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

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 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 at ihtfp.com> 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?)
>
>
Yes, exactly.
For emergency issue you also have hosted-engine --vm-poweroff to perform an
instant poweroff.


> > 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
>
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>
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