[ovirt-users] Upgrade scenario to 4.4 for HCI Gluster

Hello, I saw from some mails in the list that the approach for upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 will be similar to the 3.6 => 4.0 one. Reading the RHV 4.0 Self Hosted Engine Guide it seems it was necessary to have a second host, going through this: 5.4. Upgrading a RHEV-H-Based Self-Hosted Engine Environment https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.0/... and also https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/sla/hosted-engi... upgrade process involved: - set global ha maintenance - install a new host (and set it as on hosted engine one) - migrate engine VM to this host and set the host as the SPM - create a backup with engine-backup, verify its contents and copy to the host in some directory - run the upgrade utility on the host to update the engine VM hosted-engine --upgrade-appliance this will create a backup floating disk of the engine vm disk for rollback purposes and override the existing engine disk with a new one where to deploy the new engine version applying also the restore from the engine-backup --> what are requirements for 4.4 engine VM and so free storage to have on engine storage domain? The engine-setup will be automatically executed on the new version engine VM - exit from global maintenance - update remaining hosts Is the above procedure the correct one that I can test on a 4.3.9 lab? The 3.6 -> 4.0 flow implied that a 4.0 host could run a 3.6 engine VM Because the backup disk operation is done by the current running engine itself. So it should be true also for 4.3 -> 4.4 and a 4.4. host should be able to run a 4.3 engine, correct? In case of single 4.3.9 ovirt-node-ng host HCI with Gluster, can I apply the upgrade in a similar way? Something like: - create engine-backup and copy over to the host - put host into global maintenace - shutdown all VMS, engine included - enable 4.4. repo - install new image-base 4.4 is this correct and I can use 4.3 and 4.4 image base versions or do I have to sort-of-scratch necessarily? because 4.3 host is based on el7 while 4.4 on el8... but perhaps on mage based system I have flexibility..? what version of gluster will it be applied? Incompatibilities with the current 4.3.9 one (version 6.8-1.el7) - reboot host - exit global maintenance and wait for engine vm to come up correctly - enter global maintenance again - run the upgrade utility on the host Or do I need at least temporarily a new server to use as the 4.4. host, or what will be the expected path? Thanks, Gianluca