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Admin Guide 1. Abiquo: Upgrading

This section describes how to prepare to upgrade from any previous version of Abiquo 3.x to the current version. Please contact Abiquo Support for further information.

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Prevent cloud users from performing VM operations

  • In the UI Infrastructure tab, select each physical machine and click Disable
  • Using the API, set the state of each physical machine to DISABLED

Check for operations in progress on the platform

  1. Check that the Abiquo RabbitMQ queues are empty. The number of messages in all queues must be 0:

    On standard environment, the RabbitMQ service is in the Abiquo API server. Depending on the environment, this will by the Abiquo Monolithic or the Abiquo Server appliance.



  2. Check for any active V2V conversions by checking for the V2V or Mechadora processes

Stop platform services

  1. Abiquo Server

  2. Remote Services

  3. V2V Server
    1. The BPM remote service is run on-demand only, so there is no need to stop anything


  4. KVM

  5. LVM

Back up the main platform elements

  1. Back up MySQL

  2. Back up Redis

    Copy the dump of the database from /var/lib/redis/dump.rdb to a secure location

  3. Back up the contents of opt abiquo

  4. Backup user interface