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Info

This section describes how to upgrade from Abiquo 5.4 to any Abiquo 6.0.x or Abiquo 6.1.x version. Please contact Abiquo Support for further information.

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Warning

This is a non-official upgrade document from which you can easily cut and paste the commands for each to prepare your own upgrade document.

  • The official upgrade document, that you must read and refer to for your upgrade is still Upgrade Abiquo

Abiquo YUM repositories are no longer open, please contact Abiquo Support to obtain your credentials

This upgrade process starts from Abiquo 5.4.0 or above. To upgrade from earlier versions, please see Upgrade Abiquo from 5.2 to 5.4.x or the appropriate page for your version.


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  • The upgrade will overwrite lang_en_US_labels.json. If you have customized labels or translations, back them up before the upgrade and restore them afterwards accordingly.

  • The upgrade will overwrite the SAML login configuration for multiple IdPs. If you use SAML with multiple IdPs, back up the configuration files before the upgrade and add the multiple IdPs afterwards accordingly. See Restore SAML security beans after upgrade


Prevent cloud users from performing VM operations

  1. In the UI in the Infrastructure view, select each physical machine and click Disable

  2. Using the API, set the state of each physical machine to DISABLED

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API servers

On each API Server do these steps. If you have a separate DB server, do the DB upgrade steps on that server.

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Additional API and UI upgrade steps

  1. Add translations for new UI labels to lang_xx_XX_custom.json. See Abiquo UI client language configuration

  2. Optionally add new configuration to client-config-custom.json. See Configure Abiquo UI

  3. In your UI configuration, check that the API endpoint is pointing to your Abiquo API server:

    Code Block
    {
    "config.endpoint": "http://<API_IP_ADDRESS>/api"
}


  4. Add new API properties to the abiquo.properties file found in the /opt/abiquo/config/ folder. See Changes to Abiquo Configuration properties


Remote services servers

On each remote services server do these steps.

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Additional RS upgrade steps

  1. Add new RS properties to the abiquo.properties file found in the /opt/abiquo/config/ folder. See Changes to Abiquo Configuration Properties


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Monitoring servers

On each Watchtower monitoring server do these steps.

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Start Abiquo server and services

Start all servers in the correct order.

Code Block
# On API Server
service httpd restart
service abiquo-tomcat start
 

# On Remote Services including V2V
service abiquo-tomcat start
 

# On the Monitoring Server, start the Cassandra service
sudo service cassandra start
 

# WAIT about 5 minutes until Cassandra is up and running
# Start the KairosDB service
sudo service kairosdb start
 

# Start the other services in this order
sudo service abiquo-emmett start
sudo service abiquo-delorean start

# In the Abiquo UI, reenable the physical machines

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