Upgrade Abiquo distributed to v5.2.x

This section describes how to upgrade from Abiquo 4.7.0 or above to an Abiquo 5.2.x version. Please contact Abiquo Support for further information.

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

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

Check for operations in progress on the platform

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

1. Check that the Abiquo RabbitMQ queues are empty on the Abiquo Monolithic Server, Abiquo Server or Datanode server

   The number of messages in all queues must be 0.

   # rabbitmqctl list_queues messages name

   # rabbitmqctl list_queues messages name
   Listing queues ...
   0	abiquo.am.notifications
   0	abiquo.bpm.notifications
   0	abiquo.datacenter.requests.ADatacenter.bpm
   0	abiquo.datacenter.requests.ADatacenter.virtualfactory
   0	abiquo.ha.tasks
   0	abiquo.nodecollector.notifications
   0	abiquo.pcrsync.messages
   0	abiquo.pcrsync.parking-expect-no-consumers
   0	abiquo.scheduler.fast.requests
   0	abiquo.scheduler.requests
   0	abiquo.scheduler.slow.requests
   0	abiquo.tracer.traces
   0	abiquo.virtualfactory.notifications
   0	abiquo.virtualmachines.definitionsyncs
   0	abiquo.vsm.eventsynk
   ...done.

2. On the V2V Server, check for any active conversions by checking for the V2V or Mechadora processes

   $ ps aux | grep v2v
   $ ps aux | grep mechadora

When user VM operations are blocked and all of the above checks show that no tasks are running, it is safe to halt the platform.

Back up the main platform elements

To perform a basic backup of the platform, run the following backups:

# On DB server, back up the Abiquo MySQL DBs
mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton            > kinton.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton_accounting > kinton_accounting.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On the Monitoring server, back up Watchtower DB
mysqldump --routines --triggers watchtower            > watchtower.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On the Abiquo API Server or UI server, back up the UI
tar cvfz /var/www/html/ui.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /var/www/html/ui

# If you are using SAML authentication with multiple IdPs, on ALL Abiquo API Servers, back up this file
cp 
/opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml-$(date
 +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

# On ALL servers, back up the /opt/abiquo folder
tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo

# On Abiquo Monolithic or API Server, Remote Services, or Datanode, back up Redis
redis-cli save
cp -a /var/lib/redis /var/lib/redis-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)

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.

   # 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.

Stopplatform services

This section describes how to stop platform services on all servers.

To stop platform services:

1. Stop the API on the API server or Monolithic server

   systemctl stop abiquo-tomcat

2. Stop the UI on the API server or Monolithic server or dedicated UI server

   systemctl stop httpd

3. Stop Remote services server

   systemctl stop abiquo-tomcat

4. Stop the database on the Monolithic server or Database server or Datanode server.

   systemctl stop mariadb

   For a datanode configuration, you will also need to stop the Galera cluster. For more details, see Stop and start HA configuration

5. Stop RabbitMQ (on the monolithic server or API Server or Datanode)

   systemctl stop rabbitmq-server

6. V2V server -
   You do not need to stop anything because the BPM remote service is run on-demand only

7. Stop monitoring server

   systemctl stop abiquo-delorean
   systemctl stop abiquo-emmett
   systemctl stop kairosdb
   systemctl stop cassandra

8. On the monitoring server, check if Cassandra is really dead

   ps auwx | grep cassandra

   Get the process number for Cassandra (the first number in the output of the previous command), and kill it. In this example, Cassandra is process 12345.

   kill -9 12345

All processes on platform servers should now be halted.

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.

Prepare yum repositories on all servers

Prepare yum repositories on all servers for v5.2

Upgrade distributed API and DB servers

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

These steps are for a Distributed API Server with the database on the API server.

Abiquo will upgrade to new versions of RabbitMQ and MySQL that require a manual upgrade path of dependencies.

1. Remove the Erlang and Galera packages.

   yum remove erlang* galera
   yum clean all && yum makecache

2. Install new RabbitMQ and MariaDB server

   yum install rabbitmq-server MariaDB-server

   Before you confirm, check that the packages will be installed from the abiquo-base repository

   1. rabbitmq-server: 3.8.2.1

   2. MariaDB-server: 10.4.10.1

3. Upgrade Abiquo to 5.2.x

   yum update

   Before you confirm, check the following packages will be installed from the abiquo-base repository:

   1. jdk: 11.0.6u10

   2. redis: 5.0.7.1

4. After the update, check versions.

   Check that the symbolic link to the latest version of Java points to Java 11 on Monolithic Server or Datanode

   # cd /usr/java
   # ll
   latest -> /usr/java/jdk-11.0.6+10

   Check that the correct Tomcat version will be used on the Monolithic Server

   # cd /opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin
   # sh version.sh
   Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/abiquo/tomcat
   Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/abiquo/tomcat
   Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/abiquo/tomcat/temp
   Using JRE_HOME:        /usr
   Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
   NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS:  --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
   Server version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.33
   Server built:   Mar 11 2020 09:31:38 UTC
   Server number:  9.0.33.0
   OS Name:        Linux
   OS Version:     3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64
   Architecture:   amd64
   JVM Version:    11.0.6+10
   JVM Vendor:     AdoptOpenJDK

   On the Monolithic Server in the JDK folder, check certificate migration for AM download. The API Server certificate should be listed for Java 11 with its FQDN. You may need to enter the storepass option to supply the password and you can use the alias option to search for the hostname or FQDN of your server

   # cd /usr/java/jdk-11.0.6+10/lib/security
   # keytool -list -keystore cacerts -alias (hostname or fqdn)

   For example

   sudo keytool -list -keystore cacerts -alias abiquo.example.com

5. Enable and start the new services

   systemctl enable mariadb
   systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
   systemctl start mariadb
   systemctl start rabbitmq-server

6. Upgrade MySQL

   mysql_upgrade

   The mysql_upgrade step may detect errors that trigger messages such as the following:

   kinton_accounting.ACCOUNT_PERIOD_USAGE_VW Error : Column count of mysql.proc is wrong. Expected 21, found 20. Created with MariaDB 100129, now running 100410. Please use mysql_upgrade to fix this error

   These messages are expected and this same mysql_upgrade process will automatically fix these errors in its next stages.

   Check that the mysql_upgrade process completes correctly.

7. Check that your hostname is in your DNS or in your /etc/hosts file

8. Upgrade the Abiquo API databases

   abiquo-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update

   If the liquibase update fails with a message similar to the following: 

   Liquibase update Failed: Validation Failed:
   1 change sets check sum
   src/X.X.X-XX/kinton-X.X.X.xml::ABICLOUDPREMIUM-XXXX-XxxxxxxxXXxXxxxxxxXxxxxx::XXXXXXXXX is now: 7:ee2fa6e058ec76c7abf801567898917d
   For more information, use the --logLevel flag

   Do the following steps

   1. Clear the database checksums

      abiquo-db clearCheckSums

   2. Retry the above abiquo-db update command.

9. Change file owners to tomcat user

   chown -R tomcat /opt/abiquo

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

Upgrade remote services servers

These steps are for remote services servers in a distributed or HA environment.

Upgrade EVERY remote services server with these steps.

1. On the remote services servers, upgrade Abiquo to 5.2.x

   yum update

   Before you confirm, check the following packages will be installed from the abiquo-base repository:

   1. jdk: 11.0.6u10

   2. redis: 5.0.7.1

2. After the update, check versions of Java and Tomcat

   Check that the symbolic link to the latest version of Java points to Java 11

   # cd /usr/java
   # ll
   latest -> /usr/java/jdk-11.0.6+10

   Check that the correct Tomcat version will be used

   # cd /opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin
   # sh version.sh
   Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/abiquo/tomcat
   Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/abiquo/tomcat
   Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/abiquo/tomcat/temp
   Using JRE_HOME:        /usr
   Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/abiquo/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
   NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS:  --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
   Server version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.33
   Server built:   Mar 11 2020 09:31:38 UTC
   Server number:  9.0.33.0
   OS Name:        Linux
   OS Version:     3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64
   Architecture:   amd64
   JVM Version:    11.0.6+10
   JVM Vendor:     AdoptOpenJDK

   On the remote services server in the JDK folder, check certificate migration to allow AM download

   The API server certificate should be listed for Java 11 with its FQDN. You may need to enter the storepass option to supply the password and you can use the alias option to search for the hostname or FQDN of your server

   # cd /usr/java/jdk-11.0.6+10/lib/security
   # keytool -list -keystore cacerts -alias (hostname or fqdn)

   For example

   sudo keytool -list -keystore cacerts -alias abiquo.example.com

3. On all remote services servers using SSL

   Edit the Tomcat server configuration file:

   /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf/server.xml

   Find the location of the certificate files for Java 8

   keystoreFile="/usr/java/default/jre/lib/security/cacerts"

   Change it to the location for Java 11 (e.g. remove "/jre")

   keystoreFile="/usr/java/default/lib/security/cacerts" 

4. On all remote services servers, change file owners to tomcat user

   chown -R tomcat /opt/abiquo

5. On the remote services with appliance manager and the V2V server (i.e. servers that mount the NFS repository), change file owners to Tomcat user

   chown -R tomcat /opt/vm_repository
   chmod -R a+r /opt/vm_repository

   
   

Upgrade monitoring server

This step is for Watchtower monitoring servers in all installations.

1. To continue using Java 8 (for Cassandra), remove the JDK through the package manager. If you use yum, it will be delete all the dependencies and you will have to reinstall them

   rpm -e --nodeps jdk

2. Check the jdk to install is version 8

   rpm -qa | grep jdk

3. Check that Java is correctly installed:

   1. If you execute this command and get that error, please execute the command from the next bullet:

      $ java
      -bash: java: command not found

   2. Fix it by executing this command, then selecting the option "java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64/jre/bin/java)":

      $ sudo alternatives --config java
      
      There are 3 programs which provide 'java'.
      
        Selection    Command
      -----------------------------------------------
         1           /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_144/bin/java
       + 2           /usr/java/jdk-11.0.6+10/bin/java
      *  3           java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64/jre/bin/java)
      
      Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 3
      
      
      

4. As for the Abiquo DB steps, remove Galera, which will also remove MariaDB

   yum remove galera

5. Clean yum and make cache

   yum clean all && yum makecache

6. Install MariaDB

   yum install MariaDB-server

7. Update Abiquo

   yum update

8. Check that the Java package is now "javajdk" to use Java 1.8.0u144 with Cassandra:

   # rpm -qa 'javajdk*'
   javajdk-1.8.0u144-6691.el7.x86_64

9. If you have a HA datanode that runs the watchtower database, skip directly to Step 10 to update watchtower database

10. Enable and start the services that were reinstalled

    systemctl enable mariadb
    systemctl start mariadb

11. Upgrade MySQL

    mysql_upgrade

    The mysql_upgrade step may detect errors that trigger messages such as the following message (note: this example is from the Abiquo database server).

    kinton_accounting.ACCOUNT_PERIOD_USAGE_VW Error : Column count of mysql.proc is wrong. Expected 21, found 20. Created with MariaDB 100129, now running 100410. Please use mysql_upgrade to fix this error

    These messages are expected and this same mysql_upgrade process will automatically fix these errors in its next stages.

    Check that the mysql_upgrade process completes correctly.

12. Update the Abiquo Watchtower database

    watchtower-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update

Upgrade steps from 4.7.x to 5.0.x

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

# cd /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis/
# bash ./4.2.3/00-old-vsm-definitions.sh

Upgrade steps from 5.0.x to 5.1.x

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

/usr/share/doc/abiquo-model/scripts/veeam-job-modifier/README.md

/usr/share/doc/abiquo-model/scripts/wt-db-redis-db-migration-tool/README.md

# cd /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis/
# bash ./4.2.3/00-old-vsm-definitions.sh

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.

Upgrade steps for 5.2 versions

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

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:

   {
       "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.

Start Abiquo servers and services

Start Abiquo servers and services