<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Mar 2017, at 20:09, Brett Holcomb <<a href="mailto:biholcomb@l1049h.com" class="">biholcomb@l1049h.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I am currently running oVirt 3.6 on a physical server using hosted engine environment. I have one server since it's a lab setup. The storage is on a Synology 3615xs iSCSI LUN so that's where the vms are. I plan to upgrade to 4.1 and need to check to make sure I understand the procedure. I've read the oVirt 4.1 Release Notes and they leave some questions.<br class=""><br class="">First they say I can simply install the 4.1 release repo update all the ovirt-*-setup* and then run engine-setup.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I don’t know for sure, but I would first go to latest 4.0 and then to 4.1 as I’m not sure they test upgrades from 3.6 to 4.1 directly. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">1. I assume this is on the engine VM running on the host physical box.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, inside the VM. But first, follow the guide below and make sure engine is in global maintenance mode. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">2. What does engine-setup do. Does it know what I have and simply update or do I have to go through setup again.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>You don’t have to setup from scratch. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">3. Then do I go to the host and update all the ovirt stuff?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, first putting host in local maintenance mode and removing global maintenance mode from engine. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">However, they then say for oVirt Hosted Engine follow a link for upgrading which takes me to a Not Found :( page but did have a link back to the release notes which link to the Not Found which.... So what do I need to know about upgrading a hosted engine setup that there are no directions for. Are there some gotchas? I thought that the release notes said I just had to upgrade the engine and then the host.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>@ovirt, can this be fixed ? It’s quite annoying indeed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Meanwhile, I usually follow the linke from 4.0.0 release notes which is not 404. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#upgrade-hosted-engine" class="">https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#upgrade-hosted-engine</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Given that my VMs are on iSCSI what happens if things go bad and I have to start from scratch. Can I import the VMs created under 3.6 into 4.1 or do I have to do something else like copy them somewhere for backup.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It might be good to shutdown the VMs and do an export if you have a storage domain for that. Just to be 100 % safe.</div><div>In any case, during the upgrade, since the host is in maintenance, all VMs have to be OFF.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Any other hints and tips are appreciated.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Don’t have iSCSI so can’t help much with that.</div><div>I’m just a regular user who failed many times :)</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Thanks.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" class="">Users@ovirt.org</a><br class="">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>