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This page lists the release notes from every production version of the Enterprise Service Cloud. The release notes provide information on new features and fixed Issues. You can also check current known Issues.

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Version 206

Release date: 21.03.2024

Services:

  • Swisscom Cloud Portal:
    • Issue Invoice view fixed: Problem related to the links to resources in the invoice view of the "Consumption" tab is fixed.

Version 205

Release date: 07.03.2024

  • There were no new features deployed but our dedicated team has been hard at work behind the scenes to enhance the overall performance and stability of our platform.

Version 204

Release date: 22.02.2024

Services:

  • Log Exposure Service:

  • Kubernetes Environment and Cluster:

    • We are proud to announce that for all existing environments and clusters it is now possible to visualize:
      • Failure Domains: datacenters on which the worker nodes are equally distributed
      • Foundation: name of the management plane stack
      • For more details, please refer to our online documentationopen in new window.
  • Friendly reminder:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. The end-of-life for this Operating System would be on June 30, 2024.
      • We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, before June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 203

Release date: 08.02.2024

Services:

  • Object Storage S3:

    • We are happy to announce that we have developed a way to enforce S3 Encryption on tenant level for new Object Storage S3 deployments: if the feature is active on tenant level, then new Object Storage S3 are by default encrypted and the user does not have to care of explicitly setting the corresponding parameter input. In order to activate this feature, please contact Swisscom.
  • Enabling vTPM option for Templates (Blueprints):

  • Friendly reminder:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. The end-of-life for this Operating System would be on June 30, 2024.
      • We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, before June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 202

Release date: 25.01.2024

Swisscom Cloud Portal:

  • Usability improvements in forms:
    • Improvement of field value synchronization between between ESC Portal and vRA in forms for Swisscom RHEL & Windows blueprints.

Services:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. The end-of-life for this Operating System would be on June 30, 2024.
    • We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, before June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 201

Release date: 11.01.2024

Services:

  • Introducing the new update infrastructure for unmanaged RHEL:
    • The Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI 3.1) currently in use has reached its end of life and has been replaced by Red Hat Satellite.
    • Action required for all unmanaged RHEL customers: to continue consuming RHEL packages from the Swisscom mirror you will need to re-run the registration scriptopen in new window.
    • Please note that the old RHUI infrastructure will be decommissioned on 31 March 2024. Ongoing support for RHUI will be limited to best efforts from now on!

Version 200

Release date: 14.12.2023

  • We did not push any new features to Prod stage, but as usual the teams have worked diligently on platform stabilisation and general improvements. We will give you a break over the holidays and let our ESC elves work silently in the background to ensure smooth operations throughout the festive days. Our next release will reach you on January 11th, 2024.

Version 199

Release date: 30.11.2023

  • There were no new features deployed but our dedicated team has been hard at work behind the scenes to enhance the overall performance and stability of our platform.

Version 198

Release date: 16.11.2023

  • There were no new features deployed but our dedicated team has been hard at work behind the scenes to enhance the overall performance and stability of our platform. As a part of our commitment providing you the best service, we want to friendly remind you that the following two services will be reaching their end-of-life:

Services:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. End-of-life for this Operating System will be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2 will reach the end of extended support in October 2023. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Windows Server prior to October 2023. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 197

Release date: 02.11.2023

Services:

  • File Service Premium:

    • Antivirus can now also be enabled directly during provisioning of an SMB Share. Previously, this was only possible after creating via edit action.This only applies to tenants that have the Antivirus feature enabled. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

    Version 196

Release date: 19.10.2023

  • There were no new features deployed but our dedicated team has been hard at work behind the scenes to enhance the overall performance and stability of our platform. As a part of our commitment providing you the best service, we want to friendly remind you that the following two services will be reaching their end-of-life:

Services:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. End-of-life for this Operating System will be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2 will reach the end of extended support in October 2023. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Windows Server prior to October 2023. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 195

Release date: 05.10.2023

Swisscom Cloud Portal:

  • When filtering "My Items" by service type (e.g. "NFS Share Premium"), all instances belonging to that type are now listed. In the past, nested instances that belonged to a parent were not listed and only accessible by navigating through the parent instances.

Services:

  • Log Exposure Service (LES):
    • The old LES Renew Certificate API was replaced by the LES API
    • The Service Name on log events changes from a LES-specific one to the ESC-wide agreed Cloud Service Name (the name change mapping is available in the service documentation pageopen in new window)
    • the new Certificates page allows self-service management via the cloud portal
    • new vRA Custom Roles for the management of the LES and the upcoming Health Exposure Service (Log Exposure Administrator, Health Exposure Administrator)

Version 194

Release date: 21.09.2023

Services:

  • Object Storage S3:

    • The feature S3 Object Lock is now available, that helps prevent objects from being deleted or overwritten. You can independently control or manage this S3 functionality via the API. The data object versions cannot be changed or deleted during the defined retention period. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • New blueprint MS SQL DBMS DBA 2022:

    • The new blueprint MS SQL DBMS DBA 2022 comes with the same functionality and API structure as the 2019 version of the blueprint. The underlying OS stays Windows 2019 (Managed OS).
  • Windows Managed Services - Provisioning improvement:

    • We have implemented an automatic onboarding feature for non-existent Business Groups during the provisioning process. This enhancement is designed to proactively prevent potential failures that could occur during the provisioning. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Kubernetes Platform Version Upgrade - TKGi 1.15 / Kubernetes 1.24:

    • The Kubernetes platform has been upgraded to TKGi v1.15.6. This introduces Kubernetes 1.24 as well as multiple bug and security vulnerability fixes. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 193

Release date: 07.09.2023

Services:

  • File Service Premium:

    • New parameter "Enable encryption" has been developed for "Add SMB Share Premium" and "Edit SMB Share Premium". For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Managed Services:

    • Provisioning improvement: We have implemented an automatic onboarding feature for non-existent Business Groups during the provisioning process. This enhancement is designed to proactively prevent potential failures that could occur during the provisioning. For further information refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 192

Release date: 24.08.2023

Services:

  • New blueprint MS SQL DBMS 2022:
    • The new blueprint MS SQL DBMS 2022 comes with the same functionality and API structure as the 2019 version of the blueprint. The underlying OS remains Windows 2019 (Managed OS).

Version 191

Release date: 10.08.2023

  • With yesterday's ESC Release v191 we did not push any new feature to Prod stage, but as usual the teams have worked diligently on platform stabilisation and general improvements.

Version 190

Release date: 27.07.2023

Swisscom Cloud Portal:

  • Kubernetes:
    • You can now add and modify labels and taints on your worker node pools.
    • Additionally, we have improved the usability of editing worker node pools. Editing pools is now set as default in the context of the "Edit Cluster" dialog.
  • Design:
    • Various design improvements were overdue, hence we put in some effort to make the search fields, progress bars, and chips more visually appealing and modern.

Services:

  • Managed OS:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. The end-of-life for this Operating System would be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, before June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2:
    • Windows Server 2012 R2 will reach the end of extended support later this year in October. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Windows Server before October 2023. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 189

Release date: 13.07.2023

Services:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. End-of-life for this Operating System will be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2 will reach the end of extended support in October 2023. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Windows Server prior to October 2023. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 188

Release date: 29.06.2023

Swisscom Cloud Portal:

  • MODS (Managed Oracle Database Service) Regular:
    • Fixed an issue in the "Edit CDB" action that leads to the form field for vCPU to be pre-filled with 4 instead of the actual amount.

Services:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. End-of-life for this Operating System will be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2 will reach the end of extended support in October 2023. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Windows Server prior to October 2023. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

Version 187

Release date: 15.06.2023

Services:

  • RHEL & Windows (Managed / Unmanaged):

    • As announced in April 2023, we are going to remove a group of blueprints from the catalog. Existing VM deployments will continue to operate normally. For new VM deployments, use the new generation of these blueprints.
      • New blueprints (available since April 2023):
      • RHEL Managed/Unmanaged:
        • Swisscom RHEL 8
        • Swisscom RHEL 9
      • Windows Managed/Unmanaged:
        • Swisscom Windows 2019
        • Swisscom Windows 2022
      • Deprecated blueprints:
      • Managed Windows 2019: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • Managed Windows 2016: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • Managed RHEL 7: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • Managed RHEL 8: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • RHEL8-U3: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • RHEL7-U4: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • RHEL7-U9: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • WINSRV2016-STD: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
      • WINSRV2019-STD: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The day-2 actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7 has entered the Maintenance Support 2 Phase. The end-of-life for this Operating System will be on June 30, 2024. We strongly encourage you to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to June 2024. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Managed/Unmanaged:

    • As mentioned above the Blueprints will be changed and additionally we have the following updates:
      • Bug fixes
        • Remote Desktop Drive mapping - Drives will newly get mapped after logon.
        • Remote Desktop Password Prompt - Users no longer have to enter their password twice after logging on with passwords sent over the network.
      • Features
        • RSAT Tools - RSAT Tools will newly be installed on all systems.
        • Set CID Status - The Set CID Status day2 action will be available for usage.
  • The below mentioned service namings in the consumption view have been unified so that all ESC service namings are now aligned and consistent:

    • Kubernetes
    • File Service Premium
    • Object Storage S3
    • MODS HighEnd
    • MODS Regular
    • Managed PostgreSQL

Version 186

Release date: 01.06.2023

Portal:

  • Swisscom Blueprints:

    • Order form for Swisscom blueprints has been fixed. Blueprints can be ordered again directly from the portal.
  • Bugfix: Security tab is able to handle 5-digit 'Rule IDs' (Firewall rules and flow logs).

  • Bugfix: Managed VM blueprints handling of required fields fixed.

Services:

  • MSSSQL:

    • We have added a new monitoring option with Telegraf, which now allows you to make custom monitoring and/or visualization of your instances. Please refer to the documentationopen in new window for more details.
    • In the case that Cohesity is already the primary ABB solution, you now have an additional option available with 2nd day action "Run On Demand DB Restore" - restore with rename. Please refer to the documentationopen in new window for more details.
  • Managed OS v2:

    • We are pleased to announce that the password policy has been enhanced. For more details please refer to the official Swisscom ESC documentationopen in new window.
  • The below mentioned service namings in the consumption view have been unified so that all ESC service namings are now aligned and consistent:

    • MODS Highend
    • MODS Regular

Version 185

Release date: 04.05.2023

Services:

  • MODS Regular:

    • We performed the phase-out of "Standard Edition" option. This has the following impacts:
      • in catalog "Managed Oracle CDB (Regular)" parameter "edition" has been hardcoded to value "Enterprise Edition (EE)", so there is no need to be specified.
      • in action "Edit CDB" for parameters "serviceName" and" planName" it's not anymore possible to select any options related to "Standard Edition".
    • Warning: The new blueprint might break your API integration. Please refer to the API documentationopen in new window.
  • MODS High-End:

    • We are pleased to announce that action "Get Credentials" has been harmonized with the setting of MODS-RE: input parameter "username" has been removed. Thanks to refer to the API documentationopen in new window for more details.

Version 184

Release date: 20.04.2023

Services:

  • File Service Premium - NFS:

    • We are pleased to announce the availability of advanced NFS ACL options. These squashing mechanisms allow to customize your NFS share access even further. For more information, please refer to the online documentationopen in new window.

    Version 183

Release date: 06.04.2023

Services:

  • RHEL Unmanaged/Managed:

    • We are pleased to announce the availability of the new blueprint "Swisscom RHEL 9". With this version, we start a new blueprint generation with extended functions. A new blueprint is also available on this basis for RHEL 8. The old blueprints are still available and will be deactivated at a later date. For more information, refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
    • Warning: The new blueprint might break your API integration. Please refer to the API documentationopen in new window.
  • Windows Unmanaged/Managed:

    • We have the pleasure to announce the availability of the new blueprint "Swisscom Windows 2022". With this version, we start a new blueprint generation with extended functions. A new blueprint is also available on this basis for Windows 2019. The old blueprints are still available and will be deactivated at a later date. For more information, refer to the online documentationopen in new window.
    • Warning: The new blueprint might break your API integration. Please refer to the API documentationopen in new window.

Version 182

Release date: 23.03.2023

  • With yesterday's ESC Release v182 we did not push any new feature to Prod stage, but as usual the teams have worked diligently on platform stabilisation and general improvements.

Version 181

Release date: 09.03.2023

Portal:

  • Visual Update Web Components:
    • In light of being in line with the Swisscom Design Policies (SDX), we have updated some of the web components such as buttons, text and icons.

Services:

  • MODS Regular:

    • Releases v19.17.0 and v19.18.0 of the Oracle Enterprise and Standard Editions are now available.
  • Enablement of self-initiated Business Continuity Test on Advanced Service Level VMs:

    • The Business Continuity Test is enabled for the Advanced Service Level VMs as a new day-2 action. During a test, a VM can be moved to its opposite location host to test site failover.
    • Time to wait before returning to the starting location host can be optionally set (automated failback).
    • Note: The user should provide an email address where he/she will be notified of the test stages and when the VM is ready for testing.
  • Managed MS SQL:

    • As announced in June of 2022, all Blueprints with MS SQL 2016 will be removed from the catalog. Existing instances will continue to operate beyond this deadline. Migration to a newer release is recommended. If you'd like to get support for your migration, please do not hesitate to contact your Customer Service Manager.
  • Managed/Unmanaged OS Windows:

    • We are happy to announce the availability of the new blueprint "Swisscom Windows 2022". The rollout starts on internal Swisscom tenants and specific customer tenants and is scheduled for all customer tenants on 23.03.2023. With this version, we start a new blueprint generation with extended functions. A new blueprint is also available on this basis for Windows 2019. The old blueprints are still available and will be deactivated at a later date.

Version 180

Release date: 23.02.2023

Services:

  • MODS-High End (HE):

  • MODS-HE Lockdown Profile is available as input parameter for day-2 actions "Create PDB", "Edit PDB", and "Clone PDB". Please make sure to update the corresponding API calls according to the Swisscom ESC Documentation.

  • Managed Kubernetes:

    • Change of the container runtime on the nodes from docker engine to containers:

      • All newly created clusters will directly use containers. All existing clusters will be migrated to containers on update/upgrade. The change of the container runtime should be transparent for the workload. Should any issues occur, there is a mechanism to roll back to docker for selected clusters.
    • Migration of the persistent volumes from VCP to vSphere CSI Driver:

      • VCP is the legacy in-tree storage driver by VMware that will get deprecated. All newly created clusters will directly use CSI. All existing clusters will be migrated to CSI on update/upgrade. All existing persistent volumes will be migrated to vSphere CSI Driver transparently. Any new persistent volumes have to be created with the new "caas-persistent-storage" storage class. Once all clusters are migrated to CSI, the new "caas-persistent-storage" storage class will be set as default.
    • Encrypting ETCD by default for all newly created clusters:

      • The encryption key is managed on provider side.
    • Important: The changes on Managed Kubernetes will be pushed to PROD on March 2nd, 2023.

  • As announced in June of 2022, all Blueprints with MS SQL 2016 will be removed from the catalog. Existing instances will continue to operate beyond this deadline. Migration to a newer release is recommended. If you'd like to get support for your migration, please do not hesitate to contact your Customer Service Manager.

Version 179

Release date: 09.02.2023

  • With yesterday's ESC Release v179 we did not push any new feature to Prod stage, but as usual the teams have worked diligently on platform stabilisation and general improvements.

Version 178

Release date: 26.01.2023

Portal:

  • New default filter: In order to improve the performance of the requests page we have added a new default filter option to show the requests of the past six months only by default.

Version 177

Release date: 12.01.2023

  • With yesterday's ESC Release v177 we did not push any new feature to Prod stage, but as usual the teams have worked diligently on platform stabilisation and general improvements.

Version 176

Release date: 15.12.2022

Portal:

  • Consumption tab: we have adjusted the information in the consumption tab to make it possible for you to see the VAT (MWSt) information.
  • Kubernetes Clusters: The missing visibility of the general tab of the Kubernetes Clusters has been fixed for users with limited entitlements.

Services:

  • Managed Oracle Regular:
  • We are happy to announce the Release of the Oracle Version 19.16.

Version 175

Release date: 01.12.2022

  • We have not shipped new customer-facing features this time, but the team has worked on infrastructure lifecycle and performance optimizations, further usability improvements, and general bug fixing.

Version 174

Release date: 17.11.2022

  • We have not shipped new customer-facing features this time, but the team has worked on infrastructure lifecycle and performance optimizations, further usability improvements, and general bug fixing.

Version 173

Release date: 03.11.2022

Services:

  • MODS RE:
    • We've adapted the existing Password Verify Function. Please refer to our documentationopen in new window for details. That change will affect existing and new deployments.

Version 172

Release date: 20.10.2022

Portal:

  • We have fixed the quick jump search so that you no longer have to worry about case sensitivity when you want to do a quick search.

Version 171

Release date: 06.10.2022

Services:

  • Legacy S3 phase-out:

    • The legacy S3 endpoint has been phased out from the following actions: Import OVA from S3, Export MSSQL database, Import MSSQL database, Upload files to MSSQL and Mass Migrate MSSQL databases.
    • Please refer to our online documentationopen in new window for Object Storage S3 features.
  • Managed Oracle Database Service Regular (MODS RE):

    • Fixing an issue where the upgrade fails in rare cases.
  • Platform:

  • Image Based Backup:

    • "Restore to new" action is now only possible in Powered Off state. Taking the VM online has to be done in a separate step.

Version 170

Release date: 22.09.2022

  • We have not shipped new customer-facing features this time, but the team has worked on infrastructure lifecycle and performance optimizations, further usability improvements, and general bug fixing.

Version 169

Release date: 08.09.2022

Services:

  • Object Storage S3:
    • We added a "Shared with Swisscom" indicator on the detail view of S3 Instances, showing you whether an S3 Instance has been selected to be shared with Swisscom or not.

Platform:

  • Image Based Backup:
    • We have updated the backup retention policies. You now have the option to choose from different policies, ranging from 7 up to 365 days of backup retention. Please refer to the documentationopen in new window.

Version 168

Release date: 25.08.2022

Portal:

  • We managed to improve the loading speed of fetching non-VM based deployments and various related actions significantly.
  • Fixed issue with SPDN ip consumption report and checks

Services:

  • Managed PostgreSQL Database Service:
    • We have moved the Upgrade Instance day 2 action from the Instance level up to Container level. For more information, refer to the documentationopen in new window. Important: This might break your API integration.

Version 167

Release date: 11.08.2022

Services

  • MODS Regular:
    • Release v19.15.0 of the Oracle Enterprise and Standard Editions are now available.

Version 166

Release date: 28.07.2022

Services

  • Managed RHEL:
    • We have implemented the following changes to the blueprints of Managed RHEL 7 and 8:

Version 165

Release date: 14.07.2022

Services

  • Managed PostgreSQL Database Service (MPDS):

    • You now have two new day2 actions available: Max. Instance Count and Manage Storage; the latter also lets you enable auto extension of storage.

    Platform

  • Image Based Backup Creation (IBB)

    • By selecting Create Backup you now have the option to create additional ad-hoc image-based backups. For more information, please refer to the documentationopen in new window.

Version 164

Release date: 30.06.2022

Services

  • Object Storage S3:
    • As a result of this week's deployment, you can now see the storage being used per S3 instance. Please note that the synchronization might take up to one hour.
  • Import OVA from S3:
    • You can now use Object Storage S3 instances created on ESC for Importing OVA imagesopen in new window . The legacy S3 bucket provided for tenants can still be used at this time. However, we will announce its phaseout later this year. Important: This might break your API integration.
  • Important Announcement on MS SQL:
    • With MS SQL 2016, 2017 and 2019, the Enterprise Service Cloud currently offers three major releases of MS SQL. To be able to still offer new major releases in the future, MS SQL 2016 will be removed from the ESC catalogue on January 1, 2023. Existing instances will continue to operate beyond this deadline. Migration to a newer release is recommended. If you'd like to get support for your migration, please do not hesitate to contact your Customer Service Manager.

Version 163

Release date: 16.06.2022

Portal

  • With the intent to improve the usability in my items, it is now possible for you to access status information and actions directly from the graph view.
  • Fixed 'Sorting by Date' issue under My Items and Requests page

Services

  • Object Storage S3 instances:
    • We have added a "Shared with Swisscom" option to give Swisscom management access. This option is part of the upcoming feature to import OVA images via ESC S3 instances.
    • We have also added an "Enable Encryption" option. This enables encryption on namespace level.
    • See more details in the documentationopen in new window.

Version 162

Release date: 02.06.2022

Portal

  • Oracle resource report:
    • In "My items" you can now go directly from the report to the corresponding CDB instance, as it was already the case for the other resource reports.
  • Consumption:
    • We have by default minimised both the services and product types overview tiles with the intent that you can now see more information on the screen. No worries - if you need them, the tiles are always expandable again by clicking on the corresponding chevron.

Version 161

Release date: 19.05.2022

Portal

  • "Back to top" button:
    • From now on, when you scroll down on any portal page, you will find a "back to top" button in the bottom right corner. By clicking on the button, you will be redirected to the top of the page.

Services

  • Managed MS SQL:
    • Improved version: Object Storage S3 instances created on ESC can now be used for ex-/importingopen in new window a database. The legacy S3 bucket provided for tenants can still be used at this time. However, we will announce its phaseout later this year.
    • This feature is applied for Export MS SQL Database, Import MS SQL Database, Mass Migrate MS SQL Databases and Upload Files to MS SQL.
    • Warning: This might break your API integration. Please refer to the API documentationopen in new window.

Version 160

Release date: 05.05.2022

Portal

  • My Items graph view:
    • The graph view for items with child elements now visualizes the dependencies between parent and child elements. (Available in the following views: Services, S3 Instance, NFS container, SMB container, Managed PostgreSQL container, File service premium). See documentationopen in new window for more details.

Services

  • File Service Premium iSCSI:

    • Credentials must now be obtained via "Get Credentials" day-2 action on an iSCSI initiator. Warning: This might break your API integration. Please refer to the API documentationopen in new window.
  • Kubernetes

    • Improved error handling on Environment creation.

Version 159

Release date: 21.04.2022

Portal

  • Catalog, provisioning services:
    • Between Business Group selection and provisioning item configuration can be switched back with new 'back' button.

Services

  • Object Storage S3:
    • Credentials are now to be retrieved via the new "Get S3 Credentials" action on an S3 User.
  • Virtual Machines:
  • Kubernetes:
    • Removed /31 and /32 Net Masks from the VipPool size dropdown.
  • MODS Regular:
    • Fixed a validation error for timestamps in the "Clone PDB" Action.
    • Improved description in "Get Credentials" action to match RegExp.
  • MODS Highend:
    • Fixed a validation error for timestamps in the "Clone PDB" Action.

Version 158

Release date: 24.03.2022

Portal

  • Requests tab:
    • A new filter option has been added which makes it possible to filter by submitter. Just start typing a name and you will already see propositions to choose from.
  • Reports:
    • Smart Report shows the consumption of the resources and its configuration changes. Now you can also see the costs per row of the report.
  • Fixed layout issues with side navigation.

Services

  • Image Based Backup:
    • As of 1st April, the billing model of Image Based Backup will be changed to GB used (from the perspective of the backup SW).
  • File Service Premium:
    • Optimized validation of new Storage Size
    • Improved validation of ACL form input
    • Added RegExp checks when calling various actions via API
    • Optimized appearance of file service blueprints and actions

Misc

  • Fixed NSX rule issue when creating a Business Group.

Version 157

Release date: 10.03.2022

Portal

  • Consumption page:
    • The tile entries (top 5 entries) are now clickable and navigate directly to their details view.
  • New report:
    • On the Reports page you can see the new Oracle Resource report. This report provides an indicative overview of how many Oracle Container Databases, associated Pluggable Databases and resources are provisioned in which configuration.
      • This report can be downloaded as a CSV file.
      • The lock symbol of the PDBs indicates whether tablespace encryption is activated or not.

Services

  • Managed PostgreSQL & Oracle Database Service:
    • We added a warning message during CDB/container creation if no backup option is selected.

Version 156

Release date: 24.02.2022

Portal

  • Fixed jump from Patching Report to My Item representation.

Services

  • Backup & Restore:

Version 155

Release date: 11.02.2022

Portal

  • Copy VM name to clipboard:
    • In My Items you are now able to copy the item name to the clipboard, simply hover over the name and click on the copy to clipboard icon.
  • New Managed OS Patching report:
    • In the Reports tab you can find a new report which shows the last patching date and the compliance for a Managed OS. This report you can also download as a CSV file.
  • Fixed Layout issue on Snapshot selection modal.
  • Fixed issue with Quick search result representations in Citrix / SMCA.
  • Fixed UI issues in case no Uplink Topologies are available.

Services

  • Kubernetes:
    • Availability of 3-datacenter infrastructure: All newly created clusters in new K8s environments will be deployed on the new consolidated infrastructure, spanning over 3 datacenters. This will provide a higher level of redundancy. The "Details" tab on Cluster-Level indicates for all clusters, whether they are already on a 3-site setup or on the old 2-site setup. A migration path for existing clusters will be provided at a later point in time.

Version 154

Release date: 27.01.2022

Portal

  • MyItems CSV download:
    • You can now download MyItems as a CSV file.
  • Fixed Issues:
    • Issue with VM action "show properties" fixed.
    • Issue with missing units fixed in consumption page.
    • Issue with Firewall page filter, single selection after using 'all' firewall section option fixed.
    • Issue with Quick jump case sensitive fixed.

Services

  • Managed Oracle Database Service High-End:

    • The Clone PDB action has been enhanced and now includes the new clone types "restore" and "snapshot".
  • Managed PostgreSQL Database Service:

    • Managed PostgreSQL Database Service is now available on ESC. Functions for creating, editing & deleting Postgre containers and Postgre cluster instances are available. Furthermore options for backup and backup data encryption are available. Functions for restore, restart and upgrade of an Postgre Cluster Instance are also available. Please refer to our User Guideopen in new window for more information.

Misc

  • Fixed issue with Add View Backup Status to managed services entitlement
  • Fixed issue with spelling of technical contact descriptions in the blueprint templates

Version 153

Release date: 13.01.2022

Portal

  • Preserve filter settings:
    • You can now disable "Owned By Me" from the default filter option. Simply disable it under Filter Settings in the User Settings.

Services

  • Managed Oracle Regular & High-End:
    • The format of the Clone Timestamp Input field has been changed to string/UTC.
  • Important:
    • If you were using the Day-2 Actions "Clone PDB" or "Restore PDB" via API, make sure to change the format accordingly. Please refer to the API Documentationopen in new window for detailed information.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Issue with the reordering of the menu items after a browser restart is fixed.
  • Portal - Create Service Network Blueprint form issue fixed.

Version 152

Release date: 16.12.2021

Portal

  • Configurable navigation items order:
    • On all pages, you can now change the order of the navigation items on the left side: Click on the gear wheel icon at the bottom left to unlock the order, then arrange as you wish and click again the same gear icon to lock the new order.
    • The top item will also be the default page shown when clicking on the corresponding top menu tab.
  • Extended Firewall filter:
    • It is now possible to select all Firewall Sections in the Firewall filter (if the number of Firewalls is less than 25).

Services

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Consumption reporting: Fixed date range filter.
  • Portal - Create firewall rule: Extended tooltip on setting index number.

Version 151

Release date: 02.12.2021

We have not shipped new customer-facing features this time, but the team has worked on infrastructure lifecycle and performance optimizations, further usability improvements, and general bug fixing.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed indication of invalid data under Fileservices Premium, NFS advanced tab.
  • Portal - Fixed issue with credentials creation action for Kubernetes.
  • Portal - Searching for BGs is not case sensitiv anymore under My Items, filter by 'Business Groups'.
  • Services - Optimized the load time of the Restore File Or Folder day-2 operation by 30-35%.
  • Services - Fixed issue when setting PKS hostname limitation on vRO level and removing from vRA level.

Version 150

Release date: 18.11.2021

Services

  • MODS Regular:
    • Added new Clone Type "Restore" to the "Clone PDB" day 2 action. This new type allows cross-container cloning of any PDB to any point-in-time based on the source PDB backup. Hereopen in new window you can find more information.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed index number validation in Firewall section of Security Tab
  • Portal - Fixed scrolling with multiple FW sections in Firewall section of Security Tab
  • Portal - Fixed table headers issue in Firewall section of Security Tab
  • Portal - Fixed 'advanced tab' issue under My Items / File service Premium / NFS share
  • Services - Fixed the issue with the PKS hostname by setting limitation on vRO level and removing it from vRA level

Version 149

Release date: 04.11.2021

Portal

  • User Experience:
    • In the cost consumption page, the service drilldown items are now displayed with their respective icons.

Services

  • Managed RHEL:
    • The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository is not any more part of the automated patching process on Managed RHEL. This repository does not fall under Red Hat's Production Support Scope of Coverage.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed the issue with the view toggle buttons in service details which were cut off
  • Portal - Maintenance is highlighted
  • Portal - Fixed the issue with the error messages which were not closable when right side menu was expanded

Version 148

Release date: 21.10.2021

Services

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed Blueprint day2 action "Restore File or Folder".
  • Portal - Fixed performance issue in NSX firewall section page in case of large number of FW sections or too many FW rules in FW section.

Version 147

Release date: 07.10.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Supported Browsers: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are supported for the ESC Portal.
  • As announced in the Release Notes (v133) in March, Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft. Functionalities in the ESC Portal are only available to a limited extent with Internet Explorer.

Services

  • Kubernetes Cluster
    • OpenID Connect (OIDC) user authentication can now be configured using the Day 2 Action "Edit Cluster".
  • New Service: Object Storage S3
    • "Object Storage S3" instances can now be ordered through the Enterprise Service Cloud Catalog. See the newly added S3 documentationopen in new window for more information.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed error with the missing deployment description of the destroy confirmation modal.

Version 146

Release date: 23.09.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • NSX usability improvements: The NSX Firewall sections containing all firewall rules are now visible in one view.

Services

  • MODS Highend Service
    • New Day 2 Actions for MODS high-end: "Mount NFS Share"

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed error when opening details view on deleted items in 'requests' page.
  • Portal - Fixed issue with select date range function in Cost consumption view

Version 145

Release date: 09.09.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Reporting page: Action to jump from reporting page to 'my items' page if resource is still active
  • Cost consumption new machine drilldown

Services

  • IaaS Virtual Machine: Day2 Action Refresh Restore File Or Folder (Single File Restore)
    • We improved the Virtual Machine Service by refreshing the Day2 Action for Single File Restore. You are now able to restore single files or folders from existing image-based backups via the Day2 Action "Restore File Or Folder"open in new window (formerly known as "Recover Files Or Folders").

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Added missing icons for dynamic-types

Version 144

Release date: 26.08.2021

Services

  • For the MODS Highend Service:

    • New Day 2 Actions for MODS Highend: "Clone PDB" and "Restore PDB"
      • The PDB can be clonedopen in new window (a new PDB is created) as a 1:1 full clone of the master PDB until its last committed transaction.
      • The PDB can be restoredopen in new window (existing PDB will be overwritten) to any point-in-time within the retention period. Currently, the retention period is 11 days. The timestamp must not point into the future and must not point back more than 11 days. Otherwise an error message will be returned. If you try to restore from a timestamp without an available backup, the restore will fail.
  • For File Service Premium:

    • File Service "Details" tab (for NFS and SMB containers) shows additional fields with remaining allocatable storage size ("RemainingAllocatableStorage") in GiB.
  • For Virtual Machine:

    • Upgrade VM Hardware Version: With this new Day 2 Action you can upgrade the virtual hardware version to the latest supported version, before it is being triggered by Swisscom. Click hereopen in new window to read more about it.
  • Managed OS: Test routines (Windows/Red Hat Linux) for Return to Full Managed Mode

    • Bringing back your VM from Temp Admin Mode or Customer Maintenance Mode to Full Managed Mode can be hindered when the service standards or compliance rules are violated. Before mode changing, you may use our test routines (Windows/Red Hat Linux) to quickly get a clear view about compliancy:
      • easy to use
      • fast in processing
      • shows you possible mode change hinders to be dissolved
    • Details about Test routines: hereopen in new window
    • Return to Full Managed Mode: hereopen in new window

Version 143

Release date: 12.08.2021

We have not shipped new customer-facing features this time, but the team has worked on infrastructure lifecycle and performance optimizations, further usability improvements, and general bug fixing.

Version 142

Release date: 29.07.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Usability improvements
    • For all tables following has been improved:
      • The table header is fixed when scrolling, therefore it is always shown.
      • When hiding certain columns in a table, the view is saved per user and will not be lost when changing the tab or login out.

Services

  • New blueprints

    • Managed MS SQL DBMS 2019

    • Managed MS SQL DBMS DBA Mode 2019

      The two new blueprints have the same functionality and API structure as the 2017 version of the blueprints. However, they come with MS SQL 2019 instead of MS SQL 2017 preinstalled. The underlying OS changes to Windows 2019 (Managed OS).

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed Request page, in some cases the vm description is not shown.

Version 141

Release date: 15.07.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Security pages usability improvements
    • For Services, IP Sets, Security Groups, Security Tags:
      • You can now see an improved filter with enhanced capabilities.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed caching issue: double entry for vm in my-items and request view.
  • Portal - Fixed column 'protocol' for 'file service premium' in my items page.
  • Portal - Improved 'my items' behaviour in slow environments.
  • Services - iSCSI LUN: Show related Initiator Group also as Name - iSCSI LUN DT changed.
  • Services - Fix incomplice ACL validation for action add nfs share.
  • Services - Changed description form GB to GiB - Add NFS/SMB Container.
  • Services - Fixed error when creating iSCSI LUN without LUN ID.
  • Services - Fix missing file - iSCSI LUN: Show related Initiator Group also as Name - iSCSI LUN DT changed.

Version 140

Release date: 01.07.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Selectable landing page:
    • You can now choose the default landing page that is shown after you login. Simply select your preferred landing page in the User Settings.
  • Configurable My Items order:
    • On the My Items page you can now change the order of the navigation items on the left side: Click on the gear wheel icon at the bottom left to unlock the order, then arrange as you wish and click again the same gear icon to lock the new order.
    • The top item will also be the default page shown when clicking on the My Items tab.

Services

  • New Blueprint:

    • RHEL8-U3
  • Deprecated Blueprints:

    • RHEL8-U1: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. All existing VM functionalities remain available.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Tenant caching issue: Cache is properly cleared after logout.
  • Portal - Fixed issues regarding configurable table columns.

Version 139

Release date: 17.06.2021

Services

  • For File Service Premium:

    • Improved the layout of all File Service Premium GUI elements (NFS/SMB Container & Shares).
  • New Service: iSCSI

    • You can now order iSCSI as an additional storage protocol option within your File Service Premium. Please refer to the ESC Documentation for more details.

Platform

  • New User Role: NSX Firewall Read Only
    • The NSX Firewall Read-only User role allow the user to see (read-only) NSX assets like firewalls, IP Sets and Security groups without be able to modify them. You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissions.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed modal label on security tag edit modal.
  • Services - Small improvements to 'How to mount?' example command on NFS Shares.
  • Services - Changed all descriptions of "GB" to the correct "GiB".

Version 138

Release date: 03.06.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • My Items cache:

    • My Items elements are loaded from a cache (performance improvement).
  • Display columns File Service:

    • Several display improvements in My Items for Files Services (NFS Container, NFS Shares, iSCSI Container).

Services

  • For MODS Highend:
    • Edit PDB supports now modification of Security Shapes (after PDB has been provisioned)

Version 137

Release date: 20.05.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Catalog caching:

    • Catalog items are loaded from a cache (performance improvement).
  • Manage Columns:

    • In the Swisscom Cloud Portal you can now hide columns in tables. In order to manage columns, click on the gear wheel icon (upper right in table), uncheck any column(s) you wish and click "Confirm" to show your selection.

Services

  • MODS Highend:
    • Upgrade CDB: In the Swisscom Cloud Portal you can now upgrade CDBs regarding to your major versions with this new Day 2 Action.
  • MODS Regular:
    • Renamed field "License" to "Edition" in "Create CDB" (Minor change to API, please refer to the API Documentation)

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Security page, Flow Logs: Jump from flow log entry to firewall rule in tenant provider section possible.
  • Portal - Consumption 'Smart Report', show time range from start of month until end of month. No overflow to following month anymore.
  • Services - Fixed "Known Issue" for Unmanaged and Managed Windows Server 2019 - Reconfigure vCPU.
  • Services - Fix for cleaning up deleted VMs.
  • Services - Renamed field "License" to "Edition" in "Create CDB" (Minor change to API, please refer to the API Documentation)
  • Services - Old "DynDBv3" blueprints & actions being decomissioned

Version 136

Release date: 06.05.2021

Services

  • MS SQL:

    • Additional new SQL collation (Latin1_General_BIN) can be chosen as collation option during the SQL blueprint deployment process. The BIN collation is case sensitive.
    • For MS SQL Blueprints, the new "Change vCPU Cores" Day 2 Action can be used to set the Cores per Socket Ratio. This action is not visible in the Portal until the VM is powered off. Cores per Socket Ratio setting makes no performance impact but helps with optimal resource usage when deploying SQL Standard Edition.
  • Kubernetes Cluster:

    • We have improved the user experience for Kubernetes Cluster. Various small labels have been corrected/polished. Additionally we have added a functionality that customers have the ability to define cluster owners via portal.

Platform

  • SLES Blueprint in Swisscom Standard Catalog:
    • Due to the low demand, SLES blueprint templates will no longer be available in the standard catalog and phased out by October 31st 2021. Customers still have the possibility to import OVA templates into their catalog and therefore instantiate new SLES VMs with its full functionalities..
    • Important: All existing VMs that have been created from the Swisscom Standard Catalog SLES blueprint will need to be deleted by the end of October 2021.
    • You can find a list of currently provided operating system versions in the user guide.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed PKS detail view (add Business Group name).
  • Services - Fixed "Known Issue" for limit of max. 4 Sockets and/or 24 Cores for Managed DBMS. This can be now configured with a new day-2 action for Managed MSSQL.

Version 135

Release date: 22.04.2021

Services

  • Kubernetes Environment:
    • A new Day 2 Action "Show IP Allocations" has been added, listing all IP allocations for a specific Kubernetes environment.
  • Kubernetes Cluster:
    • The Day 2 Action "Cluster Upgrade" has been renamed to "Initiate Cluster Upgrade" and its UX has been improved.

Platform

  • Disable access to legacy ESC IDP:
    • With the successful migration of all federated ESC tenants to OneIDB we are going to disable access to the legacy IDP instance identity.entcloud.swisscom.com. This action has no direct customer impact. Since this old endpoint is not needed anymore, we recommend our customers to update their firewall rules for ESC CMP access accordingly: identity.entcloud.swisscom.com 138.190.87.5 TCP 443

Fixed Issues

Version 134

Release date: 15.04.2021

Services

  • New Blueprint
    • MS SQL 2019 (same functionality as MS SQL 2016)

Platform

  • vRA API changes after VMware vRA Hotfix 10 (HF10):

    • The request payload for vRA API requests must not use the "provider-" prefix for attribute names inside the payload. Please adjust your vRA API clients and remove all "provider-" prefixes in the corresponding request payloads when invoking vRA API actions. In order to easily identify the API endpoints that require the correction, please consult the online documentation and in particular the API calls that are labeled "Recently Updated".
  • New Data Protection Solution rollout:

    • Starting with this release, we are shipping a new data protection solution. The existing actions namely "Restore Data", "Restore to new" and "View Backup Status" are going to appear as "(legacy)" in their respective names. Example: "Restore Data (legacy)". Please adjust your API implementation if you are using vRA API to perform restore actions.

Version 133

Release date: 25.03.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Supported Browsers:
    • Chrome and Microsoft Edge with its latest two versions are supported for the ESC Portal.
    • Internet Explorer will no longer be supported by Microsoft as of August 2021. IE can still be used for the ESC Portal but the UI might look differently compared to the supported browsers.

Version 132

Release date: 11.03.2021

No new customer facing features

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed missing properties in requests page for Oracle MODS / CDB.
  • Portal - Refined service detail page for Kubernetes (my items).
  • Portal - Jump from consumption page to my item page on VM level (action menu entry).
  • Portal - Fixed My Items VM overview Business Group column is not updated and is showing wrong BG info.
  • Services - Fixed Allow deployment renaming for MSSQL AlwaysOn day-2 actions

Version 131

Release date: 25.02.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Performance:

    • We improved the overall portal performance by implementing a better caching mechanism and reducing the number of backend calls.
  • Consumption view:

    • We improved the filtering by adding new capability for:
      • Business group
      • Service
      • Product Types

Services

  • For the MODS Regular Service:
    • Added "Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2)" to our Managed Oracle Database service. (Please note: If you use our MODS Regular services via API, please be aware that there are breaking changes to the API also for the Enterprise Edition. Please refer to the API documentation for Catalog Requestsopen in new window and for Day 2 Actionsopen in new window).

Platform

  • New XaaS blueprint:
    • As informed in the last Release Notes v130, we introduced the new "Custom Content" service catalog including your custom items (such as imported VMs).
    • Now you can find a new XaaS blueprint "Manage Custom Catalog Items". This blueprint allows users to change the catalog assignment of their own catalog items.
    • The new blueprint is available as part of the "Tenant Services".
    • Only users with the Tenant Manager role can see "Tenant Services". You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissionsopen in new window

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed presentation of big numbers in cost consumption pages.
  • Portal - Changed notification bar for portal updates.
  • Portal - Fixed GUI issue after selection a "Size of Network" while ordering a Kubernetes Environment

Version 130

Release date: 12.02.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Service Catalog Adjustments:

    • The service catalog File Services will be renamed to Storage Services.
    • Alignment of the ESC standard catalog on every tenant. The ESC standard service catalog will contain from now on only items officially provided by Swisscom.
      • Custom catalog items (for example imported VMs) will be assigned to the 'Custom Content' service catalog. Existing custom catalog items will be automatically moved to this newly created catalog.
      • 'Custom Content' will be automatically entitled and your custom item will be available as always.
  • Optimized Filter Concept:

    • For My Items, Requests and Reports you can now see an optimized filter concept. In order to filter the list you can click on "Filters" to open a new window, where you can select the desired filters. When you confirm by clicking "Apply", you will see all active filters as "chips" next to "Filters".
    • Only authorized users can see the Reports tab. You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissions

Fixed Issues

Version 129

Release date: 28.01.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • New Tab in My Items:

    • If you choose a VM under My Items, you will see a new tab called "Consumption", which shows consumption charts for that single machine.
    • Only authorised users can see the Consumption tab. You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissions
  • New Action in Requests:

    • If you are on the Requests tab, you can choose under "Actions" if you want to "Navigate to Item" (in the same tab) or now you can also choose to "Open Item in New Tab". This way you do not loose the current view in Requests.

Last Reminder: New S3 Clean-up Policy (active as of yesterday)

  • For each ESC tenant a S3 bucket is available to which you can upload VM templates and import them from there into the ESC (see also OVA Import). Until today there was no storage limit on the S3 bucket.
    This is an information message

    Please note!

    We would like to inform again that from yesterday 28.01.21 we have activated the new S3 clean-up policy that automatically deletes files after 30 days. So please make sure that your persistent data is migrated as of today.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Updated Cost- consumption disclaimer, added information about excluded VAT.

Version 128

Release date: 14.01.2021

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • New Consumption page:

    • The updated Consumption page shows an overview of all indicative costs of cloud resources used for a time period. Choose any item to dive into the consumption details and indicative costs of different product groups, business groups or services. Consumption is now structured into Tenant, Business Groups, Product Types, Services and Smart Reports.
    • Only authorized users can see the Consumption tab. You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissions
  • New Managed OS report:

    • You can find the new page Managed OS Machine Status under "Reports". This new report lists all Managed OS VMs and shows the managed mode "status".
    • Only users with the Compliance Manager role can see the Reports tab. You can find role recommendations here: Roles and Permissions

Platform

  • SUSE Linux blueprints:
    • SUSE Linux blueprints will no longer be available over the Swisscom Standard Catalogue from January 2021. If you wish to use these blueprints in the future, they can be made available in your own cloud catalogue via OVA Import.
  • Reminder: New S3 Clean-up Policy:
    • We would like to inform that from 28.01.21 we will activate a new policy that automatically deletes files after 30 days. Please make sure that your persistent data is migrated until 28.01.21.

Fixed Issues

  • Services - Removed default value from service name on day "2 Clone PDB"

Version 127

Release date: 17.12.2020

Services

  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

    • The maximum patching suspension time was changed from 60 to 120 days.
  • For the MODS Regular Service:

    • New Day 2 Action "Clone PDB": This new action enables customers to clone a pluggable database, either as a full 1:1 clone or a storage-friendly snapshot clone.

Platform

  • Set IP on VM reconfigure:

    • New Day 2 Action "Change IPs": We introduced this new feature which allows to change the IP addresses for each vNIC post provisioning. The IP address has to be part of the same subnet as provided from the attached network (possible ranges are shown when a net is selected). This action is only available when the VM is powered off.
  • New S3 Clean-up Policy:

    • For each ESC tenant a S3 bucket is available to which you can upload VM templates and import them from there into the ESC (see also Import OVA). Until today there was no storage limit on the S3 bucket.
    This is an information message

    Please note!

    We would like to inform that from 28.01.21 we will activate a new policy that automatically deletes files after 30 days. So please make sure that your persistent data is migrated until 28.01.21.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Security page / flow log: Jump directly to firewall rule configuration entry or open fw config in new browser tab
  • Portal - Issue that invisible catalog form entries and day-2 action form entries show up for a short time fixed

Version 126

Release date: 03.12.2020

Services

  • For Managed MS SQL:

    • New Oracle client version 12.1 for Linked DBs available (in addition to 11.2 and 12.2 already available in past releases)
  • For the MODS High End Service:

    • New Security Shape configuration option for PDBs via Create/Edit PDB: Security shapes revoke a set of package permissions (e.g. UTL_SMTP, UTL_TCP, etc.) from PUBLIC schema in Oracle that can be an issue from a security point of view.
  • Blueprint Update

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4: Due to the End of Support and therefore resulting security risks, this blueprint is not available anymore underCatalog. Day 2 Actions are still enabled for existing instances.
    • Windows Server 2012 R2: Due to the availability of Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, it is no longer possible to order new Windows Server 2012 R2 instances. Day 2 Actions are still enabled for existing instances.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Firewall rules page.
  • Portal - Searching firewall rules by id, port, source and destination.
  • Services - MODS RE Adding default value for plan mode, removing national characterset type and further cleanups
  • Services - MODS RE Adding default values/required fields for plan mode
  • Services - MODS RE Update of the regular expression for serivce names in PDB. Now we allow: - and _, as well as more than one sub domain

Version 125

Release date: 19.11.2020

Services

  • For File Service Premium:

    • You can now enable Antivirus on SMB shares over Edit SMB Share Premium.

    The Antivirus needs to be activated on the tenant beforehand by Swisscom. If you want to activate this service, you can order it by opening a Service Request.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Renaming 'Blueprint' to 'Service'

Version 124

Release date: 05.11.2020

Services

  • IPAM Migration for File Services and Kubernetes

    In release v121, we announced that Managed Oracle Database Services (MODS High End, MODS regular) were being integrated into the IP address management (IPAM) solution of the Enterprise Service Cloud.

    In this release (v124), the blueprints of the following services are also being covered with the IPAM integration including integration/migration of all existing instances to allow smooth transition:

    • Enterprise Kubernetes
    • File Service Premium

    For existing service instances, we are going to migrate the currently used IP ranges into the IPAM management. This migration will be done by Swisscom. In case of any issues (e.g. overlapping IP ranges) the Swisscom support team will contact you to resolve the appearing conflict.

  • IPAM - New Blueprint:

    Under Catalog you will find the new blueprint in the Network Services category.

    • Show Service Network Usage: It is now possible to display which IP addresses are currently unassigned and can be used for new deployments. This functionality is mainly relevant for customers working with static IP address assignments. Please note: Affiliation of IP addresses to IP aggregates need to be considered.
  • For IPAM and Kubernetes:

    • New Dynamic Mask Handling based on selected aggregate: When selecting an aggregate, the options for network size (in the dropdown mask) will be calculated automatically and shown using a new mechanism called dynamic mask handling.
  • For the MODS Regular Service:

    • New Security Shape configuration option for PDBs via Create/Edit PDB: Security shapes revoke a set of package permissions (e.g. UTL_SMTP, UTL_TCP, etc.) from PUBLIC schema in Oracle that can be an issue from a security point of view.
  • For MS SQL Always-On:

    • New Day 2 Action "On Demand SQL Restore (AO)": This new action enables customers to restore a database running in an Always On availability group.
  • For Managed OS:

    • New property "Scc.Ms.TempAdminEnabledDate": This property stores the timestamp when entering into tempadmin-mode, which means you can track how long the VM is in tempadmin-mode.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed font colour in several pages

Version 123

Release date: 22.10.2020

  • Platform - Fix for listing F5 pool members

Version 122

Release date: 22.10.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Firewall Rules:
    • The Rule ID for each Firewall Rule is now displayed in the Firewall Rules Overview. This will help to match flow logs with firewall rules.

Services

  • Kubernetes Update:

    • Selection of Load Balancer size during Cluster creation: During Kubernetes Cluster creation you can now choose between Medium and Large Load Balancer. With this option it is possible to handle traffic according to the amount of applications running on your Cluster.

    • Configuration of Customer Firewall in Edit Cluster Action: With the Customer Firewall extension you are now enabled to define an allow-list for IP ranges, protocols and modes on an individual cluster level.

    • Improvements on IP Usage visibility on Kubernetes Environment Level: To enable for transparency on the Kubernetes Environment level, we have introduced the IP usage visibility feature. With this feature it is now possible to see the detailed amount of IPs used through Clusters on a specific Kubernetes Environment.

    • Improvements on Load Balancer Usage visibility on Kubernetes Environment Level: Analogous to the IP usage feature it is now possible to see how many remaining Load Balancer are able to deploy with new Clusters.

Fixed Issues

  • Platform - VM storage calculation for billing

Version 121

Release date: 24.09.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Firewall Sections Deletion:

    To prevent deletion of Firewall Sections including their Firewall Rules, it is now only possible to delete a Firewall Section if all the Firewall Rules are deleted first. You will see a notification to do so in case the Firewall Section is not empty yet.

  • VM Reconfiguration Confirmation:

    When a VM is reconfigured and the reconfiguration needs a restart of the VM, the user will need to confirm the restart in the new reconfiguration confirmation.

Services

  • New Day 2 Action on Managed MS SQL Always On:

    Run On Demand SQL Backup (AO): This action can be used to create On Demand backups of databases running on Always On Availability Groups.

  • Self-Service IPAM for XaaS Services:

    Due to high customer demand, all XaaS services (Managed Oracle Database Services, File Services, Enterprise Kubernetes) are being integrated into the IP address management (IPAM) solution of the Enterprise Service Cloud. Upto now, the used IP addresses had to be specified per instance manually. IPAM integration brings the following benefits:

    • Reduced risk of causing any IP overlaps

    • Possibility to allocate sub-ranges to an individual service

    • Simplified overview of the used address space

    • New Blueprints

      Under Catalog you will find the new blueprints in the Network Services category.

      • Create Service Network: This blueprint creates an aggregate for a specific service (e.g delegate a /22 towards Enterprise Kubernetes).
      • Delete Service Network
    • IPAM Migration of Existing Service Instances

      In this release (v121), the functionality is only available for the Managed Oracle Database Services (MODS High End, MODS regular).

      For existing service instances, we are going to migrate the currently used IP ranges into the IPAM management. This migration will be done by Swisscom. In case of any issues (e.g. overlapping IP ranges) the Swisscom support team will contact you to resolve the appearing conflict.

    • Outlook to upcoming releases

      In an upcoming release, the blueprints of the following services will also be covered with the IPAM integration including integration/migration of all existing instances to allow smooth transition:

      • Enterprise Kubernetes
      • File Service Premium

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Fixed undefined tooltips.
  • Portal - Fixed clear filter behavior.

Version 120

Release date: 10.09.2020

  • Portal - Notification banners for scheduled notifications showing up now.
  • Portal - Rendering of IPv6 Addresses in Security tab fixed.
  • Portal - Display more properties for read only machines.
  • Services - Allow force destroy when VM is in temp admin mode
  • Services - Added max. disk number 10 to Managed MSSQL Always On Blueprints
  • Services - Reporting for ABB billing uses short VM name instead of FQDN
  • Services - SQL Always On: Added ABB billing for AO listener (usage residing on cluster was not billed so far)

Version 119

Release date: 27.08.2020
⚠️ Release contains features from both v118 and v119.

Services

  • New Blueprints:

    • Managed RHEL 8 (same functionality as Managed RHEL 7)

    • Managed Windows 2019 (same functionality as Managed Windows 2016)

      ⚠️ Please be aware that a Microsoft bug leads to a restart of the VM when the CPU configuration gets changed. This is a known error in Microsoft Windows Server 2019 code. The fix from the supplier is expected for late September. When the fix is available it will be rolled out as part of a regular patching window.

  • Deprecated Blueprints:

    • Managed Windows 2012 R2: This blueprint cannot be ordered anymore. The Day 2 Actions on an existing blueprint are still available.
  • New Day 2 Actions on Managed MS SQL:

    • It is now possible to deploy functions or stored procedures which use the CLR (common language runtime) feature through the upload of a DLL file. The feature is based on the CLR Strict Security feature in SQL Server 2017. Following new Day 2 Actions are available:
      • Manage MS SQL Assembly Certificate: This action allows you to load a certificate signed assembly into a specific database.
      • Load MS SQL CLR Assembly: This action allows you to load a certificate used to sign assemblies into the target DBMS.
  • For the Managed Windows Service:

    • Customers can run the compliance checks manually in the Managed Windows OS. For further details please refer to Enterprise Service Cloud Documentation.
  • For the MODS Regular Service:

    • New backup option for PDB: This option can be selected when provisioning a PDB or by updating an existing PDB. This option needs to be enabled in order to use the Day 2 Action "Restore PDB".

Fixed Issues

  • Managed MSSQL: Added input validation for SQL DBA Name and SQL DBA Password fields and related day2 actions - The request forms can only be submitted when the values are correct.
  • Managed MSMSSQL: Upload Files & Mass Migration: Fixed an issue with S3 folders containing less than 10 bytes.
  • Managed MSMSSQL: Removed field "Compression Type" from On Demand Backup Actions > API to call these actions changed.
  • Filer Service: Fixed an issue in the File System Service Edit action form when the DNS fields contained empty values.
  • CaaS: Improved Cluster upgrade handling. Cluster is not blocked anymore during upgrade process.
  • "Run On Demand SQL Restore" action submit button disabled.
  • When creating snapshots on Windows VM, the portal does not block new snapshot operations.

Version 117

Release date: 30.07.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Success notifications configurable:

    • It is now possible to change how the success notifications (in green) are displayed and for how long. Following 3 options are available:
      • Do not display
      • Display until closed manually
      • .Display for specified time (duration in X seconds)
    • This feature can be configured in the User Settings page accessible from the User Menu in the top right corner.
  • Smart Reports:

    • For consistency reasons, the Smart Reports in the portal (visible in the Consumption Feature) are now standardized and simplified.
    • Now quantities are rounded to 3 digits. In July, the report will still be with more than 3 digits in the interest of traceability. From August onwards, the quantities will appear with 3 digits.

Services

  • Managed MS SQLNew Blueprint:
    • For new deployments the filestream functionality will be enabled by default.

Version 116

Release date: 16.07.2020

Services

  • New Blueprint:
    • Managed MS SQL 2017 Always On The new Blueprint has the same functionality and API structure as the 2016 Version of the blueprints. However they come with MS SQL 2017 instead of MS SQL 2016 preinstalled. The underlaying OS stays Windows 2016 (Managed OS).

Version 115

Release date: 02.07.2020

Services

  • For MS SQL Always-On:

    • New Day 2 Action "Upload Files to MS SQL" is now also available on MS SQL Always-On Nodes.
    • This is the same Day 2 Action as found on the Managed MS SQL DBMS service: Imports files from an S3 namespace to a local directory on the MS SQL server. The name needs to be specified as bucket/directory. These files can then be accessed from the database server, for example to bulk load a CSV file into a table.
  • For the MODS Regular Service:

    • The Oracle text can be selected as an option when provisioning a PDB.
  • For the Container Service with Kubernetes:

    • Billing of K8s persistent storage was implemented and thus monthly consumption will be invoiced as a separate price point.

Version 114

Release date: 18.06.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Catalog - Favorite Blueprints:
    • On the Catalog page, blueprints can be marked as your Favorite by clicking on the star-icon in the top-right corner of each blueprint tile.
    • Your favorite blueprints can then be accessed via Favorites in the side navigation.
    • This feature can be enabled or disabled in the newly introduced User Settings page accessible from the User Menu in the right top corner.

Services

  • For the MODS Regular Service:
    • New Day 2 Actions: Restart PDB
    • This service is now also available in the Advanced service class. When this is selected, the service is set up as Data Guard (replication to an additional data center). Choosing "Advanced" leads to an increase in resources (vCPU). Additional Oracle licenses must be provided by the customer.

Documentation

  • New look and feel:
    • The ESC Documentation is now available in a new, modern design with a clear new menu structure and navigation: docs.entcloud.swisscom.com
    • Including a new enhanced search function

Version 113

Release date: 04.06.2020
⚠️ Release contains features from both v112 and v113.

Services

  • For Managed MS SQL:

    • The Day 2 Actions "Run On Demand SQL Backup" and "Restore On Demand SQL Backup" moved now from deployment to machine level.
    • Please be aware that API calls need to be adjusted accordingly.
  • Hooks for Day 2 Actions:

    • We added new pre- & post hooks to all Managed Services (Managed OS and Managed SQL) specific Day 2 Actions
    • Please be aware that entitlements need to be configured accordingly in order for hooks to get sent
  • For Windows:

    • Compliance Check updates: The grace period was changed from 45 to 60 days. Which means that if the last patch installation was longer than 60 days ago, it is not possible to suspend automated patching process without patching the system first.
  • For Managed OS und DBMS Blueprints:

    • New Day 2 Action "Force Destroy" is now available on all Managed Blueprints.
    • This action is only shown if the machine is in the state "deleted". This means that the machine has already been "deleted" using Destroy VM and is still in the 30 days of backup retention. If the action Force Destroy VM is executed, the machine will be deleted completely.
  • Standardized Naming of Services and Blueprints:

    • Renaming of following unmanaged blueprints (old → new):
      • MS SQL Server 2016 → MS SQL 2016
      • MS SQL Server 2017 → MS SQL 2017
    • Renaming of following managed blueprints (old → new):
      • Managed MS SQL DBMS 2016 DBA Mode → Managed MS SQL DBMS DBA Mode 2016
      • Managed MS SQL DBMS 2017 DBA Mode → Managed MS SQL DBMS DBA Mode 2017
      • Managed MS SQL Server 2016 → Managed MS SQL DBMS 2016
      • Managed MS SQL Server 2017 → Managed MS SQL DBMS 2017
    • Renaming of the blueprint File Service (old → new):
      • File Service → File Service Premium
    • Important: Please adapt the API calls accordingly in case you are ordering services via API (otherwise for example the automation scripts or tool integrations that interact with the vRA API will no longer work).
  • Service Catalog Adjustment:

    • The FileService Blueprint is now assigned to File Services - Service/Catalog
    • Important: Please verify that the Entitlements are set correctly on the newly assigned catalog.
  • Kubernetes Updates:

    • "Create Cluster" is now a Day 2 Action of the Kubernetes Environment (it used to be an own Blueprint)

    • Renaming several Day 2 Actions (old → new):

      • Edit Kubernetes Environment → Edit Environment
      • Edit Kubernetes Cluster → Edit Cluster
      • Delete Kubernetes Cluster → Delete Cluster
      • Get Kubernetes Credentials → Get Credentials
    • Important: Please be aware that API calls need to be adjusted accordingly.

    • The hook notifications of the Kubernetes Day 2 Actions "Upgrade Cluster" and "Add Persistent Storage" are now sent to the hook proxy (Note: Customer must have a hook proxy server set up to receive the notifications).

Version 111

Release date: 07.05.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Firewall Sections:

    • It is now possible to create, edit and delete NSX Firewall Sections under Security on the Swisscom Portal.
    • Swisscom as a provider is always owner of the first section and therefore it is not possible to change or remove this section.
    • Only if you have access to the Security tab you will be able to see this new feature.
  • Consumption Manager role:
    • The access to the Consumption report page is now decoupled from the vRA access.
    • This way it is possible now to have a Consumption Manager role which can only see the Consumption report page. All other tabs in the Swisscom Portal will not be shown.
    • Additionally it is also possible to assign the Consumption Manager role to other roles than Tenant Managers, such as Business Group Users and Business Group Managers. They can only see the consumption for the Business Groups they are entitled to.
    • In order to obtain access to the Consumption report page you will need to create a new role "Consumption managers" (e.g. in the Active Directory). Please refer to your Customer Service Manager for more information.

Services

  • For File Service Premium:
    • You can now add a SMB container to a File Service Premium.
    • Per container you can choose either SMB or NFS. You cannot use both in one container.
    • SMB containers join automatically the resource domain. Therefore it is possible to integrate to the Active Directory.
  • For MODS High End:
    • Edit PDB (new Day 2 Actions):
      • It is now possible to update the support hours (office hours, 24/7).
      • You can now update the resource prioritization (high, medium, low).

Version 110

Release date: 23.04.2020

Services

  • For Managed SQL:
    • Advanced Reconfigure is now available and allows you to change the Service Level, Location and Storage Policy. This action is only available when the VM is powered off.
  • We have activated 2 new RHEL Blueprints in the Service Catalog
    • RHEL8-U1
    • RHEL7-U7

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - New custom properties: Custom properties that are added to an already created VM are now shown on the Properties page on that VM.

Version 108

Release date: 26.03.2020

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Consumption Reports:
    • The Consumption feature is now available on the ESC portal. Consumption data is shown near-real time under Consumption and can be downloaded as reports (CSV file). Data is available for the current month as well as the previous months.
    • In order to obtain access to this feature you will need to create a new role "Consumption managers" (e.g. in the Active Directory). Please refer to your Customer Service Manager for more information.
    • Important: This first version of the feature gives authorized users access to the consumption of the whole tenant. As part of further development, it will be possible to give access on a Business Group level.

Services

  • For the MODS Regular Service:
    • Edit PDB: It is now possible to update the support hours.
    • Enable encryption: New action on PDB level to enable or disable the encryption.
    • Edit CDB: New possibility to update the friendly name, the CPU count and the state of the backup configuration.

Fixed Issues

  • Service - Agent-Based Backup On Demand Restore Day2 Action
    • Deleted databases can be restored as long as there is still a backup available.
    • Issue with handling different time zones is fixed.
  • Service - SQL & Managed OS Blueprints: Custom Properties (created through "Create Custom Property") are now also consumed by SQL & Managed OS blueprints.

Version 107

Release date: 12.03.2020

Services

  • For the Managed MS SQL DBMS service:
    • Upload Files to MS SQL: Imports files from an S3 namespace to a local directory on the MS SQL server. The name needs to be specified as bucket/directory. These files can then be accessed from the database server, for example to bulk load a CSV file into a table.
  • For the Container Service with Kubernetes:
    • Upgrade Cluster: offers you the possibility to take control of the cluster upgrade process and thus lets you decide the appropriate point in time by giving you the means to trigger the upgrade of an individual cluster in a self-service manner.
    • Add Persistent Storage: Allows you to add additional storage to a cluster instance, for each execution a multiple of 8 TB can be added.
  • For the MODS Regular Service:
    • Get Credentials: New action to retrieve the administrative user credentials for a PDB. The password needs to be changed on the initial login to the database
    • Edit PDB: Possibility to update the friendly name and lockdown profile
    • Mount NFS Share: Action on PDB level to attach a FileService NFS share. A share within the same business group needs to be selected and will be automatically attached to the PDB.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Security Tags: Remove VM from a security tag now works as expected.
  • Portal - Consumption Reports: Update on MODS related product labelling.
  • Platform - Improve description how to format usernames in the input field for create/update business groups.
  • Platform - Loosing all member of a business group when updating it.
  • Platform - OpenJDK/AdoptOpenJDK base version check.

Version 105

Release date: 13.02.2020

Platform

  • Import OVA from S3: When importing the OVA as a VM, the user can now select up to 8 vNics that should be attached to the VM and can optionally specify IPs that should be allocated to the given vNic.

Services

  • The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service is a component of Microsoft Windows that is responsible for coordinating transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems. With this release we introduce a new day 2 action for Managed MS SQL:

    • New action "Set MS SQL DTC Configuration". This allows the user to configure MSDTC.

Fixed Issues

  • Platform - Password validation failed on VM to catalog item action
  • Platform - Able to order Blueprints with no resource Domain selected
  • Platform - Improve description how to format usernames in the input field for create/update business groups
  • Platform - Loosing all member of a business group when updating it

Version 104

Release date: 30.01.2020

Platform

  • Unmanaged & Managed Windows MS SQL 2017 Blueprints: All Microsoft SQL 2017 Binaries were updated and contain now Cumulative Update 18.

  • Update Patching Window: For instantiated Managed MS SQL AlwaysOn instances, the customer can now update as a Day 2 Action the Patching Window in which Swisscom will install the patches on these instances.

  • New Day 2 Actions:
    • "Run On Demand Patching":
      • Can be used to start OS / SQL Patching On Demand
      • Available on all Managed Blueprints
    • "Update Patching Suspension":
      • Can be used to pause the automated patching process for up to 60 days
      • Available on all Managed Blueprints
    • Modification on "Request Temp Admin":
      • It is now feasible to execute the "Request Temp Admin" action even if the machine is already in Temp Admin mode. If executed in this state the password of the custadm user will be reset.
  • Fine Grained Access Management:
    • Machines/Groups/Accounts will now be placed in Business Group specific Active Directory Organizational Units within the customers Resource Domain. The customer can set more granular access to its resources using business group specific groups. This feature is available on all Managed Blueprints (OS & SQL).
  • Managed RHEL:
    • With the introduction of Fine Grained Access Management for Managed RHEL, it is no longer possible to do SSH log on with locally created Linux users.
    • SSH log on is only allowed for members of the according group in the Active Directory Resource Domain for the Tenant.
    • It is also possible to assign predefined sudo rules. To do this, the Active Directory Users must be added to the appropriate Active Directory Security group.

Services

  • Kubernetes Cluster: We have added 2 new cluster variants and have changed to a more flexible naming concept, also for the existing variants. The names of the five variants now available indicate the worker vCPU and RAM configuration with the extensions .dev (for non HA) and .std (HA with standard vCPU/RAM ratio):
    • K8s Management Platinum 2c8r.dev (former small)
    • K8s Management Platinum 2c8r.std
    • K8s Management Platinum 4c16r.std (former medium)
    • K8s Management Platinum 8c32r.std
    • K8s Management Platinum 16c64r.std (former large)

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Broken link to vRA programming guide: The link in the Menu to the vRA programming guide points to the valid URL again.
  • Platform - Import OVA displays now as well available locations based on reservations (only displays actually available locations)
  • Platform - Enforce OVA name to be unique when importing it

Version 103

Release date: 16.01.2020

Swisscom Portal

  • Input validation on numeric fields: Numeric fields now show by default a hint about the valid range than can be entered.
    • Benefit: Less hints about invalid inputs
  • Request Filters
    • Requests can be filtered after "Cancelled" status.

Platform

  • New day-2 action: We introduced a New Day2 action ("Show Pool Member Stats") for the "Managed F5 Virtual Edition" deployments.
    • Benefit: The action depicts the pool member status which can be either "available" or "offline" when the sync is successful.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Firewall rules performance improvement: Optimized loading of firewall rules and sections on firewall rule page (Security).
  • Portal - My Item details page: On My Item details page, after cancelled a submitted request, the My Item details page is in edit mode again.
  • Portal - Request Details: Open Request details on a provisioning request does not lead to an error anymore when Request details are shown shortly after provisioning request has been requested.
  • Platform - On VM registration (Import OVA) the VM will be tagged with the correct SecurityTag as specified in the reservation.
  • Platform - A new Backup/Restore plugin version addresses few issues around "Restore To New" functionality.

Version 102

Release date: 05.12.2019

Swisscom Portal

  • Request handling: While a machine is in the state of a pending request (old: "Read-Only mode") no other request can be submitted. The user experience was improved and now you will find instead of the "Read-Only mode" a short explanation of this state on the help icon.

Platform

  • Force destroy VM: A VM in "Deleted" state can now be destroyed completely, even if there are still backups of that VM available. Those backups however are not deleted. In case this should happen as well, a service request has to be opened.
    • Note: The action "Destroy VM" is only visible if the machine is either "On" or "Off". In all other states the action will not be available.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal - Business Group filter on Catalog items; we fixed the issue which was preventing from requesting a Blueprint when Catalog items are filtered by a Business Group.
  • Portal - Delete Custom Properties; we fixed the issue which was preventing from requesting a 'Delete Custom Property Blueprint' operation.
  • Portal - Snapshots; we fixed the issue when snapshots disappear when refreshing the MyItems detail page.
  • Portal - Confirmation Dialog; we fixed the issue when the confirmation modal dialog was prompting unintentionally when reconfiguring requests were submitted.

Version 101

Release date: 21.11.2019

Swisscom Portal

  • Confirmation Dialog: When trying to navigate to another page while editing MyItems details or Firewall Rules, a new confirmation dialog has been introduced letting the user decide to stay on the page or leave the page.
    • Benefit: No loss of unsaved data

Services

  • Managed Oracle Database Service: We are pleased to announce our new service for Managed Oracle Databases out of the cloud. This service will be available for proof of concept-customers only upon request. The blueprint "Managed Oracle CDB (Regular)" will instantiate an Oracle Container Database (CDB). Additionally, multiple Oracle Pluggable Databases (PDB) can be attached to the CDB through a resource action. Deletion functionality is also available for both items. Connectivity between the basic CDB and the ESC is not yet automated and needs to be done manually by Swisscom once per CDB (please note: additional PDBs do not require any manual intervention). The initial credentials for accessing the PDB also needs to be obtained manually at this point in time.

  • New Day-2 Actions:

    • Manage Agent Based Backup: This action can be found on the machine level on all Managed MS SQL products.
    • Manage Agent Based Backup (AO): This action can be found on deployment level on the Managed MS SQL AlwaysOn product.

    These two new actions can be used to change the Agent Based Backup Policy and to enable Agent Based Backup on Managed SQL machines. To enable Agent Based Backup simply switch from the current policy (none) to a different one.

    Note: Tenants need to have Agent Based Backup enabled in order to use those actions.

  • Mass Migrate MS SQL Databases: This action can be used to import multiple databases from a S3 source. The action is enabled on all Managed MS SQL Products.

Fixed Issues

  • Portal: Sort order, inverted sort order of My Items and Requests fixed
  • Portal: Notifications, a bug in scheduling notifications is fixed
  • Portal: Portal patch for VMware vRA HF4: Issue with non-backward compatible vRA API, introduced by VMware HF4, fixed (disk-size property)
  • Platform: The hook framework now relies on the "requestId" property as propagated by the vRA platform after the HF4 rollout. This in turn allows us to easily correlate the hook payload with the action that triggered the given event.
  • Platform: Create custom property checks if the property exists case sensitive

Version 100

Release date: 07.11.2019

Services

  • New Blueprints:
    • Managed MS SQL 2017
    • Managed MS SQL 2017 DBA Mode

      The two new Blueprints have the same functionality and API structure as the 2016 Version of the blueprints. However they come with MS SQL 2017 instead of MS SQL 2016 preinstalled. The underlaying OS stays Windows 2016 (Managed OS). For more details see here.

Platform

  • S3 Endpoint now included in "Get S3 Credentials": The S3 Endpoint will be depicted as well when requesting "Get S3 Credentials".
    Benefit: The users can now look-up all the required data for the S3 login at one place.

  • New Blueprint to delete Tufin function (“Delete Function”): This blueprint will allow you to delete incorrectly defined or unutilized functions created in vRA. Please note that this action has no impact on the Tufin side.
    Benefit: The user can delete Tufin functions on their own.

  • New blueprint to apply Tufin functions to existing VMs (“Add Function to VM”): This blueprint will allow you to apply a Tufin function to an existing VM. Please note that this will not generate an event but only apply the given function value to the VM.
    Benefit: The feature will allow you to keep the vRA and Tufin inventories in sync.

  • New Day-2 action to update custom property values: As part of Day 2 action menu, the customers can now update values for all the properties that are defined using the “Create Custom Property” Blueprint.

Fixed Issues

  • Platform: Fix retrieving of networks in the tenant clean-up process
  • Platform: Fix nsx-proxy on-boarding to work also in production
  • Platform: Handle no business group found in Tufin vRO resource file

Version 99

Release date: 24.10.2019

Services

  • Improved details pages for

    • Kubernetes Cluster: We have improved the details page for Cluster in vRA.
      Benefit: You are able to see more details about the Cluster configuration.

    • Kubernetes Environment: We have improved the details page for Environment in vRA.
      Benefit: You are able to see more details about the Environment configuration.

  • Improved Deployment Wizard for Kubernetes Cluster:

    • We have removed fields that are currently automatically configured by our backend (there is no need for any input on your side).
      Benefit: Faster deployment time due to fewer information needed.
  • Added insecure_registries for PKS Cluster Update

    • You can now overwrite the previously configured insecure registry for the Kubernetes Cluster.
      Benefit: More configurability of the existing Cluster

Fixed Issues

  • Portal: Session expiration banner is now shown 90 seconds before session ends

Version 98

Release date: 10.10.2019

Swisscom Portal

  • On the Security tab we now show an indication in red in case the user input is invalid until it’s corrected.

Platform

  • It is possible now to reserve an IP within an existing network. The user doesn't need to specify an IP. If it is not provided, the system will pick a random IP and mark it as unavailable.
  • You can now delete users, which allows you to clean up accounts that are previously deleted from your Active Directory instance.
  • For a select set of customers: It is now available to create and update custom groups, which means you are entitled to configure user access to your tenant by creating rules against your Active Directory instance

Fixed Issues

  • Fix Get S3 Credentials
  • Fix listing of available networks on Create/Update business groups
  • Shares are now provisioned on the same datacenter class as the rest of the VMs within a tenant.
  • Increased download speed of binaries in various installation scripts which results in faster requests of new deployments

Version 97

Release date: 26.09.2019

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • We now show for each machine and deployment ongoing requests as well as whether further actions can be applied
  • On the request page, a new field shows the requester's name
  • Pagination and filtering by name are now supported for Security Tags
  • We show now one IP address range per line in the IP sets modal

Services

  • CaaS

    • The Kubernetes Cluster XaaS Blueprint can now deploy a cluster against a user defined environment
    • We have introduced a new Day-2 Action "Delete Kubernetes Environment"
  • Managed SQL

    • You can now add an Oracle Provider "MS SQL Linked Server" Day-2 action
    • We have enabled "bring your own license" for Managed SQL products - a new attribute must be set if a Managed SQL is ordered using the API (set "Scc.Ms.Sqllicense" to "yes" or "no")
    • For selected tenants we have enabled transparent data encryption on DB level

Platform

  • We have optimized our hook framework; the ESC platform will no longer notify you about platform-internal events imposed by your requests, but only about those relevant to you

Fixed Issues

  • General: We have introduced both read-only and disabled mode for the tree-form-control in order to avoid customer confusion (e.g. when VM snapshots are listed)
  • General: We have rolled out several improvements to stabilize long-running ordering processes
  • General: We have addressed consistency issues between XaaS blueprints and Day-2 action labels
  • MSSQL: DB Exports do not time out anymore if a backup takes longer than 10 minutes
  • MSSQL: We have fixed issues with the Tufin mapping for MSSQL blueprints (activated only for a selected set of customers)

Version 96

Release date: 15.08.2019

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Cancel and dismiss requests
  • Show properties on submitted requests

Services

  • CaaS
    • Kubernetes Cluster XaaS Blueprint will now deploy a cluster against a user defined Environment
    • Improvement in Credential Handling for Kubernetes Cluster
    • New "Delete Kubernetes Environment" Day-2 Action
      • Action can be used to dismantle a Kubernetes Environment
    • Full Kubernetes Environment Deployment functionality
      • Ability to specify IP Ranges and DNS Servers
    • Full Dynamic Kubernetes Cluster Deployment functionality
      • Deployment based on dynamic Environment
  • Managed SQL
    • Agent based Backup is now enabled on the Managed SQL Always On Blueprint
    • A new custom Property is present and needs to be sent with a valid value (Scc.Ms.AbbProtectionGroup). Default value is "None".
    • The permission "View server state" is available for the customer admin role
  • Filer Service
    • New Day-2 Action "Edit File Service"
      • Action can be used to modify the Instance Name, DNS-Servers, DNS Domain Name and nfsv4 Domain Name

Platform

  • DynDB Stability and Error Handling Improvements
  • Import OVA
    • Option to assign image to blueprint
    • Option to only change the template (not replacing the blueprint)
    • Option to specify min, max and default values for memory and CPU

Fixed Issues

  • Empty Function (tufin mapping) field in catalog
  • DomainAdminPassword is removed from VM after domain join
  • Clone MS SQL DB now works on all Managed SQL Systems
  • Maintenance Window are now handled correctly during patching

Version 94

Release date: 18.07.2019

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Display managed state for managed VM
  • Sortable table in requests
  • Show requests in my items
  • Collapsible side navigation
  • Possibility to sort my items tables
  • Security: text filter for all views
  • New “Delete” day-2 action with form and validation for deployments
  • Support dual list component (import OVA from S3 blueprint)

Fixed Issues

  • For certain properties (Tufin or properties created using the “Create Custom Property” blueprint) the dropdown in the Swisscom Portal is empty.

Version 93

Release date: 04.07.2019

Services

  • File Service Premium

Please note: Due to commercial conditions we kindly ask you to contact your Swisscom Account Manager before the service can be made available in your Service catalog.

Version 92

Release date: 20.06.2019
⚠️ Release contains features from both v91 & v92

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Action menu on machines not available during pending request

Services

  • DynDB

    • New day-2 action "Restart PDB"
  • Unmanaged MS SQL 2017 Server Blueprint is available now

  • Managed SQL

    • New day-2 action "Clone MS SQL Database" is available on all Managed SQL Blueprints. This action can be used to clone an existing Database (schema only). Please notice: Only works on new machines (Known Issue).
    • New day-2 action "Set Provider for MS SQL Linked Server" for Managed SQL 2016. This action can be used to install DB2 drivers. Please notice: Customer maintenance mode needs to be enabled, the action causes a restart of the SQL service.

Platform

  • Create/Update/Delete Custom Property
    • Ability to apply properties on machine and deployment level

Fixed Issues

  • If customer had user in group S_04, he could still log on to the server under certain circumstances
  • Import OVA: Fix for overwrite blueprint (form reload triggered on setting the checkbox)
  • Execute actions on VMs that have pending requests via the MyItems list (which should not be possible)
  • Local DB backup is still enabled with ABB
  • Port Monitoring cannot be enabled with more than one Listener (AO)
  • Configuration override

Version 90

Release date: 09.05.2019

Services

  • Import OVA
    • Tenant Manager can request S3 credentials for .OVA import via new Blueprint "Get S3 Credentials"
    • Customization of the Blueprint (advanced options): The property groups and the machine prefix can be specified
  • Managed Services
    • We changed the description of the Patching Window field to clarify that the time is in UTC Time Zone
    • Revised the User Guide Documentation for Managed OS. Especially improved the "Actions for a Managed OS VM" section
  • Managed RHEL
    • Managed Linux will now be deployed with RHEL 7 Update 6 instead of Update 5 (fully patched)
  • Managed SQL
    • Agent Based Backup (ABB): There is a new dropdown on Managed SQL deployments were you can specify the Agent Based Backup Protection Group (Scc.Ms.AbbProtectionGroup). The field is mandatory.
  • Two new Day-2 operations for Agent Based Backup
    • Run On Demand SQL Backup & Run On Demand SQL Restore
    • Both can be found on a Deployment level

Fixed Issues

  • Leo-tenants only: No network available after requested a VM from Swisscom Cloud Portal
  • VM Properties tab in Swisscom Cloud Portal is not at all VM states rendered properly
  • Local DB backup is still enabled with ABB
  • Port Monitoring cannot be enabled with more than one Listener (AO)
  • Several vRA 7.5.1 related hotfixes (IaaS, CaaS, MyItems performance, Reconfigure)
  • Fix for Destroy VM and Create PDB failures
  • To prevent Deployment timeouts, we increased timeouts of various Event Broker Subscriptions
  • Patching for Managed RHEL and Managed Windows now calculates the correct week of the month

Version 89

Release date: 28.04.2019
⚠️ Release contains features from both v88 & v89

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Link to ESC Statuspage
  • Maintenance mode toaster
  • New Kubernetes Actions: Delete & Update Cluster, Get Credentials
  • Adjusted UX design of Optional/Required fields
  • BG Filter optimizations (searchability/autocomplete)

Services

  • MSSQL AO (Day-2):
    • Add Database to Availability Group
    • Remove Database from Availability Group
    • Move Availability Group
    • Set Availability Group Replica to Readable
  • DynDB
    • Select uplink topology when creating CDB (BP)
  • OpenShift
    • VM disk sizing configurability updates (BP)
  • Revised the User Guide Documentation for Managed OS. Especially improved the "Actions for a Managed OS VM" section

Platform

  • Create Custom Property: Support to add the same property to multiple Business Groups and add the property with the default value to all existing VMs
  • Import OVA: Overwriting Blueprint now works

Fixed Issues

  • Improved handling of non/visible custom properties
  • Improve business groups placeholder
  • Request details unreadable on IE
  • Business Group Filter on Catalog gets cleared when Text Filter should be cleared
  • Form update issues
  • Hide border in about modal
  • Enable modal closing in IE and Chrome
  • CaaS Bugfixes

Version 87

Release date: 14.02.2019
⚠️ Release contains features from both v86 & v87

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • New action "View properties" VM
  • NSX Upgrade: Pass layer field to NSX proxy
  • Limit disk size to 4TB
  • Remove terms of service
  • Whitelist Kubernetes actions
  • Whitelist ARCUN actions

Services

  • Managed Kubernetes Cluster as a Service

    • New services introduced for selected customers
    • Fully provider managed Kubernetes Cluster as a Service.
  • Managed RHEL 7:

    • Extended the following checks of the Compliance Check:

      • check_scs_puppet, the command 'puppet agent -t' must run without errors, before switching back to Full Managed state.
    • Added the following checks to the Compliance Check:

      • check_reboot, ensures the OS does not require a reboot after upgrading some packages.
      • check_ssh, ensures sshd is running and the configuration file exists. Ensure sshd is running with the default configuration file. Ensure sshd has a minimal sane configuration.
      • check_fstab, checks if all entries from /etc/fstab are mounted. All entries from /etc/fstab must be mounted befor switching back to Full Managed state.
  • Managed SQL Products:

    • The SQL Service will now be configured to use the recommended amount of memory when you increase/decrease memory using the reconfigure day-2 action.
    • All SQL Products:
      • In order to guarantee a smooth experience with all our SQL Products, we increased the minimum amount of configurable Memory from 4GB to 8GB.
      • Our SQL Server 2014 baselined with Service Pack 3, From now onwards all our  SQL 2014 Products will get installed with Service Pack 3.

Fixed Issues

  • Append slash to /release-notes endpoint to avoid problems if customer is behind a proxy
  • Checkbox group payload
  • Infinite form reconfigure
  • Parallel reconfigure requests

Version 85

Release date: 12.01.2019
⚠️ Release contains features from v82 - v85
[Note: quality issues raised by our internal systems, we skip the v83 to production and adopted v85 directly]

Managed Services

  • Managed Services: Technical contact added
  • Managed OS: The compliance check results now contain more details about the detected issues

Infra & Network

  • VMDK Disk size Limit
  • Uplink topology migration to automated cpBroker

Miscellaneous

  • vCenter upgrade
  • Networker upgrade

Fixed Issues

  • Create MS SQL Database” action for DBs with a large initial size sometimes fails with an unexpected error.

Version 81

Release date: Release date: 15.12.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v80 & v81

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Add support for vRA form custom validation facet
  • Remove trigger from submit phase form update
  • Add feature toggling
  • Better support of readonly and disabled fields
  • Change how snapshot pending operation are detected
  • Upgrade to angular 7.1.2

Miscellaneous

  • Blacklisting "Change Security” action
  • VMDK Disk size Limit

Fixed Issues

  • Fix panels layout and scrollbars
  • Make data table fill flex container on IE
  • Fix empty value request
  • Fix null literals in generic form
  • Don't show success message on disposal of modal
  • Restore list snapshot
  • Don't show optional in label for editable dropdowns
  • Avoid space key to trigger cancel or submit button

Version 79

Release date: 17.11.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v78 & v79

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Improved form validation
  • Notify user when sessionx1 is about to expire
  • "None" text for disk label on existing machine
  • Help text for tenant on login

Network and Connectivity

  • Automated uplink Topology creation by cpBroker (Pre-selected customers)

Platform

  • Data store clusters
  • VMware Patch : Fix for missing EBS Subscriptions events
  • VMware Patch : Horizon failures in VRA Health Check

Fixed Issues

  • Portal: Fix custom validation not triggered
  • Portal: Wrong placeholder in schedule changes modal
  • Portal: Fill width for plain text even on IE
  • Portal: Solve checkbox padding issues
  • Portal: Make paddings work for IE
  • Portal: Hide time optional mark
  • Portal: Overlapping checkbox error messages
  • Managed RHEL 7: Add new compliance check check_fs_content which ensures that there is no customer content on the OS filesystems.

Version 77

Release date: 20.10.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v76 & v77.

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Change title from 'Swisscom Enterprise Service Cloud' to 'Swisscom Cloud'
  • NSX: New time picker for date/time filter for flow logs
  • NSX: Change flow logs direction to match API wording

Miscellaneous

  • Networker 4.0.5 release
    • Fixed with VM backup and restore
  • vRA Performance improvements
  • vRA patches

Fixed Issues

  • Restyle hover color of toasters according to sdx
  • Make section field wider
  • Align loading spinner on plain text field
  • Catch BG loading errors when enriching list by BG name
  • Fix infinite loading when no items
  • Machines: fix switched label and value in read only mode
  • Fix notification badge alignment

Version 75

Release date: 22.09.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v74 & v75.

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • UX Improvements
    • Restyle buttons, notifications and submit bar (OC-620, OC-612)
    • Restyle chips & tabs to match sdx
    • Revise colors
  • MyItems: Custom tables (OC-1604)
  • Tech: Allow ESC CAT stage to have f5 support
  • Tech: Avoid cancelled first request on infinite scroller

Services

  • Managed Windows:
    • Resource Domain Permissions for WMI and Access implemented on Managed OS Windows
    • WMI: https://docs.dev.entcloud.swisscom.com/services/managed-services/os/how-to.html#Monitoring
    • Access: [Documentation will be updated soon]
  • Managed RHEL 7:
    • The Managed RHEL Blueprint got renamed from “Managed RHEL 7 U4” to “Managed RHEL 7”. This change is also reflected in API
    • New template based on RHEL 7 U5

Miscellaneous

  • Improved popover component
  • Custom tables: Status column only shown for machine types in MyItems
  • Tech: Allow ESC CAT stage to have f5 support
  • UX Improvements
    • Restyled buttons, notifications and submit bar
    • Restyled status labels and tabs to adhere to Swisscom Digital Experience guidelines
    • Revised colors

Fixed Issues

  • Fix multiplied menu items
  • Fix autologout
  • NSX: Fix port limitation
  • NSX: Invert block and allow states in flow logs

Version 73

Release date: 25.08.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v72 & v73.

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Catalog: Business group filter
  • Catalog/MyItems: Support radio button group element
  • Catalog/MyItems: Support search element
  • Catalog/MyItems: Support show/hide sections/pages
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB provisioning/detail page
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB action Update PDB
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB action Unprovision PDB
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB action Create user
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB User action Show password
  • Catalog/MyItems: PDB User action Delete user
  • Security: Flows logs list
  • Reports: List and download
  • Administration: tenant admin permission check
  • Administration: menu + feature toggle
  • Tech: Header & Menu + feature toggle
  • Tech: Remove xaas blueprint enabled config
  • Tech: Whitelist dcs actions

Miscellaneous

  • vRA Networker plugin upgrade, that solved several issues around the backup/restore actions

Services

  • Managed SQL: Developer Edition is available now
  • Import MS SQL DB: Validation to detect read-only and single-user DBs added
  • New Day 2 Action: Update MS SQL Permissions
  • Managed RHEL 7 : The volume group "datavg" is automatically created resp. extended when additional disks are added to a VM with "Reconfigure".

Fixed Issues

  • Actions: wrong size on initial opening
  • Actions: open to bottom if not enough space
  • Menu and Tooltip chevron not properly aligned/positioned
  • Dropdown: width changes in IE
  • Filters are not emptied after logout/login
  • Angular cache not emitting inner observables
  • Wrong BG loading VMware SR18796117005

Version 71

Release date: 28.07.2018
⚠️ Release contains features from both v70 & v71.

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Swisscom portal support for DynDB (nova)
  • Minor fixes & Usability improvements

Platform

  • Bulk power-on/power-off concurrent VM operation has been optimized.
  • Platform patches including loading times for reservations, fine tune horizon services.
  • Fix for Windows VM does not get IP

Services

  • Enhancements to Unmanaged SQL Servers:
    • The “Use Swisscom SQL license” field is now a dropdown instead of a checkbox. Customer needs to select “Yes” or “No”.
    • API changed. If requesting an unmanaged SQL Server one needs to specify ‘Yes’/’No’ instead of true/false on the “Scc.Ms.Sqllicense” property.
  • Enhancements to Managed OS
    • Default CPU from 1 to new minimum of 2
    • API changed accordingly.
    • Stability improvements on Request Workflows
    • New actions available including Change Owner (on the Deployment), Advanced Reconfigure, Create Snapshot, Delete Snapshot & Revert To Snapshot
  • Enhancements to Managed SQL
    • Stability improvements on Request Workflows
    • New actions available: Change Owner (on the Deployment)
    • Managed OS, Managed SQL and Unmanaged SQL: Maximum allowed memory increased to 1048576 GB

Fixed Issues

  • Portal: Business Group filter on Requests page
  • Actions: wrong size on initial opening
  • Actions: open to bottom if not enough space
  • Menu and Tooltip chevron not properly aligned/positioned
  • Dropdown: width changes in IE
  • Filters are not emptied after logout / login
  • Angular cache not emitting inner observables
  • Bulk power-on/power-off: 100 concurrent VM power operations on a 5 seconds. And interval change for vSphere agent
  • Platform patches including loading times for reservations, fine tune horizon services.
  • Fix for Windows VM does not get IP

Version 69

Release date: 30.06.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Improved search and filtering experience. e.g. business group filter
  • XaaS Support : checkbox list element, link element & email element

Platform

  • Workflow enhancements
  • Negative disc size issue
  • Camel case issue for custom properties

Services

  • DynDB Integration with IPAM
  • DynDB Integration with Hook Framework

Misc

  • Performance improvements: Resolved standard forms timeout issues.

Fixed Issues

  • OC-992: MyItems: dynamic types in side nav not in correct sequence
  • OC-495: IE: Many scrollbars while provisioning
  • OC-1037: Storage: boot disk capacity not changeable on existing machine
  • OC-1038: Storage: disk storage profile changeable on existing machine
  • ESCBUG-16: Security Tab permission check doesn't respect inherited permissions
  • OC-1221: Lifeform Logo is missing in About modal
  • OC-1224: Storage: invalid mount path accepted
  • OC-1248: Catalog: catalog item modal broken after ng6
  • OC-1251: Action: power off without any confirmation

Version 68

Release date: 31.05.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Requests: Show pre approval status
  • Managed OS: Icon - Patching Windows
  • Business Group is now shown as a new attribute on the MyItems page.
  • For requests with status "Pre Rejected", the portal shows now the "pre approval state" in the request details.
  • Changes to MyItems, The filter and quick jump controls are now positioned more intuitively to make it better

Fixed Issues

  • OC-854: Import MS SQL Database - Input Validation
  • OC-853: Flickering horizontal (IE only) and vertical scrollbars
  • ESCBUG-66: My Items: BG selection not working due to missing permissions
  • OC-850: Missing info on "Welcome Page" for several Actions
  • ESCBUG-76: Advanced Reconfigure Form Updates not returning dropdown values
  • OC-965: Dropdown menus should be alphabetically
  • OC-947: Snapshots: gone due to blocked service by security
  • ESCBUG-30: Incomplete DNS Search Suffix
  • ESCBUG-42: Destroy VM does not properly set VM state
  • ESCBUG-44: Supporting custom entitlements with approval policies

Version 67

Release date: 17.05.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Managed DB: MS-SQL Blueprint and actions in portal
  • Managed OS: Windows / RedHat Blueprints and actions in portal
  • Day-2 Operations on Managed Services

Services

  • Managed Services, Secure deployments using PHI
  • DynDB service enhancements

Fixed Issues

  • OC-826: Actions: i18n missing for custom destroy
  • OC-845: Header: Swisscom logo shown if customer logo defined
  • OC-850: Missing info on "Welcome Page" for several Actions
  • OC-841: Icons: white background on hover for png icons
  • ESCBUG-43: Administration: area only for tenant admin

Version 66

Release date: 03.05.2018

Misc

  • OnBoarding pre-prod environment
  • Backend preparation for Managed Services (Orchestration, Portal)

Fixed Issues

  • ESCBUG-4: Advanced Reconfigure Event is missing
  • ESCBUG-15: Managed OS RHEL VMs with multiple disks have no LVM and old-fashioned filesystem type
  • ECCORC-58: Create LB: Password must be set as sting explicitly
  • ECCORC-63: VM has 8 vNics after registration
  • ECCORC-52: Reconfigure of imported vm fails
  • ECCORC-56: VirtualMachine.Disk10.StorageReservationPolicy is missing
  • ECCORC-59: Promote VM to catalog item - handle disks
  • OC-740: Links in the portal are black
  • OC-796: Custom action menu icon are not properly aligned
  • OC-793: png icons in action dropdown lack padding

Version 65

Release date: 19.04.2018

Orchestration

  • Secure Blueprint deployment
  • Custom Property protection
  • DynDB XaaS Blueprint (MVP Version) for selected customers

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Enable Backup Policy
  • Restore Deleted VM
  • View Backup Status

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-9408: Requests - Clicking on status badge prevents modal from opening
  • CLOUDENT-9482: Input Field: options are not taking into account for read-only fields
  • CLOUDENT-8788: Loadbalancers: advanced requested, but got standard
  • CLOUDENT-7916: VirtualMachine.Disk.StorageReservationPolicy is missing on PRD and Sandbox and INT
  • CLOUDENT-9303: Guest Customization fails CLOUDENT-9381: Routed networks - shared across multiple BGs
  • CLOUDENT-9277: Error with ISRV00DEM02: You must have at least one properly configured vRealize Orchestrator endpoint that is reachable.
  • CLOUDENT-8357: The option "power on VM after deployment" does not work anymore

Version 64

Release date: 05.04.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • No changes in this release

Misc

  • VRA Hotfix for Multitenancy security
  • NSX Proxy new version

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-9491: NSX Proxy: Audit log endpoint not multi-tenanted
  • VMware Multi-Tenancy leak patch

Version 63

Release date: 22.03.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • New items under MyItems Section including:
  • Properties tab on machine detail
  • Backup restore data action
  • Backup restore to new action
  • Destroy deployment action
  • Enable Backup Policy action
  • Minor Changes to UI components text messages and more.

Misc

  • Resolved Critical bugs and incidents in workflow and customer workload related activities.

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-8788: LoadBalancers: advanced requested, but got standard
  • CLOUDENT-7916: VirtualMachine.Disk.StorageReservationPolicy is missing on PRD and Sandbox and INT
  • CLOUDENT-9303: Guest Customisation fails
  • CLOUDENT-9381: Routed networks - shared across multiple BGs
  • CLOUDENT-9277: Error with ISRV00DEM02: You must have at least one properly configured vRealize Orchestrator endpoint that is reachable.
  • CLOUDENT-8357: The option "power on VM after deployment" does not work anymore
  • CLOUDENT-8311: MyItems: Properties tab on machine detail
  • CLOUDENT-8473: MyItems: Backup restore data action
  • CLOUDENT-8475: MyItems: Backup restore to new action
  • CLOUDENT-9459: MyItems: Destroy deployment action
  • CLOUDENT-9460: MyItems: Enable Backup Policy action
  • CLOUDENT-5653: Schedule Changes: add date / time picker
  • CLOUDENT-9246: Loading spinner: change colour in form
  • CLOUDENT-8306: Text "Snapshot operation currently in progress..." is wrong
  • CLOUDENT-9322: Tables: partly shown action text on Firefox/IE/Edge
  • CLOUDENT-9252: Catalog: error notification in the back of the modal
  • CLOUDENT-8252: Register VM: The machine is not visible in the Swisscom Portal.
  • CLOUDENT-9225: Selecting Machines in left navigation shows deployments (when on a detail page)
  • CLOUDENT-9346: Notifications: Create disk dialog gets flooded with messages
  • CLOUDENT-9380: Actions: bring back + clean up
  • CLOUDENT-9166: Drop-down: change empty option
  • CLOUDENT-9168: Security Tags - Attached VM - Title truncated
  • CLOUDENT-9126: Description: Padding issue
  • CLOUDENT-9033: Status label in request details modal is styled wrong
  • CLOUDENT-9371: Description shows br tags
  • CLOUDENT-9175: Calendar: Mouseover background for days before today is missing
  • CLOUDENT-9385: Backup: Broken form
  • CLOUDENT-9406: My Items - Reset filter does not have cursor:pointer
  • CLOUDENT-9415: Input Field: Password eye icon not aligned
  • CLOUDENT-9412: Custom properties: password shown in plain text
  • CLOUDENT-9466: Catalog: BG filter is case sensitive

Version 62

Release date: 08.03.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Changes to the Navigation Tree : Navigation tree on My Items was replaced with a machine / deployment selection.
  • Changes including Security Tag - Show attached machines & Add security group to firewall rules ("applied to" tab)
  • Minor Changes including font size and Icon size improvements

Misc

  • Resolved Critical bugs and incidents in workflow and customer workload related activities.

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-8967: General: icon alignment in the table
  • CLOUDENT-9171: IP Sets: Long entries don't get truncated in the table
  • CLOUDENT-9003: Highlighted drop-down elements have a black label
  • CLOUDENT-9056: Advanced reconfigure: Service level change not reloading location
  • CLOUDENT-7916: VirtualMachine.Disk.StorageReservationPolicy is missing on PRD and Sandbox and INT
  • CLOUDENT-8788: LoadBalancers: advanced requested, but got standard
  • CLOUDENT-9042: Delete/Sync Network should not ask for the Business Group

Version 61

Release date: 22.02.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Catalog/MyItems: BG selection dropdown replaced with new autocomplete component
  • Security: Security Tag create/edit/delete/list

Misc

  • Define network and custom properties when creating a business group
  • AD Domain Join for Windows Machines
  • Reserve/Release IP
  • Support for NSX Version 6.2.9

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-5077: Blueprint custom properties do not follow the guidelines
  • CLOUDENT-8013: Request button not inactive when update request is pending
  • CLOUDENT-8203: LoadBalancer is failing on CM-02-Dev.
  • CLOUDENT-8466: "Reconfigure Edge" fails
  • CLOUDENT-8894: Disks - Not possible to set a label when adding a disk
  • CLOUDENT-8902: Not able to create a Loadbalancer in environment BSI (Test)
  • CLOUDENT-8911: "(Optional)" is added to required input fields
  • CLOUDENT-8916: Multiple scrollbars
  • CLOUDENT-8946: NSX Proxy Switch does not reload the FW Sections
  • CLOUDENT-8964: Newly created networks not attached to the reservation and sometimes even mapped to the wrong virtual wire
  • CLOUDENT-8968: Advanced reconfigure - Service level jumps back to previous value
  • CLOUDENT-8969: FW: Create rule click during loading
  • CLOUDENT-8976: NSX - Bulk select has different widths
  • CLOUDENT-8977: Security Tag - Clicking a row doesn't open the edit action
  • CLOUDENT-8982: General: Links having wrong mouse pointer
  • CLOUDENT-8984: Typo on Create Network dialog
  • CLOUDENT-8986: Swisscom logo does not have padding
  • CLOUDENT-8989: Button not disabled during pending requests
  • CLOUDENT-8995: Create Network should not ask for the Business Group
  • CLOUDENT-9001: Security: content hidden when fw section edit mode in scroll mode
  • CLOUDENT-9028: Input field - Select drop-down - unwanted scrollbar
  • CLOUDENT-9047: Update Network error on AAT and FAT
  • CLOUDENT-9062: Deployment: destroy modal having wrong size/no text/...

Version 60

Release date: 08.02.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Backup & Restore actions are now available (where applicable)
  • Usability improvements (font sizes & colors)

Services

  • Introduction to SQL 2016 DB (unmanaged service)

Misc

  • Choose Networks when creating Business Groups

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-8055: Steps of 4 for vm RAM: round up/down is missing
  • CLOUDENT-8197: Register VM. Number of disks mismatch not handled nicely
  • CLOUDENT-8304: Swisscom portal. Ram values not rounded up while rounded up in VRA UI
  • CLOUDENT-8611: FF: Catalog tiles not vertically spaced
  • CLOUDENT-8682: Search icon not aligned in bulk select component
  • CLOUDENT-8709: vRA blueprint "Delete BG" does not work in Portal
  • CLOUDENT-8850: Request routed network fails due dhcpStaticRoutes which is null
  • CLOUDENT-8867: Portal fails to display T4 firewall section
  • CLOUDENT-8880: Table layout is broken
  • CLOUDENT-8902: Not able to create a Loadbalancer in environment BSI (Test)
  • CLOUDENT-8909: Page header with filters are not aligned correctly

Version 59

Release date: 25.01.2018

Swisscom Cloud Portal

  • Bugfix Release

Services

  • Platinum/T4 Datacenter Exposure

Misc

  • Register VM (migration support)

Fixed Issues

  • CLOUDENT-3478: User flyout menu content not properly aligned
  • CLOUDENT-4553: Security: separator line in the side menu
  • CLOUDENT-5222: Vnic and error messages: Displayed in one case, not in another case
  • CLOUDENT-7495: mat-select drop-down items have ellipsis
  • CLOUDENT-7556: Enhance ITSM sync
  • CLOUDENT-7617: Cannot delete routed and isolated networks on Draco
  • CLOUDENT-7658: Portal cuts network names for vNIC
  • CLOUDENT-7763: Topology tree: node labels are missing in IE11
  • CLOUDENT-7951: Autocomplete field: result is truncated
  • CLOUDENT-7954: Request Delete Routed Network blueprint: Validation label appears when data is loaded
  • CLOUDENT-8014: icon-eye-shut isn't properly aligned in IE11
  • CLOUDENT-8171: Revert to snapshot - hidden button
  • CLOUDENT-8179: Action drop-down panel does not display correctly
  • CLOUDENT-8185: Quick jump opens on top of other opened modal
  • CLOUDENT-8194: Revert & Delete Snapshot: form for selecting the snapshot not shown
  • CLOUDENT-8197: Register VM. Number of disks mismatch not handled nicely
  • CLOUDENT-8198: Register VM: Dynamic not accepted as network type
  • CLOUDENT-8208: X icon for clearing filters is off
  • CLOUDENT-8254: Slider: thumb doesn't update while sliding
  • CLOUDENT-8314: Delete network from Portal leads to inconsistent state in IPAM
  • CLOUDENT-8316: Descending letters in h1 titles are cut off
  • CLOUDENT-8323: Value "None" twice
  • CLOUDENT-8335: Item count in bulk selection component doesn't work
  • CLOUDENT-8376: IE: Network, storage and snapshots tables have bad cell content alignment
  • CLOUDENT-8417: IE: Input text is bouncing when field is clicked
  • CLOUDENT-8591: Case insensitive cust props
  • CLOUDENT-8681: Unwanted horizontal scrollbar shown on the storage tab
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