Upgrading Single Front-end Deployments

If you are upgrading from a 6.8.x installation you only need to follow a reduced set of steps. If you are running a 6.6.x version or older, please check these set of steps (some additional ones may apply, please review them at the end of the section).

Important

Users of the Community Edition of OpenNebula can upgrade from the previous stable version if they are running a non-commercial OpenNebula cloud. In order to access the migrator package a request needs to be made through this online form. In order to use these non-commercial migrators to upgrade to the latest CE release (OpenNebula 6.6), you will need to upgrade your existing OpenNebula environment first to CE Patch Release 6.6.0.1

Important

If you haven’t done so, please enable the OpenNebula and needed 3rd party repositories before attempting the upgrade process. If you want to use Docker related functionality of OpenNebula and/or OpenNebula Edge Clusters provisioning you’ll need to follow this for RedHat or this for Debian distributions.

Upgrading from 6.8.x

This section describes the installation procedure for systems that are already running a 6.8.x OpenNebula. The upgrade to OpenNebula 6.8 can be done directly following this section, you don’t need to perform intermediate version upgrades. The upgrade will preserve all current users, hosts, resources and configurations.

When performing a minor upgrade OpenNebula adheres to the following convention to ease the process:

• No changes are made to the configuration files, so no configuration file will be changed during the upgrade.

• Database versions are preserved, so no upgrade of the database schema is needed.

When a critical bug requires an exception to the previous rules it will be explicitly noted in this guide.

Step 1. Stop OpenNebula Services

Before proceeding, make sure you don’t have any VMs in a transient state (prolog, migr, epil, save). Wait until these VMs get to a final state (run, suspended, stopped, done). Check the Managing Virtual Machines guide for more information on the VM life-cycle.

Now you are ready to stop OpenNebula and any other related services you may have running, e.g. Sunstone or OneFlow. It’s preferable to use the system tools, like systemctl or service as root in order to stop the services.

Step 2. Upgrade Front-end to the New Version

Upgrade the OpenNebula software using the package manager of your OS. Refer to the Single Front-end Installation guide for a complete list of the OpenNebula packages installed on your system. Package repos need to be pointing to the latest version (6.8).

For example, in CentOS/RHEL simply execute:

yum upgrade opennebula

For Debian/Ubuntu use:

apt-get update
apt-get install --only-upgrade opennebula

Step 3. Upgrade Hypervisors to the New Version

You can skip this section for vCenter Hosts.

Upgrade the OpenNebula node KVM or LXD packages, using the package manager of your OS.

For example, in a rpm-based Linux distribution simply execute:

yum upgrade opennebula-node-kvm

For deb-based distros use:

apt-get update
apt-get install --only-upgrade opennebula-node-kvm

Note

If you are using LXD the package is opennebula-node-lxd.

Step 4. Update the Drivers

You should now be able to start OpenNebula as usual, running service opennebula start as root. At this point, as oneadmin user, execute onehost sync to update the new drivers in the Hosts.

Note

You can skip this step if you are not using KVM Hosts, or any Hosts that use remote monitoring probes.

Testing

OpenNebula will continue the monitoring and management of your previous Hosts and VMs.

As a measure of caution, look for any error messages in oned.log, and check that all drivers are loaded successfully. After that, keep an eye on oned.log while you issue the onevm, onevnet, oneimage, oneuser, onehost list commands. Try also using the show subcommand for some resources.

Restoring the Previous Version

If for any reason you need to restore your previous OpenNebula, simply uninstall OpenNebula 6.8, and install again your previous version. After that, update the drivers if needed, as outlined in the Step 12 below.

Upgrading from 5.6 and higher

Step 1. Check Virtual Machine Status

Before proceeding, make sure you don’t have any VMs in a transient state (prolog, migrate, epilog, save). Wait until these VMs get to a final state (running, suspended, stopped, done). Check the Managing Virtual Machines guide for more information on the VM life-cycle.

Step 2. Set All Hosts to Disable Mode

Set all Hosts to disable mode to stop all monitoring processes.

onehost disable <host_id>

Step 3. Stop OpenNebula

Stop OpenNebula and any other related services you may have running: OneFlow, OneGate, Sunstone & FireEdge. It’s preferable to use the system tools, like systemctl or service as root in order to stop the services.

Important

If you are running Sunstone behind Apache/Nginx, please stop this service instead of Sunstone one.

Warning

Make sure that every OpenNebula process is stopped. The output of systemctl list-units | grep opennebula should be empty.

Step 4. Back-up OpenNebula Configuration

Back-up the configuration files located in /etc/one and /var/lib/one/remotes/etc. You don’t need to do a manual backup of your database; the onedb command will perform one automatically.

cp -ra /etc/one /etc/one.$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
cp -ra /var/lib/one/remotes/etc /var/lib/one/remotes/etc.$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
onedb backup

Step 5. Upgrade OpenNebula Packages Repository

In order to be able to retrieve the packages for the latest version, you need to update the OpenNebula packages repository. The instructions for doing this are detailed here.

Step 6. Upgrade to the New Version

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get update
apt-get install --only-upgrade opennebula opennebula-sunstone opennebula-gate opennebula-flow opennebula-provision opennebula-fireedge python3-pyone

RHEL

yum upgrade opennebula opennebula-sunstone opennebula-gate opennebula-flow opennebula-provision opennebula-fireedge python3-pyone

Important

When upgrading an existing deployment which could be running OpenNebula older than 5.10.0 anytime in the past, you might need to upgrade also required Ruby dependencies with script install_gems if you are not yet using the shipped Ruby gems (i.e., when symbolic link /usr/share/one/gems doesn’t exist on your Front-end)!

If unsure, run /usr/share/one/install_gems and the script warns if action is not relevant for you. For example:

/usr/share/one/install_gems
WARNING: Running install_gems is not necessary anymore, as all the
required dependencies are already installed by your packaging
system into symlinked location /usr/share/one/gems. Ruby gems
installed by this script won't be used until this symlink exists.
Remove the symlink before starting the OpenNebula services
to use Ruby gems installed by this script. E.g. execute

    # unlink /usr/share/one/gems

Execution continues in 15 seconds ...

Read this for more information.

Community Edition

There is an additional step if you are upgrading OpenNebula CE. After you get the opennebula-migration-community package, you need to install it in the OpenNebula Front-end.

RHEL

rpm -i opennebula-migration-community*.rpm

Debian/Ubuntu

dpkg -i opennebula-migration-community*.deb

Step 7. Update Configuration Files

In HA setups it is necessary to replace in the file /etc/one/monitord.conf the default value auto of MONITOR_ADDRESS attributed to the virtual IP address used in RAFT_LEADER_HOOK and RAFT_FOLLOWER_HOOK in /etc/one/oned.conf.

Community Edition

In order to update the configuration files with your existing customizations you’ll need to:

• Compare the old and new configuration files: diff -ur /etc/one.YYYY-MM-DD /etc/one and diff -ur /var/lib/one/remotes/etc.YYYY-MM-DD /var/lib/one/remotes/etc. You can use graphical diff-tools like meld to compare both directories; they are very useful in this step.

• Edit the new files and port all the customizations from the previous version.

Enterprise Edition

If you have modified configuration files, let’s use onecfg to automate the configuration file upgrades.

Before upgrading OpenNebula, you need to ensure that the configuration state is clean without any pending migrations from past or outdated configurations. Run onecfg status to check the configuration state.

A clean state might look like this:

onecfg status
--- Versions ------------------------------
OpenNebula:  5.8.5
Config:      5.8.0

--- Available Configuration Updates -------
No updates available.

Unknown Configuration Version Error

If you get error message about an unknown configuration version, you don’t need to do anything. The configuration version will be automatically initialized during the OpenNebula upgrade. The configuration of the current version will be based on the former OpenNebula version.

onecfg status
--- Versions ------------------------------
OpenNebula:  5.8.5
Config:      unknown
ERROR: Unknown config version

Configuration Metadata Outdated Error

If the configuration tool complains about outdated metadata, you have not run a configuration upgrade during some of the past OpenNebula upgrades. Please note, configuration must be upgraded or processed with even OpenNebula’s maintenance releases.

The following invalid state:

onecfg status
--- Versions ------------------------------
OpenNebula:  5.8.5
Config:      5.8.0
ERROR: Configurations metadata are outdated.

needs to be fixed by reinitialization of the configuration state. Any unprocessed upgrades will be lost and the current state will be initialized based on your current OpenNebula version and configurations located in system directories.

onecfg init --force
onecfg status
--- Versions ------------------------------
OpenNebula:  5.8.5
Config:      5.8.5

--- Available Configuration Updates -------
No updates available.

After checking the state of configuration, in most cases running the following command without any extra parameters will suffice, as it will upgrade the probes based on the internal configuration version tracking of the currently installed OpenNebula.

onecfg upgrade
ANY   : Backup stored in '/tmp/onescape/backups/2020-6...
ANY   : Configuration updated to 6.2.1

If you get conflicts when running onecfg upgrade refer to the onecfg upgrade basic usage documentation on how to upgrade and troubleshoot the configurations, in particular the onecfg upgrade doc and the troubleshooting section.

FireEdge public endpoint is not working

After updating the configuration file /etc/one/sunstone-server.conf, if you didn’t install FireEdge FireEdge you might get an error like this FireEdge public endpoint is not working, please contact your cloud administrator in the Web GUI. By default this configuration file will have the following configuration enabled.

tail -n 5 /etc/one/sunstone-server.conf
# FireEdge
################################################################################

:private_fireedge_endpoint: http://localhost:2616
:public_fireedge_endpoint: http://localhost:2616

If you don’t want to use the new feature, comment these out in order to get rid of the error.

Note

After doing the change, please restart Sunseont or Apache/Nginx in case you are using Sunstone behind one of them.

Step 8. Upgrade the Database Version

Important

Users of the Community Edition of OpenNebula can upgrade from the previous stable version if they are running a non-commercial OpenNebula cloud. In order to access the migrator package a request needs to be made through this online form.

Make sure at this point that OpenNebula is not running. If you installed from packages, the service may have been started automatically. Simply run the onedb upgrade -v command. The connection parameters are automatically retrieved from /etc/one/oned.conf.

Step 9. Check DB Consistency

First, move the 6.8 backup file created by the upgrade command to a safe place. If you face any issues, the onedb command can restore this backup, but it won’t downgrade databases to previous versions. Then, execute the onedb fsck command:

onedb fsck
MySQL dump stored in /var/lib/one/mysql_localhost_opennebula.sql
Use 'onedb restore' or restore the DB using the mysql command:
mysql -u user -h server -P port db_name < backup_file

Total errors found: 0

Step 10. Start OpenNebula

Start OpenNebula and any other related services: OneFlow, OneGate, Sunstone & FireEdge. It’s preferable to use the system tools, like systemctl or service as root in order to stop the services.

Important

If you are running Sunstone behind Apache/Nginx, please start this service instead of Sunstone one.

Step 11. Restore Custom Probes

If you have any custom monitoring probes, follow these instructions, to update them to the new monitoring system

Step 12. Update the Hypervisors

Warning

If you’re using vCenter please skip to the next step.

Update the virtualization, storage and networking drivers. As the oneadmin user, execute:

onehost sync

Then log in to your hypervisor Hosts and update the opennebula-node packages:

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install --only-upgrade opennebula-node-<hypervisor>

RHEL

yum upgrade opennebula-node-<hypervisor>

Note

Note that the <hypervisor> tag should be replaced by the name of the corresponding hypervisor (i.e kvm, lxc or firecracker).

Important

For KVM hypervisor it’s necessary to restart also the libvirt service

Step 13. Enable Hosts

Enable all Hosts, disabled in step 2:

onehost enable <host_id>

After following all the steps, please review the corresponding guide:

• Additional Steps for 5.8.x
• Additional Steps for 5.6.x

Testing

OpenNebula will continue the monitoring and management of your previous Hosts and VMs.

As a measure of caution, look for any error messages in oned.log, and check that all drivers are loaded successfully. You may also try some show subcommand for some resources to check everything is working (e.g. onehost show, or onevm show).

Restoring the Previous Version

If for any reason you need to restore your previous OpenNebula, simply uninstall OpenNebula 6.8, and install again your previous version. After that, update the drivers if needed, as outlined in Step 12.