Oracle Virtual Machine Manager Upgrade Steps

This article outlines the steps required to upgrade Oracle Virtual Machine Manager (OVMM) to version 3.x.x

Step by step approach:

1.       To start with, download latest upgrade files from OracleSoftware Delivery Cloud.

2.       Go to  repository server  and prepare repository for Oracle VM Server upgrade

3.       Copy the OVMM ISO to the OVMM server;

scp ovmm-3.4.6-installer-OracleLinux-b2265.iso xxxovmm01:~/

4.       Stop OVMM services

OEL7 systemd ( for Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 (OEL7)

systemctl stop ovmcli

systemctl stop ovmm

systemctl stop ovmm_mysql

5.       Shutdown OVMM server Virtual Machine (VM) and take a snapshot/ clone based on the underlying hypervisor (VMware or OVM)

6.       Power on VM after snapshot/ clone

7.       Start the OVMM related services

OEL7 systemd (for OEL 7)  - In Oracle Linux 7, systemd is the new system and service manager. It replaces the Upstart init daemon while providing backward compatibility for legacy OEL 6 service scripts.

systemctl start ovmm_mysql

systemctl start ovmm

systemctl start ovmcli

8.       Mount the ISO file which is copied in step above to the OVMM server

mkdir -p /mnt/ovmm

mount /path/to/.iso /mnt/ovmm -o loop

9.       Then run the installer

OVMM Installer

cd /mnt/ovmm

./runInstaller.sh

1 Select 2 from the menu and follow the prompts;

1 After the upgrade completed, perform the following tests to ensure that everything working as expected.

o   Check the connectivity via console

o   Ensure that all hosts are present in the console;

o   Ensure that live migration is working between OVMS hosts

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