[ovirt-users] oVirt 4.2 upgrade procedure.

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 28 Dec 2017, at 13:23, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Eduardo Mayoral <emayoral at arsys.es> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>    I just started upgrading one of our oVirt installations from 4.1.8
>> to 4.2
>> 
>>    Engine is NOT self hosted. It is a plain CentOS 7.4 server.
>> 
>>    Compute hosts (10 of them) are CentOS 7.4 as well. Storage is mainly
>> iSCSI served from an external storage system.
>> 
>>    Engine upgrade was seamless. Now I want to upgrade the hosts, then
>> change the cluster compatibility level, then the datacenter
>> compatibility. Can someone confirm that this is the correct sequence?

yes it is

>> 
>>    On the first host, I put it in maintenance mode, installed
>> centos-release-ovirt42 and removed centos-release-ovirt41.
>> 
>>    When doing the upgrade host from the web interface, I get:
>> 
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:46,054 p=7173 u=ovirt |  Using
>> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/playbooks/ansible.cfg as config file
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:46,288 p=7173 u=ovirt |  PLAY [all]
>> *********************************************************************
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:46,316 p=7173 u=ovirt |  TASK [ovirt-host-upgrade :
>> Install ovirt-host package if it isn't installed] ***
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:51,143 p=7173 u=ovirt |  fatal: [llki612.arsyslan.es]:
>> FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "No package matching 'ovirt-host'
>> found available, installed or updated", "rc": 126, "results": ["No
>> package matching 'ovirt-host' found available, installed or updated"]}
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:51,144 p=7173 u=ovirt |  PLAY RECAP
>> *********************************************************************
>> 2017-12-28 10:58:51,144 p=7173 u=ovirt |  llki612.arsyslan.es        :
>> ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1
>> 
>> Now, I see the ovirt-host package is not installed or available on the
>> Compute node. It is available on the ovirt-engine on repo "ovirt-4.2"
>> (which is installed by ovirt-release42-4.2.0-1.el7.centos.noarch)
>> 
>> I am a bit confused here. I thought I only needed centos-release-ovirt42
>> (centos-ovirt42 repo) on the compute hosts. Is that so? Has this changed
>> from 4.1 to 4.2?
> 
> I do not think this was changed.
> 
> Where did you find instructions to install centos-release-ovirt42?

right. this one only has CentOS bits (virt specific, but still it doesn’t include packages we distribute in oVirt like all ovirt-*)

> 
> Generally speaking, oVirt repos are available by installing ovirt-release*.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your help!
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayoral at arsys.es)
>> Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet.
>> +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153
>> 
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