page also shows CDP status with icons in different colors, which helps you to identify CDP status easily and handle abnormal situations in a timely manner.
Support for OVF Template Management
In ZStack Cloud 4.4.6, the OVF template management is newly added to further improve VM instance deployment efficiency.
Supports the uploading of vmdk-formatted image
After exporting the OVF template of VM instance on a third-party cloud platform, you are allowed to upload the VMDK-formatted files from the exported OVF template to ZStack Cloud as system image/volume image, and then you can quickly create corresponding VM instance/volume resources.
Supports the importing of VM instances via OVF templates (ovf/vmdk/mf formats)
After exporting the OVF template of VM instance on a third-party cloud platform, you are allowed to import files of all formats (ovf/vmdk/mf format) from the OVF template into ZStack Cloud based on your business needs. Then you can configure parameters of the target VM instance on demand, such as computing, storage and network, achieving efficient migration and flexible deployment of VM instances across platforms.
Supports the exporting of VM instances (ova format)
ZStack Cloud 4.4.6 provides support to export stopped VM instances to an ImageStore backup storage in ova format. You can copy the URLs of the exported VM instance files or directly download the files to local machines.
Support for API Inspector
ZStack Cloud 4.4.6 newly adds the function of API inspector, which allows you to easily view the API calls associated with each step of the Cloud, significantly improving the efficiency of development and operation.
API Inspector is located at the upper right corner of the Cloud UI interface, and the API Record window can be displayed by clicking the icon API. It allows to view all the API calls related to operations in the Cloud, such as query, add, delete and change. API records are displayed and scrolling in real-time by timeline, and a maximum of 100 latest records can be displayed. You can filter the request types based on your business needs, including GET-ZQL, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. The API records will be automatically cleared every time the filter condition is changed, or you can clear them with one click.
After you click View Details of a single API record, you can check current API call ID, request method, request URL, request header, request body, cUrl request example, response result, response time and other information. Among them, the API call ID can be used to quickly locate log records for current call in the management node front-end and back-end, which helps to quickly troubleshoot the problem. For request details with GET-ZQL as the request method, ZQL statements checking is specially supported, which can be used as a reference for quick learning and enhance the query efficiency. You are allowed to copy all code snippets, and this is convenient for you to debug using third-party tools.
