Did something change recently?
I've been tasked with upgrading our clusters. I hadn't done the 8 to 9 upgrade in about year, and that was on my home lab, which somehow made me 'the expert'
. For my current position, I built a test cluster, ceph, etc. I did the upgrade from 8to9, zero problems as expected. So in the last 2 weeks, I was going to rebuild the cluster starting at 8.4 and document the entire procedure for others who will be helping upgrade the other clusters I don't manage.
I was surprised when I followed my own notes(which borrow from the official install instructions) to find that I could not get any of my test nodes in the cluster to upgrade to 8.4.19, which in turn means there is no pve8to9 script installed. Yes, the repos were changed to what is required, non-subscription for the time being. Any subsequent apt update/upgrade resulted in packages being held back, I even went as far as clearing out /var/lib/apt/lists to purge any possibly weird metadata. I forgot to mention that first update, which should have brought me up to 8.4.19 but stayed at 8.4, knocked out the gui, and the normal fixes for that didn't work(restarting pveproxy, pvedaemon, and running a pvecm updatecerts --force), there is no firewall, /etc/hosts is fine and so is /etc/network/interfaces.
A full version update did upgrade the node, but this seems to me, to fall completely out of line with the official procedure. This, as expected, fixed the temporary issue of the gui not functioning. So, I am becoming a little concerned about moving forward on this until I understand what the heck is or maybe isn't transpiring. And of course, I have 77 nodes they want upgraded before the end of the month(end of 8.4 support), and yes I know this place waited till the last minute to do this, but I've only been here a short time and it was dumped on me.
I'd appreciate any words of clarity, or some direction. I did look, but I couldn't find anything related to what I have going on.
thanks,
I've been tasked with upgrading our clusters. I hadn't done the 8 to 9 upgrade in about year, and that was on my home lab, which somehow made me 'the expert'
. For my current position, I built a test cluster, ceph, etc. I did the upgrade from 8to9, zero problems as expected. So in the last 2 weeks, I was going to rebuild the cluster starting at 8.4 and document the entire procedure for others who will be helping upgrade the other clusters I don't manage.I was surprised when I followed my own notes(which borrow from the official install instructions) to find that I could not get any of my test nodes in the cluster to upgrade to 8.4.19, which in turn means there is no pve8to9 script installed. Yes, the repos were changed to what is required, non-subscription for the time being. Any subsequent apt update/upgrade resulted in packages being held back, I even went as far as clearing out /var/lib/apt/lists to purge any possibly weird metadata. I forgot to mention that first update, which should have brought me up to 8.4.19 but stayed at 8.4, knocked out the gui, and the normal fixes for that didn't work(restarting pveproxy, pvedaemon, and running a pvecm updatecerts --force), there is no firewall, /etc/hosts is fine and so is /etc/network/interfaces.
A full version update did upgrade the node, but this seems to me, to fall completely out of line with the official procedure. This, as expected, fixed the temporary issue of the gui not functioning. So, I am becoming a little concerned about moving forward on this until I understand what the heck is or maybe isn't transpiring. And of course, I have 77 nodes they want upgraded before the end of the month(end of 8.4 support), and yes I know this place waited till the last minute to do this, but I've only been here a short time and it was dumped on me.
I'd appreciate any words of clarity, or some direction. I did look, but I couldn't find anything related to what I have going on.
thanks,
