Re: [ovirt-users] How to update ovirt on a single-host hosted-engine host

Hi Simone, On Fri, November 25, 2016 4:34 am, Simone Tiraboschi wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com&gt; wrote: [snip] >> So what IS the process to properly update a single-host host? My guess >> is: >> >> * shutdown all the VMs >> > * go into global maint mode (what IS the difference between global and >> local?) >> * shutdown the engine/engine VM >> * yum update on the host >> * restart services (or reboot, I guess) >> * bring the system out of maintenance mode >> > > shutdown or hibernate all the other VMs. > set global maintenance mode to avoid ovirt-ha-agent trying to restart the > engine vm > shutdown the engine VM (from the host CLI) with hosted-engine > --vm-shutdown This is in lieu of "shutdown -h now" from the engine VM? (i.e., will this perform a clean shutdown from within the VM?)

> yum update > restart services So I don't need to run a host equivalent of "engine-setup"? Great. > bring the system out of global maintenance mode: in a couple of minutes > the > HA agent should restart the engine VM Perfect. Thanks. I'll go test this shortly. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek(a)ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant