Upgrade Abiquo 5.4 to 6.1.x distributed by servers

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Last updated: Aug 29, 2023
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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.



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.



  • 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



1. 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



2. API servers

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

# Log in as root sudo su - # Check that the Abiquo RabbitMQ queues are empty (API or Datanode). # The number of messages in all queues must be 0. rabbitmqctl list_queues messages name # Back up the UI tar cvfz /var/www/html/ui.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /var/www/html/ui # Back up the /opt/abiquo folder tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo # Back up Redis redis-cli save cp -a /var/lib/redis /var/lib/redis-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) # On DB Server, back up the Abiquo MySQL DBs mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton > kinton.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton_accounting > kinton_accounting.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) # IF you are using SAML with multiple IdPs, back up security beans files cp /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) # Stop services systemctl stop httpd systemctl stop abiquo-tomcat # Install latest yum release package for your target version using link yum remove 'abiquo-release-*' # Find the correct link at https://https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311363475/Abiquo-release-ee+packages+list # For 6.1 yum localinstall https://user:passwd@mirror.abiquo.com/el7/6.1/os/x86_64/abiquo-release-ee-6.1.0-20230112_211400.el7.noarch.rpm # Prepare yum repository for your target version yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-base yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-updates # Perform update yum clean all && yum makecache yum update 'abiquo-*' # Upgrade the Abiquo databases abiquo-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update # IF the database upgrade fails because of checksums abiquo-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] clearCheckSums abiquo-db [-h DB hostname] [-P DB port] [-u user] [-p password] update # In Abiquo 6.1.0, optionally, deactivate on-premise billing # Log in to the database server as an administrator and run this command in MySQL update kinton.system_properties set value = 0 where name = "client.billing.onpremise.enabled"; # Post-upgrade step for API chown -R tomcat /opt/abiquo Run Redis database script These scripts can always be found on the Abiquo Server. On each Remote Services server (including Monolithic sever) or Datanode server run the Redis scripts # cd /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis/ # bash ./4.2.3/00-old-vsm-definitions.sh

 

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:

    {     "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



3. Remote services servers

On each remote services server do these steps.

# Log in as root sudo su - # On V2V servers, check for active conversions # ps aux | grep v2v # ps aux | grep mechadora # Back up the /opt/abiquo folder tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo # Back up Redis redis-cli save cp -a /var/lib/redis /var/lib/redis-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) # Stop services systemctl stop abiquo-tomcat # Check if there is an NFS shared folder for the NARS results (related to system property abiquo.nars.async.fileresults.path): mount | grep -i "nfs\|results" | grep -v sunrpc 10.60.37.87:/abq-pro-nfs on /opt/abiquo/results-nars type nfs4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,sync,vers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.60.37.77,local_lock=none,addr=10.60.37.87,user) #Unmount the previous shared folder if you have it mounted umount /opt/abiquo/results-nars # Install latest yum release package for your target version using link yum remove 'abiquo-release-*' # Find the correct link at https://https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311363475/Abiquo-release-ee+packages+list # For 6.1 yum localinstall https://user:passwd@mirror.abiquo.com/el7/6.1/os/x86_64/abiquo-release-ee-6.1.0-20230112_211400.el7.noarch.rpmç # Prepare yum repository for your target version yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-base yum-config-manager --enable abiquo-updates # Perform update yum clean all && yum makecache yum update 'abiquo-*' # Remount the shared folder for NARS (and any other folders you have unmounted) mount -a # Post upgrade steps for RS chown -R tomcat /opt/abiquo chown -R tomcat /opt/vm_repository chmod -R a+r /opt/vm_repository # Refresh VM definitions cd /usr/share/doc/abiquo-redis/redis/ bash ./4.2.3/00-old-vsm-definitions.sh

 

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





4. Monitoring servers

On each Watchtower monitoring server do these steps.





5. Start Abiquo server and services

Start all servers in the correct order.

 

6. In Abiquo UI

  1. Re-enable the physical machines

  2. In Abiquo 6.1, go to Configuration view and deactivate on-premise billing until you are ready to switch and have billed the previous month 

7. Reporting server

We recommend that you update your reports server to JasperReports v7.8.0.

8. Guacamole server

For Abiquo 6.1.2, we recommend that you Upgrade Guacamole server.

 

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