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titleMajor upgrade

The upgrade to Abiquo 5.2.0 is a major upgrade with upgrades of third-party software packages that are critical platform dependencies

You must make snapshots of ALL servers before you start the upgrade


Note
  • Abiquo YUM repositories are no longer open, please contact Abiquo Support to obtain your credentials
  • This upgrade process starts from Abiquo 4.7 or above. To upgrade from earlier versions, please contact Abiquo Support


Prepare branding

  • If you are upgrading from Abiquo 4.7.x, the new UI in Abiquo 5.0 requires new branding. See Abiquo branding guide


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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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Check for operations in progress on the platform

Before you shut down the platform servers you should check that no operations are in progress.

Check for operations in progress on the platform

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Check for operations in progress on the platform
Check for operations in progress on the platform


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Back up the main platform elements

Back up the main platform elements

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Back up the main platform elements
Back up the main platform elements


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If you are using HTTPS-SSL between your Tomcat servers, for each Tomcat server:

From the /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf folder, back up the server.xml files. You will need to restore and modify them after the yum upgrade.

See Upgrade Tomcat 8 to Tomcat 9 with HTTPS TLS.


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Disable old billing dashboards and delete last bills

In Abiquo 5.2, the billing dashboard feature is now in the core Abiquo platform.

If you are using the billing dashboard scripts from previous versions, disable them and delete last bills before you continue with the upgrade.

  1. On the server where you were running the billing packages, remove the Cron jobs to run the billing scripts.

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    # rm /etc/cron.d/abiquo-billing-ec2
    # rm /etc/cron.d/abiquo-billing-arm


  2. Delete the last bills from the previous version of the billing dashboards (from the kinton.billing_consolidation and kinton.billing_register tables). Remove the bills for Azure and Amazon providers, for the number of months covered by the abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset property, which has a default value of 2 months. Later the new billing dashboards feature will regenerate these bills.


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Stopplatform services

Stop platform services

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Stop platform services


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Make snapshots and backups of all platform servers

The upgrade to Abiquo 5.2.x is a major upgrade with upgrades of third-party software packages that are critical platform dependencies

You MUST make snapshots of all servers in your platform before you upgrade to Abiquo 5.2.x.


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Prepare yum repositories on all servers

Prepare yum repositories on all servers for v5.2

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Prepare yum repositories on all servers for v5.2
Prepare yum repositories on all servers for v5.2


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Upgrade distributed API and DB servers

This section describes the upgrade for a standard API and DB server.

Upgrade Distributed API and DB server to v5.2

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This section contains an alternative upgrade procedure for standalone Database servers and a Distributed API server without DB


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Upgrade standalone database servers

Upgrade standalone Database servers to v5.2

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Upgrade standalone Database servers to v5.2


Upgrade distributed API servers

Upgrade Distributed API Server without DB to v5.2

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Upgrade Distributed API Server without DB to v5.2



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Upgrade remote services servers

Upgrade remote services servers to v5.2

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Upgrade remote services servers to v5.2
Upgrade remote services servers to v5.2



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Upgrade monitoring server

Upgrade monitoring server to v5.2

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Upgrade monitoring server to v5.2


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Upgrade steps from 4.7.x to 5.0.x

Start with your original version and perform the steps to the final version.

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Upgrade steps from 5.0.x to 5.1.x

Start with your original version and perform the steps to the final version.

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Upgrade steps from 5.1.x to 5.2.x

Start with your original version and perform the steps to the final version.

When upgrading from 5.1.0 or 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 or above, follow the steps from the Upgrade steps from 5.0.x to 5.1.x block.


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Upgrade steps to remove old VSM definitions for Redis
Upgrade steps to remove old VSM definitions for Redis


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Upgrade steps for 5.2 versions

These steps apply to upgrades starting from version 5.2.0 and above.


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Upgrade steps for 5.2 versions

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Configure Abiquo after the upgrade

  1. Before you start the Abiquo Tomcat server, add Abiquo configuration properties to the abiquo.properties file.
    By default the abiquo.properties file is found in the /opt/abiquo/config/ folder.
    See Changes to Abiquo configuration properties

  2. Configure the user interface. The default UI location is /var/www/html/ui.
    Optional: Add custom labels and translations in the lang_xx_XX_custom.json files in the lang folder
    Add custom configuration to client-config-custom.json. See Configure Abiquo UI
    If your API is not in the same domain as the UI, set the API endpoint pointing to your Abiquo API server:

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    {
        "config.endpoint": "http://myAPIserver/api"
    }


  3. Reporting changes: To upgrade the Abiquo Reports database for the upgrade to Abiquo 4.7.x+, contact Abiquo Support for the file and procedure.


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Start Abiquo servers and services

Start Abiquo servers and services

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