[Users] CentOS upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3

Hi all! Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this project. You may or may not remember my quest for upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and just how difficult a seemingly trivial thing can turn out to be quite the ordeal... This time around, we followed this post by dreyou on how to go from his 3.2-repo to the ovirt.org stable repo 3.3: http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_start33 And the whole process _just worked_! Something that actually made me even more nervous, left me feeling like "OK, so this is going just too well, I´ve got a bad feeling about this...":) But no, nothing ever blew us out the sky and the entire process of upgrading the engine and six hosts went through in just under the hour from start to finish! Best part is of course that our customers VM´s never even noticed; a completely live upgrade. Awesome! I mean, I worked my ass off trying to go from 3.1 to 3.2, I´ve actually put a mental block on the actual time it took, but probably six months of planning and trial and error, to have this done in under an hour... All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:) -- Med Vänliga Hälsningar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karli Sjöberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8) S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Phone: +46-(0)18-67 15 66 karli.sjoberg@slu.se

On 12/02/2013 04:32 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
Hi all!
Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this project. You may or may not remember my quest for upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and just how difficult a seemingly trivial thing can turn out to be quite the ordeal...
This time around, we followed this post by dreyou on how to go from his 3.2-repo to the ovirt.org stable repo 3.3: http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_start33
And the whole process _just worked_! Something that actually made me even more nervous, left me feeling like "OK, so this is going just too well, I´ve got a bad feeling about this...":) But no, nothing ever blew us out the sky and the entire process of upgrading the engine and six hosts went through in just under the hour from start to finish! Best part is of course that our customers VM´s never even noticed; a completely live upgrade. Awesome!
I mean, I worked my ass off trying to go from 3.1 to 3.2, I´ve actually put a mental block on the actual time it took, but probably six months of planning and trial and error, to have this done in under an hour... All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:)
glad to hear. two comments on dreyou nice post: 1. on host side, worth running 'yum update' in general, not only vdsm (for kernel, libvirt and others). 2. the recommended way to upgrade a node is to first move it to maintenance in the engine (which should live migrate the VMs to other hosts). doing without this may work, but YMMV. Thanks, Itamar

Hi Karli, On 12/02/2013 03:32 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this project.
Thank you! Your email made my day.
This time around, we followed this post by dreyou on how to go from his 3.2-repo to the ovirt.org stable repo 3.3: http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_start33
And the whole process _just worked_! Something that actually made me even more nervous, left me feeling like "OK, so this is going just too well, I´ve got a bad feeling about this...":) But no, nothing ever blew us out the sky and the entire process of upgrading the engine and six hosts went through in just under the hour from start to finish! Best part is of course that our customers VM´s never even noticed; a completely live upgrade. Awesome!
I mean, I worked my ass off trying to go from 3.1 to 3.2, I´ve actually put a mental block on the actual time it took, but probably six months of planning and trial and error, to have this done in under an hour... All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:)
I would also like to thank Dreyou for his long-time support of oVirt, first with his EL6 packages, and also with very useful documentation contributions. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

Same here, worked absolutly flawless. From me also a huge Thank you! Cheers, Juergen On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg@slu.se> wrote:
Hi all!
Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this project. You may or may not remember my quest for upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and just how difficult a seemingly trivial thing can turn out to be quite the ordeal...
This time around, we followed this post by dreyou on how to go from his 3.2-repo to the ovirt.org stable repo 3.3: http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_start33
And the whole process _just worked_! Something that actually made me even more nervous, left me feeling like "OK, so this is going just too well, I´ve got a bad feeling about this...":) But no, nothing ever blew us out the sky and the entire process of upgrading the engine and six hosts went through in just under the hour from start to finish! Best part is of course that our customers VM´s never even noticed; a completely live upgrade. Awesome!
I mean, I worked my ass off trying to go from 3.1 to 3.2, I´ve actually put a mental block on the actual time it took, but probably six months of planning and trial and error, to have this done in under an hour... All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:)
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