Upgrade the Cluster

Upgrading a VM Squared cluster is straight-forward. The upgrade is managed by the dashboard and applied cluster-wide.

Uploading the upgrade bundle#

Upload the upgrade bundle into the file store for the VM Squared cluster. First, navigate to the file list, Click Storage > Files :

Next, click on the to create a new file.

• Input the Name.
• Select the Type to be Context (which is the default).
• Input the URL to the upgrade bundle or select a file to upload directly.

Click next and select the datastore to upload the upgrade bundle file into.

Click Finish and the new upgrade bundle file will appear in the storage file list.

Applying the upgrade#

To apply the upgrade the user must log into the Dashboard Console.

From the dashboard console type upgrade and follow the prompts.

VMsquared:vmsquared\dashboard> upgrade

  ****************************
  *   Upgrade VM Squared     *
  *  This is not reversible  *
  ****************************

Continue? (type yes to continue): yes

Available Images:
 1:  upgrade.bundle

Enter the number of an image to use  (Ctrl-C to cancel):

Rebooting the cluster#

After applying the upgrade the final step is to reboot the whole cluster.

To reboot the cluster the user must log into the Dashboard Console.

From the dashboard console type cluster-reboot.

Hosts will be restart one by one during the upgrade. Your VMs will be migrated as hosts are rebooted and the cluster will continue to operate normally.

After the upgrade has completed, logout and reconnect any Glasshouse browser sessions.

VMsquared:vmsquared\dashboard> cluster-reboot
Proceeding will reboot the cluster. Virtual
machines will be live migrated and a rolling
reboot will occur.

Do you wish to continue? (Y/N):