topic Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process in HPE SimpliVity

New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

kct44 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:41:24 GMT

The new HPE Simplivity V5 release, which involves more changes than previous upgrades.

The change to SVT 5.0 implies a change of Ubuntu version from 18.04 to 22.04 and also a renaming of Simplivity's network interfaces => All scripts that may call upon these ethxx interface names must be adapted. (Supervision, deployment ..).

Apart from the Interropability doc, the simplivity upgrade planner...do you have a detailed upgrade process? Or does the upgrade manager update the omnistack to 22.04 and change the interfaces to svtethx automatically? Is there a script to run at the end of the upgrade?

Thanks for your feedback,

Julian,

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

alg204 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:20:05 GMT

Used Upgrade Manager to upgrade to 5.0 and it took care of everything. Didn't have to do anything afterwards. Just in case, I ran all upgrades on one node and waited a bit. No issues, so then I ran the rest.

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

kct44 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:20:02 GMT

Thank you for your feedback. I thought it was necessary to run another script after the update.
So I'll be able to start a 1st update on a small 2-node cluster.

See you soon,

Julian,

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

s- — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:22:11 GMT

Hi @kct44

Please note Upgrading the Omnistack Virtual Controller (OVC) to version 5.0.0 could potentially fail at 97 percent. When the failure occurs, the OVC will roll back the upgrade to the previous version and the services (svtfs) restart will fail.

SimpliVity nodes that were deployed on version 3.7.9 or earlier and then upgraded to later versions are exposed to this issue due to an incorrect PostgreSQL configuration parameter.

Here is the customer advisory for Simplivity upgrade 5.0 :

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-a00138760en_us

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Jaipal

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

kct44 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:56:08 GMT

@s- Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. I hope it's the only advisory for this upgrade process :-).

And how much do you estimate for this upgrade per FW, VMW and SVT patch node?

Have a nice day,

Julian,

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

s- — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:21:30 GMT

Hi @kct44

It should take approx. 1 hour to 1.30 hour per node, considering you are upgrading OVC, ESXI and firmware etc.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Jaipal

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

Convergo — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:21:16 GMT

@s- I noticed infosight is also referring to this article, even when we use a 4.2 cluster. I guess we need to apply this advisory proactively or is it a false positive Infosight warning ?

Re: New release Simplivity V5 upgrade process

kct44 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:15:15 GMT

Hello,

I can confirm that the recommendation must be followed. In addition, if you have an external storeonce bay connected to the federation, you should also follow the note below:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-a00139083en_us&hprpt_id=ALERT_HPE_3066216&jumpid=em_pom8nu6hj_aid-521053889

Julien,