General Upgrade Notes

Depreciation of realhostip.com

The realhostip.com dynamic DNS resolution service is being retired on September 30th, 2014. In advance of that, CloudStack 4.4 and later no longer uses realhostip.com DNS domains or SSL certificates to encrypt Console Proxy or file copy communications.

For latest update about realhostip.com follow Apache CloudStack Blog.

Settings Changes

Console Proxy URL

Please use *.realhostip.com (note the asterisk) as consoleproxy.url.domain value in global configs if you are using HTTPS for console proxy. Please note that you need to restart the management server when you change the global config value.

If you started with 4.3, you are likely running the console in HTTP mode and the value of the above global config should be blank.

If switching between HTTP / HTTPS, the console proxy VM has to be destroyed and recreated (available via UI)

Cluster Settings

After upgrading to 4.2 and later, Settings mem.overporvisioning.factor and cpu.overporvisioning.factor are now at the cluster level and be set to 1 which is the default.

If Global Settings mem.overporvisioning.factor and cpu.overporvisioning.factor have been changed prior the upgrade to 4.2 and later, the upgrade process will be reset them to 1. Values can be changed by editing clusters settings.

All clusters created after the upgrade will get created with the Global Settings values for mem.overporvisioning.factor and cpu.overporvisioning.factor.

Active-Directory Authentication (LDAP)

If using Active-Directory (LDAP/LDAPs) as user authentication; Upgrading to 4.3 and later require changes in Global Settings. After upgrading CloudStack to 4.3 or latest, following Global Settings must be change:

Global Settings Default New
ldap.user.object inetOrgPerson user
ldap.username.attribute uid sAMAccountName

SystemVM 32bit deprecated

32bit version of systemvm templates are in the process of behing deprecated. Upgrade instructions from this Release Notes use 64bit templates. 32bit systemvm-templates are available for this version on http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/systemvm/4.4/. Follow the dev mailing list for further updates.