Morpheus v6.2.7 Documentation¶
v6.2.7 LTS Release Notes¶
Important
v6.2.7 contains embedded MySQL v8 upgrade when upgrading from v6.0.0 - v6.0.6 or 6.1.0 - 6.2.1. BACKUP YOUR DATABASE PRIOR TO UPGRADE when using embedded MySQL (all-in-one appliances)
Important
Minimum v6.x required to upgrade to v6.2.7 for environments using embedded RabbitMQ. Environments running 5.5.x or earlier using embedded RabbitMQ must upgrade to v6.0.0 - v6.0.6, or 6.1.0 - 6.2.1 prior to upgrading to v6.2.7
Warning
Rolling upgrades for HA environments using embedded RabbitMQ and/or embedded Elasticsearch services are not supported when upgrading from v6.0.0 - v6.0.6 or 6.1.0 - 6.2.1
Compatible Plugin API version: 0.15.10
Compatible Morpheus Worker version: 5.4.8
Minimum upgrade version: v6.0.0
Note
Items appended with 6.x.x are also included in that version
Release Dates
v6.2.7 Feb 15 2024
6.2.7-2 Feb 21 2024
6.2.7-2 Updates¶
- Terraform
Fixed an issue with the Terraform -> Apply State action when no Reconfigure Approval policy is enabled. This issue was introduced in v6.3.4-1 and v6.2.7-1. 6.3.4-2
- Amazon
Added sync optimization that reduces AWS cloud sync times and system load. 6.3.4-2
New Features¶
- Dashboard
The Dashboard plugin has been updated to support German, French, and Italian localizations 6.3.4
- Inputs
On the Instance detail page under the Runtime tab, the “Option Types” subtab has been relabeled “Inputs” 6.3.4
- Nutanix Prism Central
Added Terraform support to Nutanix Prism Central plugin 6.3.4
- Security
Embedded Tomcat upgraded to 9.0.83 to mitigate CVE-2023-46589 6.3.4
- Veeam
Added official support for Veeam 12 6.3.4
Fixes¶
- API & CLI
Access token refresh is now working properly. If the call is made while the token is valid, the
expires_in
property indicates how many more seconds until it expires. If the access token has expired, it refreshes the token and resets the expire date 6.3.4Creating Morpheus-type Clouds through Morpheus API without passing the config block is now supported 6.3.4
Fixed resized servers taking on a default plan configuration after being resized via Morpheus API/CLI 6.3.4
Initial setup of a Morpheus appliance via Morpheus CLI is now working correctly 6.3.4
Multitenant Roles created in the Master Tenant can now be set at the default Role for an Identity Source created via Morpheus API/CLI within a Subtenant 6.3.4
The
instanceTypeLayouts
block is now being returned in API calls of the formhttps://<applianceUrl>/api/instance-types?phrase=dev%25centos&details=true
from a Subtenant 6.3.4
- Agent
Agent upgrades on SLES OS now use
zypper
rather thanyum
6.3.4
- Amazon
Deactivated AWS Service Plans are no longer reactivated after the next nightly Cloud sync 6.3.4
- Ansible
The History tab on the Ansible Group detail page and the Ansible Integration detail page has been removed as it was not intended to appear there 6.3.4
The info dialog for a running Ansible Task now receives live status updates while the modal is open. Previously the modal had to be closed and reopened to refresh 6.3.4
- Apps
Fixed App Instances appearing in a “Provisioning” state when they were actually still in a “Pending” state 6.3.4
- Azure
Added validation to clarify that comma-separated lists of port ranges cannot be submitted as “Destination Port Range” in an Azure Security Group 6.3.4
Fixed Nordic characters in tags causing provisioning failures 6.3.4
Fixed Service Plans not syncing when Azure Clouds were scoped to all regions 6.3.4
- Bluecat
Bluecat domains associated with networks are now being setup properly as resource records in Bluecat when provisioning to Amazon through Morpheus 6.3.4
- Blueprints
The lock/unlock/hidden toggle button for Terraform variables no longer disappears when clicked during Terraform App Blueprint creation 6.3.4
- Catalog
When “Show Pricing” is toggled off in the Provisioning section of global settings, the cart totals are now hidden when ordering Catalog items 6.3.4
When an Input is set on both the Instance Type or Layout and the Catalog order form, the Input will no longer appear twice on the Runtime tab of the Instance detail page after provisioning 6.3.4
- Clusters
The ACTIONS button on the containers tab of the cluster detail page is now active and allows for restart or delete actions on one or more containers within the cluster 6.3.4
- DigitalOcean
When adding a DO Cloud and selecting “new credentials” to also save the credentials in the Morpheus credential store, the list of Datacenters now loads through successfully 6.3.4
- IPAM
Validation is no longer performed when saving disabled IPAM integrations as this could potentially make it impossible to disable an unreachable IPAM integration 6.3.4
- Inputs
Inputs whose visibility was dependent on other Inputs and which are configured to “Show On Edit” are now visible when editing the Instance 6.3.4
- Instances
Added additional protections against added environment variables with NULL names as this caused downstream problems within the UI 6.3.4
Instances being removed by an expiration policy now appear in a “Removing” state during this teardown as a manually-deleted Instance would be 6.3.4
- Kubernetes
Fixed an issue that prevented provisioning new containers to Kubernetes clusters deployed via custom Cluster Layouts to Amazon Clouds 6.3.4
Fixed Morpheus Agent installation failures for Rocky 9 Kubernetes cluster provisioning 6.3.4
Fixed Morpheus Agent installation issues when provisioning custom Kubernetes clusters to Amazon Linux 2 nodes 6.3.4
Kubernetes worker nodes are now drained prior to deleting as gracefully taking worker nodes out of service prior to deleting is a recommended best practice 6.3.4
The given cluster name in Morpheus is now injected into the cluster manifest rather than the default name “kubernetes” being used 6.3.4
When a Kubernetes worker node is made inactive (by
sudo systemctl stop kubelet
), the status of the cluster is given as “warning” rather than as “failed” 6.3.4
- Load Balancers
The load balancer virtual servers list page is now paginated to improve performance in situations where there are many 6.3.4
- NSX-T
Fixed errors on integration sync when BGP is configured on a NSX-t 4.1 Tier-0 Gateway 6.3.4
- Node Types
Editing a Node Type no longer resets any configurations that were inside the “Layout Specific Settings” section of the config modal 6.3.4
Removed some outdated help text that was no longer valid in the Add/Edit Node Type modal 6.3.4
- Nutanix
Provisioning to Nutanix Clouds using custom images stored in CIFS shares now works properly 6.3.4
- Option Lists
Fixed successfully saved Inputs referencing REST-based Option Lists leaving errors in logs 6.3.4
- Oracle Cloud
After reconfiguring Oracle Instances, the updated cores count is now reflected on the Instance detail page 6.3.4
- Plans and Pricing
When creating a Price Set and setting the Type to “Software/Service,” the help text now changes to offer configuration help for that specific type 6.3.4
- Roles
Updated the permission description for the Monitoring: Logs feature permission to correct an error 6.3.4
When the name of a multi-Tenant and locked Role is updated in the Master Tenant, the name is now propagated down to Subtenant. Additionally, Subtenant administrators may rename these Roles without affecting the name in other Tenants 6.3.4
- SCVMM
The “Allow migration to a virtual machine host with a different processor version” checkbox on the Hardware Configuration > Process properties on the template is being honored when provisioning an instance to SCVMM Clouds 6.3.4
- Tasks
We are now using preemptive basic authentication when using username and password against an HTTPS endpoint for HTTP-type Tasks 6.3.4
- Tenants
Fixed Tenant deletion failures if the Tenant owned any Option Lists 6.3.4
- Terraform
Added capability to use ‘0’ as a getter with the Morpheus HCL parser. For example,
disks.0.size
is now acceptable syntax. The previous example would only be parsed successfully asdisks[0].size
6.3.4Provisioning Terraform Apps via Catalog now honors the
autoValidate: false
flag which skips theterraform plan
run and speeds the ordering process 6.3.4Reconfigure Approval Policies are now properly applied when
apply state
is issued to Terraform Apps 6.3.4Updated the HCL parser to correctly parse the
!=
operator in a variable validation
- User Settings
Date formats now dynamically update to match the date setting configured by the user’s web browser 6.3.4
- VDI Pools
Fixed VDI Pool Instances with Teardown-phase Tasks getting stuck during removal 6.3.4
- VMware
If an operating system is set on the OVF or VMDK and a server is provisioned from that image, Morpheus now takes that value as the OS shown in the info section on the server detail page 6.3.4
Improved handling of situations involving movement of VMs across vCenter clusters and resource pools 6.3.4
Snapshots taken during a Cloud sync no longer disappear from Morpheus UI until the next Cloud sync 6.3.4
When a vCenter VM is deleted, on the next Cloud sync, Morpheus now consistently updates the status of the Instance and server to “unknown” 6.3.4
When reconfiguring to add a network interface, then selecting a network and opting for a static IP address, Morpheus will no longer select an address from the network IP pool instead 6.3.4
- Veeam
Fixed Tenant Permissions not working for Veeam backup repositories 6.3.4
Embedded Plugins¶
- Dashboard
The Dashboard plugin has been updated v1.0.6 to support German, French, and Italian localizations 6.3.4
Appliance & Agent Updates¶
- Appliance
Upgraded embedded
tomcat
to version 9.0.83 6.3.4
- Agent
Morpheus Linux Agent updated to v2.5.3 6.3.4
- Node Packages
Morpheus node and vm-node packages updated to v 3.2.21 with Morpheus Linux Agent v2.5.3 6.3.4
- Getting Started
- Operations
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- logback config
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- MySQL Too many connections error
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- Unable to Delete Tenant
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- Variables
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- Getting started with Morpheus and AWS
- Getting started with Morpheus and VMware
- Introduction
- Installation & Setup
- Groups
- Integrating Your First Cloud
- Viewing Cloud Inventory
- Configuring Resource Pools
- Configuring Data Stores
- Configuring Folders
- Configuring Network for Provisioning
- Prepping an Image
- Provisioning Your First Instance
- Creating Your First Library Item
- Automation and Configuration Management
- Conclusion
- Getting started with Morpheus and Azure
- Automated Single-Node Application Deployment with Morpheus
- Automated Multi-Node Application Deployment with Morpheus
- Adding Functionality Through Operational Workflows
- Creating XaaS Instance Types with Morpheus
- Morpheus Virtual Desktops
- VDI Pools Overview
- Configuring Access to VDI Pools
- Creating VDI Templates
- Creating or Editing a VDI Pool
- Creating or Editing a VDI Apps
- VDI Gateways
- Virtual Desktop Persona Overview
- Key Features
- Configuring Access to the Virtual Desktop Persona
- Launching a VDI Instance
- Changing the Virtual Desktop Persona Background
- Getting Started with Terraform Instance Types
- Backing Up and Restoring Morpheus Appliance
- Cloud Resource Tagging with Morpheus
- Cypher Policies
- Configuring Access with Clouds, Groups, and Roles
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