Controller upgrade has been completed. I also verified that live migration finally works on aarch64! Please let me know if you have any issues stemming from this upgrade.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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