Upgrade Instruction from 4.4.x

This section will guide you from CloudStack 4.4.x to CloudStack 4.15.0.0.

Any steps that are hypervisor-specific will be called out with a note.

We recommend reading through this section once or twice before beginning your upgrade procedure, and working through it on a test system before working on a production system.

Note

The following upgrade instructions should be performed regardless of hypervisor type.

Upgrade Steps:

  1. Backup CloudStack database (MySQL)
  2. Install new systemvm template
  3. Add package repository for MySQL connector
  4. Upgrade CloudStack management server(s)
  5. Update hypervisors specific dependencies

Packages repository

Most users of CloudStack manage the installation and upgrades of CloudStack with one of Linux’s predominant package systems, RPM or APT. This guide assumes you’ll be using RPM and Yum (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS), or APT and Debian packages (for Ubuntu).

Create RPM or Debian packages (as appropriate) and a repository from the 4.15.0.0 source, or check the Apache CloudStack downloads page at http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html for package repositories supplied by community members. You will need them for Management Server on Ubuntu or Management Server on CentOS/RHEL and Hypervisor: KVM hosts upgrade.

Instructions for creating packages from the CloudStack source are in the CloudStack Installation Guide.

Update System-VM templates

  1. While running the existing 4.4.x system, log in to the UI as the root administrator.

  2. In the left navigation bar, click Templates.

  3. In Select view, click Templates.

  4. Click Register template. The Register template dialog box is displayed.

  5. In the Register template dialog box, specify the following values (do not change these):

    HypervisorDescription
    XenServer

    Name: systemvm-xenserver-4.15.0

    Description: systemvm-xenserver-4.15.0

    URL: http://download.cloudstack.org/systemvm/4.15/systemvmtemplate-4.15.0-xen.vhd.bz2

    Zone: Choose the zone where this hypervisor is used

    Hypervisor: XenServer

    Format: VHD

    OS Type: Other Linux (64-bit)

    Extractable: no

    Password Enabled: no

    Public: no

    Featured: no

    Routing: no

    KVM

    Name: systemvm-kvm-4.15.0

    Description: systemvm-kvm-4.15.0

    URL: http://download.cloudstack.org/systemvm/4.15/systemvmtemplate-4.15.0-kvm.qcow2.bz2

    Zone: Choose the zone where this hypervisor is used

    Hypervisor: KVM

    Format: QCOW2

    OS Type: Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (64-bit) (or the highest Debian release number available in the dropdown)

    Extractable: no

    Password Enabled: no

    Public: no

    Featured: no

    Routing: no

    VMware

    Name: systemvm-vmware-4.15.0

    Description: systemvm-vmware-4.15.0

    URL: http://download.cloudstack.org/systemvm/4.15/systemvmtemplate-4.15.0-vmware.ova

    Zone: Choose the zone where this hypervisor is used

    Hypervisor: VMware

    Format: OVA

    OS Type: Other Linux (64-bit)

    Extractable: no

    Password Enabled: no

    Public: no

    Featured: no

    Routing: no

    HyperV

    Name: systemvm-hyperv-4.15.0

    Description: systemvm-hyperv-4.15.0

    URL: http://download.cloudstack.org/systemvm/4.15/systemvmtemplate-4.15.0-hyperv.vhd.zip

    Zone: Choose the zone where this hypervisor is used

    Hypervisor: Hyper-V

    Format: VHD

    OS Type: Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (64-bit) (or the highest Debian release number available in the dropdown)

    Extractable: no

    Password Enabled: no

    Public: no

    Featured: no

    Routing: no

  6. Watch the screen to be sure that the template downloads successfully and enters the READY state. Do not proceed until this is successful.

Java Version Requirement

CloudStack 4.15 requires installation of Java 11 JRE for management server and the KVM agent. On installing or upgrading cloudstack-management and/or cloudstack-agent packages, please configure Java 11 as the default java version using:

  1. $ sudo alternatives --config java

Note: For Ubuntu distributions where the openjdk-11 packages are not available from the main repositories, the JRE can be installed from an external PPA such as openjdk-r. The PPA can be added before installation/upgrade:

  1. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
  2. $ sudo apt-get update

Database Preparation

Backup current database

  1. Stop your management server or servers. Run this on all management server hosts:

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-management stop

  2. If you are running a usage server or usage servers, stop those as well:

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-usage stop

  3. Make a backup of your MySQL database. If you run into any issues or need to roll back the upgrade, this will assist in debugging or restoring your existing environment. You’ll be prompted for your password.

    1. $ mysqldump -u root -p cloud > cloud-backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'.sql
    2. $ mysqldump -u root -p cloud_usage > cloud_usage-backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'.sql

Management Server on Ubuntu

If you are using Ubuntu, follow this procedure to upgrade your packages. If not, skip to step Management Server on CentOS/RHEL.

Time zone requirements

As of CloudStack 4.14, you must explicitly configure time zone either in the MySQL server or JDBC driver (db.properties). In previous CloudStack versions, UTC time zone was assumed by default (all event’s have UTC time stamps), so the same UTC time zone should now be explicitly configured.

You can do this by editing the /etc/cloudstack/management/db.properties file and adding “serverTimezone=UTC” to the “db.cloud.url.params=” and “db.usage.url.params=” lines. Example lines, from a clean 4.14 installation, are given below:

  1. db.cloud.url.params=prepStmtCacheSize=517&cachePrepStmts=true&sessionVariables=sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION'&serverTimezone=UTC
  2. db.usage.url.params=serverTimezone=UTC

Note

Community Packages: This section assumes you’re using the community supplied packages for CloudStack. If you’ve created your own packages and APT repository, substitute your own URL for the ones used in these examples.

The first order of business will be to change the sources list for each system with CloudStack packages. This means all management servers, and any hosts that have the KVM agent. (No changes should be necessary for hosts that are running VMware or Xen.)

CloudStack apt repository

Start by opening /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudstack.list on any systems that have CloudStack packages installed.

This file should have one line, which contains:

  1. deb http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu precise 4.4

We’ll change it to point to the new package repository:

  1. deb http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu precise 4.9

Setup the public key for the above repository:

  1. wget -qO - http://download.cloudstack.org/release.asc | sudo apt-key add -

If you’re using your own package repository, change this line to read as appropriate for your 4.15 repository.

  1. Now update your apt package list:

    1. $ sudo apt-get update

  2. Now that you have the repository configured, it’s time to upgrade

    the cloudstack-management package.

    1. $ sudo apt-get upgrade cloudstack-management

  3. If you use CloudStack usage server

    1. $ sudo apt-get upgrade cloudstack-usage

Management Server on CentOS/RHEL

If you are using CentOS or RHEL, follow this procedure to upgrade your packages. If not, skip to hypervisors section Hypervisor: XenServer.

Time zone requirements

As of CloudStack 4.14, you must explicitly configure time zone either in the MySQL server or JDBC driver (db.properties). In previous CloudStack versions, UTC time zone was assumed by default (all event’s have UTC time stamps), so the same UTC time zone should now be explicitly configured.

You can do this by editing the /etc/cloudstack/management/db.properties file and adding “serverTimezone=UTC” to the “db.cloud.url.params=” and “db.usage.url.params=” lines. Example lines, from a clean 4.14 installation, are given below:

  1. db.cloud.url.params=prepStmtCacheSize=517&cachePrepStmts=true&sessionVariables=sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION'&serverTimezone=UTC
  2. db.usage.url.params=serverTimezone=UTC

Note

Community Packages: This section assumes you’re using the community supplied packages for CloudStack. If you’ve created your own packages and yum repository, substitute your own URL for the ones used in these examples.

Install new MySQL connector

Starting with 4.9.0, cloudstack-management RPM’s now depend on the mysql-connector-python package. Therefore Apache CloudStack 4.15.0.0 requires the instalation of the MySQL connector on CentOS.

MySQL connector RPM repository

Add a new yum repo /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql.repo:

  1. [mysql-community]
  2. name=MySQL Community connectors
  3. baseurl=http://repo.mysql.com/yum/mysql-connectors-community/el/$releasever/$basearch/
  4. enabled=1
  5. gpgcheck=1

Import GPG public key from MySQL:

  1. rpm --import http://repo.mysql.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql

Install mysql-connector

  1. yum install mysql-connector-python

CloudStack RPM repository

The first order of business will be to change the yum repository for each system with CloudStack packages. This means all management servers, and any hosts that have the KVM agent.

(No changes should be necessary for hosts that are running VMware or Xen.)

Start by opening /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudstack.repo on any systems that have CloudStack packages installed.

This file should have content similar to the following:

  1. [apache-cloudstack]
  2. name=Apache CloudStack
  3. baseurl=http://download.cloudstack.org/rhel/4.4/
  4. enabled=1
  5. gpgcheck=0

If you are using the community provided package repository, change the base url to http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/$releasever/4.9/.

Setup the GPG public key if you wish to enable gpgcheck=1:

  1. rpm --import http://download.cloudstack.org/RPM-GPG-KEY

If you’re using your own package repository, change this line to read as appropriate for your 4.15 repository.

  1. Remove the deprecated dependency for awsapi.

    1. $ sudo rpm -e --nodeps cloudstack-awsapi

  2. Now that you have the repository configured, it’s time to upgrade the

    cloudstack-management.

    1. $ sudo yum upgrade cloudstack-management

  3. If you use CloudStack usage server

    1. $ sudo yum upgrade cloudstack-usage

Hypervisor: XenServer

(XenServer only) Copy vhd-utils file on CloudStack management servers. Copy the file vhd-utils to /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver.

  1. wget -P /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver http://download.cloudstack.org/tools/vhd-util

As of Apache CloudStack 4.4, CloudStack is not responsible to promote a new pool master on a Citrix XenServer pool. In case of failure of the pool master host, the responsability of electing a new pool master as been delegated back to the HA feature of XenServer. CloudStack remain responsible to honored HA capability for Compute Offerings of instances. The XenServer HA feature must be enabled only for the pool master, not for virtual-machines.

Make sure XenServer has enabled HA on the pool.

To test if poolHA is currently turned on:

  1. xe pool-list params=all | grep -E "ha-enabled|ha-config"

Output when poolHA is ON:

  1. ha-enabled ( RO): true
  2. ha-configuration ( RO): timeout: 180

Output when poolHA is OFF:

  1. ha-enabled ( RO): false
  2. ha-configuration ( RO):

To enable poolHA, use something like this:

  1. xe pool-enable-ha heartbeat-sr-uuids={SR-UUID} ha-config:timeout=180

Please refer to the XenServer documentation, as there are multiple ways of configuring it either on NFS, iSCSI or Fibre Channel. Be aware though, that the timeout setting is not documented. The default is 30 seconds so you may want to bump that towards 120-180 seconds.

Hypervisor: VMware

Warning

For VMware hypervisor CloudStack management server packages must be build using “noredist”. Refer to Building Non-OSS

(VMware only) Additional steps are required for each VMware cluster. These steps will not affect running guests in the cloud. These steps are required only for clouds using VMware clusters:

  1. Stop the Management Server:

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-management stop

  2. Generate the encrypted equivalent of your vCenter password:

    1. $ java -classpath /usr/share/cloudstack-common/lib/jasypt-1.9.2.jar org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringEncryptionCLI encrypt.sh input="_your_vCenter_password_" password="cat /etc/cloudstack/management/key" verbose=false

    Store the output from this step, we need to add this in cluster_details table and vmware_data_center tables in place of the plain text password

  3. Find the ID of the row of cluster_details table that you have to update:

    1. $ mysql -u <username> -p<password>
    1. select * from cloud.cluster_details;

  4. Update the plain text password with the encrypted one

    1. update cloud.cluster_details set value = '_ciphertext_from_step_1_' where id = _id_from_step_2_;

  5. Confirm that the table is updated:

    1. select * from cloud.cluster_details;

  6. Find the ID of the correct row of vmware_data_center that you

    want to update

    1. select * from cloud.vmware_data_center;

  7. update the plain text password with the encrypted one:

    1. update cloud.vmware_data_center set password = '_ciphertext_from_step_1_'
    2. where id = _id_from_step_5_;

  8. Confirm that the table is updated:

    1. select * from cloud.vmware_data_center;

Hypervisor: KVM

(KVM only) Additional steps are required for each KVM host. These steps will not affect running guests in the cloud. These steps are required only for clouds using KVM as hosts and only on the KVM hosts.

  1. Configure the APT repo as detailed above.

  2. Stop the running agent.

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-agent stop

  3. Update the agent software.

    1. $ sudo apt-get upgrade cloudstack-agent

  4. Verify that the file /etc/cloudstack/agent/environment.properties has a

    line that reads:

    1. paths.script=/usr/share/cloudstack-common

    If not, add the line.

  5. Start the agent.

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-agent start

For KVM hosts, upgrade the cloudstack-agent package

  1. Configure the CloudStack RPM repository as detailed above.

    1. $ sudo yum upgrade cloudstack-agent

  2. Verify that the file /etc/cloudstack/agent/environment.properties has a line that reads:

    1. paths.script=/usr/share/cloudstack-common

    If not, add the line.

  3. Restart the agent:

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-agent stop
    2. $ sudo service cloudstack-agent start

Restart management services

  1. If upgrading fresh installation of 4.4.0

    If you are upgrading fresh installation of CloudStack 4.4.0, the following MySQL command must be executed before restarting the management server. If the system was running pre 4.4 and then upgraded to 4.4.0, the MySQL command is not required. Refer to: CLOUDSTACK-7813

    1. use cloud;
    2. ALTER TABLE `snapshot_policy` ADD `display` TINYINT( 1 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1';

  2. Now it’s time to start the management server

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-management start

  3. If you use it, start the usage server

    1. $ sudo service cloudstack-usage start

System-VMs and Virtual-Routers

Once you’ve upgraded the packages on your management servers, you’ll need to restart the system VMs in order for those VMs to be rebuilt from the new systemVM template version.

Note

Restarting system VMs can be done in different ways. You can use script “cloudstack-sysvmadm” which is provided with CloudStack, or do a manual restart of system VMs or do it by using third-party tools such as Ansible. Below we are giving instructions for using the “cloudstack-sysvmadm” script.

Ensure that the admin port is set to 8096 by using the “integration.api.port” global parameter. This port is used by the cloudstack-sysvmadm script at the end of the upgrade procedure. For information about how to set this parameter, see configuration parameters Changing this parameter will require a management server restart.

If you run the cloudstack-sysvmadm script from outside the management server, make sure port 8096 is open in your local host firewall.

Warning

Never allow access to port 8096 from the public internet! The management server accepts API calls without authentication on this port, which can pose a serious security risk.

There is a script that will do this for you, all you need to do is run the script and supply the IP address for your MySQL instance and your MySQL credentials:

  1. # nohup cloudstack-sysvmadm -d IPaddress -u cloud -p password -a > sysvm.log 2>&1 &

You can monitor the log for progress. The process of restarting the system VMs can take an hour or more.

  1. # tail -f sysvm.log

The output to sysvm.log will look something like this:

  1. Stopping and starting 1 secondary storage vm(s)...
  2. Done stopping and starting secondary storage vm(s)
  3. Stopping and starting 1 console proxy vm(s)...
  4. Done stopping and starting console proxy vm(s).
  5. Stopping and starting 4 running routing vm(s)...
  6. Done restarting router(s).

After the upgrade process is complete, you can disable unauthenticated API access again by setting “integration.api.port” to 0. Don’t forget to restart the management server afterwards.