Hi Folks,
I am planning an upgrade of a standalone single PVE version 3.4 to the latest PVE version 4.3
I am going to test the upgrade in a VirtualBox on my laptop.
I am reading this page - https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0 - but wondered if I have to go to PVE version 4.0 first and then hop to each version up to the latest 4.3 or whether I can go 3.4 to 4.3 in one go?
What pitfalls am I expecting here and what problems have people encountered that are not in the documentation?
Obviously, I know that each PVE installation is kind of different, but I would rather have 10 browser tabs open ready for the expected than have more downtime and frantically pressing Google Search!?!
Homebrew server, 8 core CPU, 32GB RAM, Software RAID 1 with 3 x 3TB drives, with 8 VMs and no Containers:-
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda3[2] sdc3[3](S) sdb3[1]
2929610560 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sda2[2] sdc2[3](S) sdb2[1]
521920 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root ext3 102G 22G 76G 22% /
/dev/mapper/pve-data ext3 2.9T 727G 2.1T 26% /var/lib/vz
/dev/md0 ext3 518M 71M 420M 15% /boot
/dev/fuse fuse 32M 17k 32M 1% /etc/pve
172.16.0.2:/ProxMox nfs 12T 6.1T 5.8T 52% /mnt/pve/nfs1
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
sdb 8:16 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 1M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdb3 8:19 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
sdc 8:32 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 1M 0 part
├─sdc2 8:34 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdc3 8:35 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.4-150 (running kernel: 2.6.32-37-pve)
pve-manager: 3.4-3 (running version: 3.4-3/2fc72fee)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-32-pve: 2.6.32-136
pve-kernel-2.6.32-37-pve: 2.6.32-150
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.7-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10-2
pve-cluster: 3.0-16
qemu-server: 3.4-3
pve-firmware: 1.1-4
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-24
libpve-access-control: 3.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-32
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-8
vzctl: 4.0-1pve6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.2-8
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-1
Thanks.
Paully
I am planning an upgrade of a standalone single PVE version 3.4 to the latest PVE version 4.3
I am going to test the upgrade in a VirtualBox on my laptop.
I am reading this page - https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_3.x_to_4.0 - but wondered if I have to go to PVE version 4.0 first and then hop to each version up to the latest 4.3 or whether I can go 3.4 to 4.3 in one go?
What pitfalls am I expecting here and what problems have people encountered that are not in the documentation?
Obviously, I know that each PVE installation is kind of different, but I would rather have 10 browser tabs open ready for the expected than have more downtime and frantically pressing Google Search!?!
Homebrew server, 8 core CPU, 32GB RAM, Software RAID 1 with 3 x 3TB drives, with 8 VMs and no Containers:-
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda3[2] sdc3[3](S) sdb3[1]
2929610560 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sda2[2] sdc2[3](S) sdb2[1]
521920 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root ext3 102G 22G 76G 22% /
/dev/mapper/pve-data ext3 2.9T 727G 2.1T 26% /var/lib/vz
/dev/md0 ext3 518M 71M 420M 15% /boot
/dev/fuse fuse 32M 17k 32M 1% /etc/pve
172.16.0.2:/ProxMox nfs 12T 6.1T 5.8T 52% /mnt/pve/nfs1
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
sdb 8:16 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 1M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdb3 8:19 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
sdc 8:32 0 2.7T 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 1M 0 part
├─sdc2 8:34 0 510M 0 part
│ └─md0 9:0 0 509.7M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdc3 8:35 0 2.7T 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 2.7T 0 raid1
├─pve-root (dm-0) 253:0 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 15G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─pve-data (dm-2) 253:2 0 2.6T 0 lvm /var/lib/vz
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.4-150 (running kernel: 2.6.32-37-pve)
pve-manager: 3.4-3 (running version: 3.4-3/2fc72fee)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-32-pve: 2.6.32-136
pve-kernel-2.6.32-37-pve: 2.6.32-150
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.7-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10-2
pve-cluster: 3.0-16
qemu-server: 3.4-3
pve-firmware: 1.1-4
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-24
libpve-access-control: 3.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-32
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-8
vzctl: 4.0-1pve6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.2-8
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-1
Thanks.
Paully
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