[Users] Upgrade 3.1 to 3.2

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/07/2013 11:57 AM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
> Hmmm, http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_update31to32
> says that we'd have to put the host into Maintenance mode before
> upgrade, is it not possible to run a live upgrade ?
>
> I don't have enough spare hardware to move VMs to for the upgrade of the
> Hyper-Visors (Ovirt nodes), the VMs cannot be stopped during the day
> either, we run multiple environments on them by now and are critical for
> development work.
>
> Anyone a idea of how to get onto 3.2 w/o having to stop the VMs ? If
> there is now way, fair enoug (i guess), and we'll have to look at
> alternative temporary hardware & disk before upgrading, however, it'd be
> really great if someone found a way ?

upgrading the engine shouldn't require stopping the hosts/VMs.
for upgrading a host it is recommended to move the host to maintenance 
first.


>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On 7 March 2013 09:50, Alex Leonhardt <alex.tuxx at gmail.com
> <mailto:alex.tuxx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm also overdue to test this, so stay tuned :) .. I've heard from a
>     different Alex :) that the engine / db got really messed up when he
>     tried, so best to do a backup of everything before attempting a
>     upgrade !
>
>     Alex
>
>
>     On 7 March 2013 09:04, Neil <nwilson123 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nwilson123 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Thanks Alexandr, I hadn't seen that one.
>
>         Will go through it.
>
>         Thank you very much!
>
>         On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Alexandr
>         <shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua <mailto:shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua>> wrote:
>          > 07.03.2013 10:16, Neil пишет:
>          >> Hi guys,
>          >>
>          >> Does anyone have any successful upgrades from 3.1 to 3.2
>         using Centos
>          >> 6.3 and the Dreyou repos?
>          >>
>          >> I'm using ovirt 3.1 on our own production systems and would
>         like to
>          >> know the recommended upgrade methods/paths. I don't see much
>         in the
>          >> way of upgrade paths for any distributions for that matter.
>          >>
>          >> I've done quite a lot of googling and can't find much, also
>         checked on
>          >> the ovirt website for any possible guides or methods without
>         much
>          >> success.
>          >>
>          >> Thanks in advance.
>          >>
>          >> Regards.
>          >>
>          >> Neil Wilson.
>          >>
>          > Have you seen this article
>          >
>         http://wiki.dreyou.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ovirt_rpm_update31to32
>          >
>          >
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