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    The document provides an overview of the process for upgrading from oVirt 4.3 to 4.4. It notes that 4.4 is a major release requiring CentOS/RHEL 8.2 and that existing installations cannot be directly upgraded from 7.x. It outlines backing up the engine database, reinstalling oVirt 4.4 on the new OS, restoring the backup, and replacing host systems. Questions addressed include whether to fully update to the latest 4.3 first, whether rollbacks are possible, what will happen to existing VMs, and expected downtime.

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    oVirt 4.3 to 4.

    4 Upgrade
    Deep Dive

    Lev Veyde
    Senior Software Engineer
    Red Hat Israel

    1
    4.4 - (Not) Some
    minor release
    (More like oVirt 5.0)

    2
    CentOS/RHEL 8.x

    - CentOS/RHEL 8.2+

    - No in place upgrade from CentOS/RHEL 7.x

    3
    Pre-requisites

    - Update oVirt to 4.3

    - Data Center and Cluster compatibility level set to 4.2+

    4
    Process overview
    (Standalone)
    - Stop the engine service

    - Backup the 4.3 engine DB

    - Re-Install 4.4 engine on top of CentOS/RHEL 8.2

    - Restore the engine DB from backup

    - Replace the hosts

    5
    Backup the
    engine DB
    # engine-backup --scope=all --mode=backup --file=backup.bck –log=backuplog.log

    6
    # systemctl stop ovirt-engine

    # time engine-backup --scope=all --mode=backup --file=backup.bck --log=backuplog.log

    Start of engine-backup with mode 'backup'

    scope: all

    archive file: backup.bck

    log file: backuplog.log

    Backing up:

    Notifying engine

    - Files

    - Engine database 'engine'

    - DWH database 'ovirt_engine_history'

    Packing into file 'backup.bck'

    Notifying engine

    Done.

    real 0m7.478s

    7
    user 0m1.704s

    sys 0m1.108s
    Restore the
    engine DB
    # engine-backup --mode=restore --file=backup.bck --log=restore.log --provision-db

    --provision-dwh-db --restore-permissions

    8
    Run the engine
    setup
    # engine-setup

    9
    Demo

    10
    Process overview
    (Self-Hosted)
    - Stop the engine service

    - Backup the 4.3 engine DB

    - Move to Global Maintenance

    - Re-Install 4.4 host based on CentOS/RHEL 8.2

    - Restore the engine DB from backup

    - Replace the hosts


    11
    Backup the
    engine DB
    # engine-backup --scope=all --mode=backup --file=backup.bck --log=backuplog.log

    12
    Restore the
    engine DB
    # hosted-engine --deploy –restore-from-file=/root/backup.bck

    13
    Questions?

    - Should I update to 4.3 latest first or any 4.3 is OK?

    - Is there a rollback?

    - What happens to the current VMs?

    - How much downtime we can expect?

    14
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