Glen, Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm sorry it has been frustrating.
When you encounter documentation errors, please do feel free to file this as a bug. In this case, I have added your comments to a very similar bug that was filed recently, as I have a feeling all the upgrade instruction errors could be fixed at one time. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-3138 Jessica T. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > The fix for Bug CLOUDSTACK-3005 may help you. > > -Wei > > > 2013/6/16 Glen Baars <g...@onsitecomputers.com.au> > > > Hello Cloudstack dev, > > > > Just wanted to share my experiences on upgrading 2.2.14 to 4.1.0 with 6 > > Xenserver 5.6SP2 hosts. > > > > The documentation doesn't work, so many errors. I ended up restoring > after > > 25 hours back to 2.2.14. > > > > I am willing to edit the docs when I get the upgrade to work. > > > > I would suggest the following changes: > > > > 1. > > Automatically take a mysqldump prior to the database upgrade. > > If it fails, revert to the dump and log. > > > > This would be faster to diag / fix and leave the db in a usable state. I > > know you should take a db backup first anyway, but this would be cleaner. > > > > 2. > > The vhd-util download isn't on the upgrade guides. > > > > 3. > > The upgrade guide for 4.1.0 incorrectly list the repos in the examples > and > > 4.0 > > > > 4. > > The upgrade guide gets cloud and Cloudstack folders wrong all the time > > > > 5. > > I had an issue with a SR-BACKEND failure that ended up being a corrupt > > vhd. This was throwing all kinds of errors with the solution. I know this > > is a Xenserver issue, just might help others with SR-BACKEND failures. > > > > 6. > > 4.0.2 Ubuntu repo install is missing the cloud-setup-encryption binaries. > > > > 7. > > Can't upgrade from 2.2.14 to 4.0.2 due to a know bug that is listed as > > solved due to 4.1.0 being released. This doesn't help when you can't get > > 4.1.0 to work. ( bug is for the database conversion missing 4.02 schema > > files ). If the upgrades don't work, can we put that on the upgrade > guide / > > release notes? > > > > This brings me to the issue that I am having. > > > > After the upgrade, I can't deploy any VDI's into the SR's. The secondary > > storage is not getting mounted on the xenservers. > > > > The errors creating the secondary storage VM is below. > > > > http://pastebin.com/H4jZutuP > > > > Any ideas? I put the vhd-util in the correct location and set the > > permissions. > > > > Just to confirm my upgrade steps > > > > 1. Upgrade my single Ubuntu 12.04LTS management server from 2.2.14 to > > 4.1.0 2. rolling pool upgrade to Xenserver 5.6SP2 to 6.1 3. run the > script > > to reboot all virtual routers and system vm's > > > > I got to step three and no routers came back up :( due the to secondary > > storage / SR issues. > > > > I have been looking for a way to contribute, maybe I can do Xenserver > > upgrade testing. I am setting up a test lab for this issue currently. > > > > Regards, > > > > Glen Baars > > > > >
