Replying to my own mail since upgrading opportunities are not many. Considering the procdure mentioned worked very well, it needs some refinement. On 24.09.2014 13:30, Daniel Helgenberger wrote: > Hello Nathanaël, > > I think the supposed way to upgrade would be: Here you need to insert: # yum update engine-setup on the engine (and for a new major version also new .repo files) this is necessary since the engine-setup utility cannot upgrade itself (though this might be doable; RFE? :) > > * (hosted-engine only) put cluster in global maintenance if running > hosted-enfgine > * upgrade Engine using engine-setup (this *should* detect product updates) > * (hosted-engine only) disable global maintenance > * Put host in maintenance mode (witch will migrate VMs automatically) This did not work for the hosted engine VM for some reason; I migrated it manually. Is this intentional? > * Click 'reinstall host' in Engine (this step will will invoke yum update?) > * Activate host > > continue with the other hosts > > > If there are kernel updates, I usually update them as well in the > process (involving manual yum). > > Can anyone clarify if 'reinstall host' invokes yum? Thanks! It will run yum update; but only on oVirt packages. One might want to run it again to update all other system packages. Again, this makes sense. > > > On 24.09.2014 11:41, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm about to update to 3.4.4 with the associated vdsm. Updating vdsm with >> yum is >> trivial, but it usually breaks running vms on the host. >> So these are the steps I follow each time: >> >> * live migrating runnings vms to a another host in the cluster >> * putting the host in maintenance >> * updating vdsm >> * activating the host >> * getting back the vms >> * and so on with the other hosts... >> >> But sometimes it is not enough, I need to reinstall the host so as to the >> host >> be able to successfully activate. >> >> When getting back the vms on the initial host, I must do it manually to load >> balance vms between the hosts and this is not very convinient. >> >> So my question is : do I update in the right way, or is there any >> recommendations that I didn't find anyway? >> >> Thanks. >>
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