Re: [ovirt-users] Upgrade patch 3.5 -> 3.6

On Monday, February 15, 2016 08:21:40 PM Johan Kooijman wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Thanks for the input! My 3.5 is running on C6 however: > > Upgrade of All-in-One on EL6 is not supported in 3.6. VDSM and the packages > requiring it are not built anymore for EL6 > Well that was a piece of information you forgot to mention in your initial email. So now I am not entirely sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to save your existing VMs when you reinstall your machine? > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Alexander Wels <awels(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 02:40:47 PM Johan Kooijman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can anybody recommend me best practice upgrade path for an upgrade from > > > oVirt 3.5 on C6 to 3.6 on C7.2? > > > > The answer sort of depends on what you want. Do you want no downtime on > > your > > VMs or is downtime acceptable. Also are you running hosted engine or not? > > > > This is the basic plan which can be adjusted based on what your needs are: > > > > 1. Update engine from 3.5 to 3.6 (if hosted engine might be trickier, not > > sure > > haven't played with hosted engine). > > 2. Create a new 3.6 cluster. > > 3. Put 1 host in maintenance (which will migrate the VMs to the other > > hosts). > > 4. Remove the host from the DC. > > 5. Install C7.2 on the host > > 6. Add that host to the new 3.6 cluster. > > 7. Optional (you can cross cluster live migrate some VMs from 6 to 7 (just > > not > > the other way around, so once the VM is moved its stuck in the new > > cluster). > > 8. Go to 3 until all hosts are moved. > > 9. Your 3.5 cluster should now be empty, and can be removed. > > 10. Upgrade your DC to 3.6 (Can't upgrade if any lower clusters exist). > > > > If you can have downtime, then just shut down the VMs running on the host > > in > > step 3 before putting it in maintenance. Once the host is moved to the new > > cluster you can start the VMs. > > > > Alexander > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users