[one-users] Upgrade 3.2 -> 3.4 with active VMs (SOLVED)

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for sharing your code and for your great feedback.
I have created a wiki page [1] to give this thread more visibility.

A quick note for anyone interested in this migration: Michael's code can be
merged into 3.3.0_to_3.3.80.rb or 3.3.80_to_3.4.0.rb to skip the db_versioning
table edition.

Cheers

[1] http://wiki.opennebula.org/upgrade34
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Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org |
@OpenNebula<http://twitter.com/opennebula><cmartin at opennebula.org>



On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Michael Kutzner <michael.kutzner at virtion.de
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the following is a longer email, but I believe there are others also
> having the need to make a "smooth" upgrade from 3.2.x to 3.4
>
> Thanx again to Carlos to show me the right way, so how did we do the
> Migration of 3.2.1 to 3.4 having certain active VMs and not the chance to
> shut them down.
> Some background for the steps described below:
> Our old setup was:
> - ssh as transfer manager (a little bit modified)
> - VM_DIR was /one/vm in 3.2
> - lots of persistent images, no images marked with SAVE_AS
> - path to image repository: /one/var/images
>
> New setup:
> - ssh transfer manager
> - filesystem datastore 1 (/one/var/datastores/1)
> - system datastore 0     (/one/var/datastores/0)
>
> The migration steps:
> 1) Normal upgrade procedure (installation of one 3.4 without onedb upgrade
> yet)
> 2) as describe by Carlos I commented out lines 36 to 60 in
>     /usr/lib/one/ruby/onedb/3.3.0_to_3.3.80.rb
>     (line 35 does not have to be commented out - "header_done=false")
>    onedb upgrade run, working fine
> 3) On each node create a link for each active vm from
>   /one/var/datastores/1/<VM_ID> -> /one/vm/<VM_ID>/images
> --------- <script>---------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> DATASTORE_LOCATION=/one/var/datastores
> SYSTEM_STORE=$DATASTORE_LOCATION/0
> IMAGE_STORE=$DATASTORE_LOCATION/1
> VM_DIR=/one/vm
>
> # Create Datastore Directory
> test -d $DATASTORE_LOCATION || mkdir $DATASTORE_LOCATION
> # Create System Datastore
> test -d $SYSTEM_STORE || (echo "creating vm dir $SYSTEM_STORE"; mkdir
> $SYSTEM_STORE)
> #
> # In our setup the datastore 1 is available on each host, but was mounted
> to /one/images
> #
> test -L $IMAGE_STORE || (echo "linking $IMAGE_STORE"; ln -s /one/images
> $IMAGE_STORE )
>
>
> for i in $VM_DIR/*; do
>   ID=`basename $i`
>   if [ -d $i/images -a ! -L $SYSTEM_STORE/$ID -a ! -d $SYSTEM_STORE/$ID ];
> then
>     echo "linking running vm $ID to new system datastore"
>     ln -s $i/images $SYSTEM_STORE/$ID
>   fi
> done
> ------------------------------
>
> After this step ONE was able to monitor again the running VMs, but as I
> noticed at the first test, it was not to shutdown the vm and migrate the
> images back to the image datastore 1.
> What was the problem?
> Well the information of the TM_MAD and the datastores was missing in
> the persistent images - this information is stored in the the XML body in
> the one database, table vm_pool.
>   <DATASTORE>default</DATASTORE>
>   <DATASTORE_ID>1</DATASTORE>
>   <TM_MAD>ssh</TM_MAD>
> This information is needed to use the correct transfer manager for the
> persistent image migration.
> (This creates an error like:
>  Error executing image transfer script: Transfer Driver
> 'hostname:/one/var/datastores/0/1322/disk.0' not available)
>
> So we had to add the needed information to each persistent disk on
> each active vm.
>
> Diving into ruby for the first time in my life I decided to do
> this creating a kind of db update script in for "onedb" way as this brings
> out of the box every thing needed (mainly just some data changes in the
> database) and was the fastest way for me.
> What had to be done?
> I created an update script as attached to this email, which does the
> following:
> - Adds the above mentioned informations to each image, if it is persistent
>   and not a vm started in the new way (starting at line 46).
> - Changes the SOURCE of the images to the correct new location.
>
> This worked fine for us using again the normal "onedb upgrade", but to
> start oned again - now db_version is set to 3.4.0.5 I had to delete the
> last entry from the table db_versioning for this version.
> (just do a select * from db_versioning, note the oid and delete the row
> with the oid having the
>  entry for version 3.4.0.5)
>
> After having done this ONE was running fine and shutting down some
> "older" test vms worked also fine - migrating back the persistent images
> to the datastore 1.
>
> Beware that when shutting down the "old" vms, only the links on the
> nodes are deleted, not the images themselves. This may be done manually
> or by a small extension to the delete script of the ssh transfer driver.
>
> Perhaps this mail gives some info to people having the same need for the
> upgrade.
>
>
> Best, Michael
>
> PS: I like the new version, great work
>
> [siehe angehängte Datei: 3.4.0_to_3.4.0.5.rb]
>
>
> Am 12.04.2012 um 16:26 schrieb Carlos Martín Sánchez:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> The reason why VMs have to be shut down is because the storage model has
> changed quite a bit in this last version, and we couldn't come up with a
> migration process that felt solid enough for any deployment.
>
> But, since you said you are ready for lots of manual work, let's try this:
>
> First, edit /usr/lib/one/ruby/onedb/3.3.0_to_3.3.80.rb and comment out
> lines 35 to 60 [1] to disable the VM status check.
> Then upgrade the opennebula DB with the onedb command [2]
>
> Before you start opennebula again, you need to adapt the previous VM
> storage directories to the new 3.4 hierarchy. Assuming you don't have
> VM_DIR nor DATASTORE_LOCATION defined in oned.conf, this is how the VM
> directories look in both versions:
>
> 3.2:
> /var/lib/one/<vm_id>/images/disk.i
> /var/lib/images/abcde
>
> 3.4:
> /var/lib/one/datastores/0/<vm_id>/disk.i
> /var/lib/one/datastores/1/abcde
>
> So what you need to do in the front-end *and each host* is to individually
> link each existing VM dir:
>
> ln -s /var/lib/one/<vm_id>/images /var/lib/one/datastores/0/<vm_id>
>
> Let me stress that this must be done in all the hosts.
>
> Please take into account that this is just the basic idea, and that *we
> haven't tested this*. You may run into problems depending on your
> infrastructure configuration. For instance, if you were using the tm_shared
> drivers, VMs containing persistent Images will have links like this one:
>
> /var/lib/one/7/images/disk.1 -> /var/lib/images/qwerty
>
> If you move the image files to their new destination in
> /var/lib/one/datastores/1, like the documentation says, you will break
> those VM disk links.
>
>
> Another problem that may be important to you is that VMs over which you
> executed saveas [3] won't be able to save the changes back to the locked
> Image once the VM is shut down. In the best scenario, you will find the
> files inside /var/lib/one/<vm_id>/images/, but I'm not sure about this, you
> may lose your changes...
> You can locate these VMs looking for VM/DISK/SAVE_AS, and the Images all
> have "-" as the value of IMAGE/SOURCE.
>
>
> As I said, this is not a tested or recommended procedure.
>
>
> Good luck,
> Carlos
>
> [1]
> http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/repository/revisions/one-3.4/entry/src/onedb/3.3.0_to_3.3.80.rb
> [2] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.4:upgrade
> [3]
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:archives:rel3.2:img_guide#save_changes
>
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula<http://twitter.com/opennebula><cmartin at opennebula.org>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Michael Kutzner <
> michael.kutzner at virtion.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> first of all congratulations to the final 3.4 and many thanx for the hard
>> work!
>>
>> I just wanted to upgrade to 3.4 and started reading.
>> I noticed reading the upgrade guide that all active VMs have to be shut
>> down.
>>
>> Is there any chance to upgrade without powering down all VMs? Even with
>> lots of
>> manual work?
>>
>>
>> Many thanx,
>>  Michael
>>
>>
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