Release Notes

Portal

• Remove “CANCEL_PENDING” in UI in favor of “Deleted”

API

• The following are removed from SLDN
  • SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Allowed_Host::createFromHardware
  • SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Allowed_Host::createFromVirtualGuest
  • SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Allowed_Host::createFromIpAddress
  • SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Allowed_Host::createFromSubnet These methods have never worked as stand-alone API calls. They were designed to be used in other host authorization methods.

Please, continue to use the following API methods to authorize hosts: - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromHardware - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromHardwareList - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromVirtualGuest - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromVirtualGuestList - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromIpAddress - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromIpAddressList - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromSubnet - SoftLayer_Network_Storage::allowAccessFromSubnetList

• Notify Backup Storage Customers with tickets about their un-billed Backup storage
• Don’t allow NVMe disks to be part of storage group
• Password requirements are returned in SoftLayer_User_Customer::getRequirementsForPasswordSet. Increased maximum portal password length to 128. Vpn password maximum length remains at 20.
• Updated the reactivateAccount and disableAccount API methods on the SoftLayer_Brand object to return feedback when the account provided is already in the desired state.

Backend

• Code completed for sending out email when public image is updated by a public image account.
• Removes ordering support for customer defined networks.

Catalog

• 2U / 4-Socket Cascade Lake Servers
• Price Change on
  • Item ID 3835 Price ID 13794 - SoftLayer Retail Catalog - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x - LAMP Install (64 bit) (1 - 4 CORE)
  • Item ID 3839 Price ID 13799 - SoftLayer Retail Catalog - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x - Minimal Install (64 bit) (1 - 4 CORE)
  • Item ID 6123 Price ID 48993 - SoftLayer Retail Catalog - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x - Minimal Install (64 bit) (1 - 4 CORE)
  • Item ID 6131 Price ID 49021 - SoftLayer Retail Catalog - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x - LAMP Install (64 bit) (1 - 4 CORE)
• Add 2x2TB SATA HDD to package 1075 presets 1158 and 1160
• Bare Metal Reserve (BMR) SAP Configs
• VMW General Availability
• VMW - Create new Presets for Single Node and Digital play with 6.7u2 and Disk Less server
  • vCS Digital Play 6.7u2 - NEW ID 1158
  • vCS Single Node 6.7u2 - NEW ID 1160
• Make Package 551 available in Sao Paulo
• Customers should be able to provision a Cascade Lake server with 1-2 K80, M60, P100, 16GB V100 or 32GB V100 GPUs.

Portal

• Adds a new product group to the order forms for NVMe SSD disks
• Fix owner IBMid change broken by 2FA/SecAnswers

API

• allowedPptpVpnQuantity set to zero for all accounts.

Portal

• Add redirect for Manage portal /login and /index to appropriate login page

API

• Add logging of iSCSI and NFS Host Authorization to the SoftLayer_Event_Log for authorization and deauthorization events
• Fixed an issue with SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::getPendingMaintenanceActions()
• Fix issue with verifyOrder checking public pool capacity on VPC guests
• Adding a new trait (DEFAULT_NEW_ACCOUNTS_PREMIUM) that if set to 1 will initialize all new brand sub-accounts with Premium support.

Backend

• Fix issue where retention disk billing would sometimes be inaccurate after reloading a virtual server.
• Custom Encrypted Windows VHD Import from ICOS.

Portal

• Fix issue preventing orders from completing for new EU customers.
• Fix the payment method disappearing when selecting PayPal, leaving the user unable select another payment method.

API

• Adds SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::getPendingMaintanceActions()
• Added ability to skip platform account creation and linking when using the SoftLayer_Brand::createCustomerAccount API
• Exposed gpuType and gpuCount on the SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest class
• Add iamidVerificationFlag to SoftLayer_User_Customer_Link
• Allow gateway orders to define the router id on the hardware template object.

"hardware": [
    {
        "hostname": "softlayer",
        "domain": "local.com",
        "primaryBackendNetworkComponent": {
            "router": {
                "id": 1076595
            }
        }
    }
],

Backend

• Fix evault creations on new server provisions
• IBM Cloud CDN - Deny the http traffic if customer only chooses the https port.
• Fixed an issue where a user upgrades or downgrades a Variable Compute VSIs from API or UI the VSI changes its type from “Variable Compute” to public Type.
• Fixes VSI/BM provisions with evault to complete.
• Http Cookie Persistence support for Cloud Load Balancer
• EMS maintenance email improvements
• Fix failing health check for https l7 pool

API

• Create new Software_Description HSM_OS attribute type

Backend

• Do not require postal code for ARIN addresses outside US & Canada
• Fix accepting Master User invitation on account linked at create time
• Fixed an issue upgrade GPU enabled VSIs
• Prevents ordering GPU’s when provisioning from an image template set to boot in PV.

Catalog

• Adding a category code for dynamic CDN bandwidth.
  • cdn_service_dynamic_bandwidth
  • cdn_service_dynamic_bandwidth_usage
• Add 500GB Bandwidth option to package 1111
• Update Single Node Preset 1051 in package 1075 with updated pricing
• Create rule to conflict Windows 2019 and vCenter 6.7
• Add the CXL 4210 server to package 1111
• Add ESXi 6.5u2 to package 1065
• Expand Global Availability of vGPU (FRA, TOK, SYD)
• Update catalog package 1113 for Cascade Lake 2U 4 socket server

Portal

• Changes to order currency selection logic. Existing customers will have orders default to the currency selected on their billing information, or US Dollars if unavailable.
• Surfaces helpful validation messages to customers upgrading to PAYGO

API

• Allow customers to query read-only information about the keyName of their assigned Catalog
  • SoftLayer_Account->brand->catalog->keyName

Backend

• Improve the process of provisioning IBM Backup Storages.
• Allow customer cancellation of VLANs with other canceled resources on the VLAN
• IBM Cloud CDN - Update the IBM CNAME to use new domain ‘cdn.appdomain.cloud’.

Portal

API

• Fix issue where some order receipts did not have consistent data provided in API responses.
• Adding exception message if interconnect tenant has no billing item when trying to upgrade.
• Remove depreciated Network Core Account Defined Networks code from User_Cusomer
• All customer users pptpVpnAllowedFlag is set to 0

Backend

• Prevent attempts to attach a portable disk to multiple VSIs at the same time.
• Restrict performing an OS reload of a guest with GPUs into PV boot mode.

Portal

• Choosing a secondary IP Address brought on requirement questions. These are now translated for other languages.
• Prevents Bare Metal Reserved servers from appearing on the server list page.
• Fixed an issue where cases created from the support center are not coming through as BAP escalated

API

• Allow user to set default IBMid link, correct permissions required
  • SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnect::setDefaultAccount()
• IBM Cloud CDN - Support “/” at the end of purge url path.

Backend

• Fix a bug where Customer users cannot delete linked-to-IBMid user
• Allow SAML authenticated accounts to link to platform

Portal

• Email can be removed from watchlist by control portal

API

• Fix a bug that could’ve resulted in additional conflict rules from being retrieved when querying via the package.
• Add SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::nextGenFlag field to indicate that image is a next gen image
• New API getIscsiIsolationDisabled, added to SoftLayer_Account to display the iSCSI isolation status of an account.

Backend

• Users with the user-management Editor or Admin role should now be properly allowed to delete users.
• Fix issues upgrading a V100 GPU VSI to a P100 GPU VSI.

Catalog

• New Item/Price IDs needed for Software - SUSE for SAP
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 for SAP Applications
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 for SAP HANA
  • Packages: 1041; 1043; 913; 985; 987; 989; 1045; 885; 861
• Add vSphere 6.7 update 2 to the identified packages below
  • Qualified Node packages 1051, SAP packages for VMware, Qualified Node Quads1065 and VMware Presets 1075 and CXL QN package 1111.
• Add Mirrored M.2 price into package 1111
• Add Micron 7.68TB SSD to Qualified Node Packages
• Add IMS Premium Support Flag
• Add 500GB Bandwidth option to package 1111
• Update Single Node Preset 1051 in package 1075 with updated pricing

API

• Fixed lookup of getAllowableSubnets call for Network_Storage
• Immediately completes accounts during the creation process
• Load balancer lookup by name should be case insensitive