Summary
This article provides information on the new features available in CloudPlatform
and support matrix of Cloud Platform and Cloud Portal Business Manager
features.
Support Matrix
Features new in
CCP 3.0.5
Inter-VLAN Routing
Site-to-Site VPN
NetScaler Autoscaling
Local Storage support
for data volumes
Tags
AWS API Changes for
Tags
Changing the AWS API
Port
Features new in CCP
3.0.6
Juniper SRX Support for
Shared Networks
Load Balancer and
firewall configure in inline mode
Additional VMX Settings
Amazon EC2 API
support extended
XenServer Hotfix
notification
Snapshot job throttling
Resetting SSH Keys to
access VM
Security Groups in
Advanced Zones (KVM
only)
Optional Public IP
assignment for EIP with
Basic Zone
Appending a display
name to the guest VM's
internal name
Egress Firewall rules
Microsoft Windows 8 for
Guest Virtual Machines
CloudPortal Business Manager(CPBM)
1.4.3
No
No
No
-
1.4.4
No
No
No
-
1.4.5
No
No
No
-
1.4.6
No
No
No
-
1.4.7
No
No
No
-
2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
-
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
CloudPortal Business Manager(CPBM)
1.4.5
-
1.4.6
-
1.4.7
-
2.0
-
2.1
-
-
-
-
-
-
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
-
-
-
-
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Yes
-
Yes
-
Yes
-
Yes
-
Yes
-
on LVM
Support for CSP
Packages
-
Features new in CCP 4.2
-
-
-
CPBM 2.1
Features to Support Heterogeneous Workloads
Regions
Yes
Object Storage
Zone-Wide Primary Storage Target
Third-Party Plugin Framework
Networking Enhancements
IPv6 Support
No
Portable IPs
No
N-Tier Application 2.0
No
Assigning VLANs to Isolated Networks
Persistent Networks
Cisco VNMC Support
VMware vNetwork Distributed vSwitch
IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks
No
Dedicated Resources: Public IP Addresses and
No
VLANs Per Account
Egress Firewall Rules for physical devices (SRX)
Yes
Non-Contiguous VLAN Ranges
Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLAN
Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
No
Adding Multiple IP Ranges
Reconfiguring Physical Networks in VMs (add/remove No
NICs)
Global Server Load Balancing
No
Host and Virtual Machine Enhancements
Windows 8 and Windows Server as VM Guest OS
Configuring Usage of Linked Clones on VMware
VM Deployment Rules (affinity groups)
No
CPU and Memory Over-Provisioning
CPU and Memory Scaling for Running VMs
Yes
Kickstart Installation for Bare Metal Provisioning
No
Baremetal Support for Cisco UCS
Changing a VM's Base Image
Reset VM on Reboot
Virtual Machine Snapshots
No
Set VMware Cluster Size Limit Depending on VMware Version
Limiting Resource Usage
New Upper Limit on Userdata Size When Deploying a VM
Monitoring, Maintenance, and Operations Enhancements
Basic and Advanced Zone Views
Publish/Subscribe for Events
Deleting and Archiving Events and Alerts
-
-
Increased Granularity for Configuration Parameters
API Request Throttling
Sending Alerts to External SNMP Managers
Health Checks for Load Balanced Instances
Changing the Default Password Encryption
Resizing Volumes
Storage Migration: XenMotion and vMotion
Load Balancing using External Provider on Shared
VLANs
Private Pod, Cluster, or Host (implicit)
Private Pod, Cluster, or Host (explicit)
Log Collection Utility cloud-bugtool
Change Account Ownership of Resources
VMware Volume Snapshot Improved Performance
Other features not specific to CCP 4.2 release
Allow user to specify IP address when launching VM
Support for upload volume
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Notes
Yes
No
-
CCP features supported in CPBM and available in CPBM UI if
applicable.
CCP features not supported in CPBM.
CCP features do not require change to CPBM or the CCP
connector.