I have completed the upgrades on all hypervisor nodes. I am now starting
the upgrade on the controller node and expect this to take approximately
one hour to finish. Actual downtime should be around 30 minutes if all goes
well.

Thanks-

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> Starting today, we will be going through all of our hypervisor nodes and
> upgrading them to AlmaLinux 9 from AlmaLinux 8. After the hypervisors are
> upgraded, we will be also upgrading the controller node which will require
> around 30-45 minutes of downtime for services related to that. I will send
> an email out when I plan to do the controller upgrade.
>
> Due to the lack of support for live migration with the current version of
> libvirt on the nodes, we will need to do a "cold" migration of each VM.
> This means we will gracefully shutdown the VM and move it to another node.
> I am hoping the newer libvirt will finally provide support for live
> migration.
>
> I will send out periodic updates if needed. I expect this to last a couple
> of weeks between all the various nodes we need to do this on.
>
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> --
> Lance Albertson
> Director
> Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
>


-- 
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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