Highlights

• A New Primary Storage Type: Vhost: Uses vhost-user mode to connect with high-performance SSD distributed storage.
• Supports Isolated VLAN in L2VlanNetwork: Supports isolated VLAN function of PVLAN on the Cloud to isolate resources within the same VLAN network.
• Optimizations on Monitoring & Alarm: Supports new endpoint types: WeCom and Lark; supports message templates for WeCom, Lark, and HTTP application endpoints.

Overview

Supports Power Management in VM Consoles

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, VM power managements are supported on VM console pages, which effectively improves the VM O&M efficiency. Supported operations now include stopping, rebooting, resuming, pausing, and powering off VM instances.

Starting VM instances is not supported in VM consoles. You need to exercise this operation on the VM main list or on the VM details page.

Allows You to Reboot VM Instance without Interrupting the Console Connection

In previous versions, rebooting VM instance interrupts the connection to the VM console. After the rebooting, you have to manually relaunch a console page to continue your operations in the console.

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, an existing VM console connection will automatically recover after a VM rebooting. This allows you to continue your operations in the VM console without launching a new console page and enhances your usage experience.

VM Console Page Automatically Adapts to the Browser Resolution

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, VM console pages can adapts to the browser resolution automatically, ensuring a clear and complete console screen regardless of the browser resolution value.

Improves Image Uploading Speed to ImageStore

ZStack Cloud 5.0.0 enhances the image uploading speed to backup storage of ImageStore type. With a gigabit network, the speed of uploading images through local files increases by 210% on average; the speed of uploading images through URLs increases by 25% on average. However, URL path, URL download methods, and other factors may also affect the image uploading speed.

Displays image uploading speed and estimated remaining time in real-time.

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, after adding an image through a local file, you can view the image uploading speed and remaining time in the task detail to better grasp the uploading progress.

Currently, this improvement applies to image uploaded through local files only.

Calculates image MD5 after the uploading, which can be used to verify the image integrity.

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, the system automatically calculates the MD5 value of a uploaded image and displays it on the image details page. You can verify the image integrity by checking the MD5.

Note:

• The system does not calculate MD5 for images uploaded to Ceph backup storage.
• A VMDK image will be converted into a QCOW2-formatted or ROW-formatted image, which causes an inevitable MD5 change. Therefore, if you upload a VMDK file, do not rely on this MD5 to verify the image integrity.

Supports new endpoint types: WeCom and Lark

ZStack Cloud 5.0.0 supports new endpoint types: WeCom and Lark. After creating a group robot on the WeCom or Lark platform, you can add the robot webhook to ZStack Cloud to make Cloud alarms sent to specified WeCom or Lark groups.

A WeCom or Lark robot can @ group members when sending alarm messages to attract their attention in time. You can enable/disable this @ function for WeCom or Lark endpoints on ZStack Cloud and manage the @ member lists flexibly.

Same as other endpoints, a WeCome or Lark endpoint can be used by resource alarms, event alarms, extended alarms, resource groups, and one-click alarm.

Supports message templates for WeCom, Lark, and HTTP application endpoints.

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, you can customize WeCom, Lark, and HTTP application message templates to unify the format of alarm messages sent to corresponding endpoints.

ZStack Cloud offers template samples respectively for WeCom, Lark, and HTTP application. You can refer to these samples and configure needed fields in your custom templates.

ZStack Cloud also provides system default templates. In scenarios where you do not create custom message templates, alarm messages are sent according to system default templates.

Adds New Fields in Message Templates, Providing More alarm Details

Starting from ZStack Cloud 5.0.0, you can add three new fields, Resource IP, Cluster UUID, and Cluster Name, in Email, DingTalk, Lark, WeCom, HTTP application and Microsoft Teams message templates to get more detailed alarm information on the 3rd-party platform.