Dear all,
First of all I'd like to wish all developers/maintainers and users a happy new year and all the best.
I know I am quite late with this topic, but other things distracted me so-far: I'd like to finally upgrade our cluster to 11.0.
According to the upgrade instructions (https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Release_N...) it is more or less an apt distupgrade; but since there are a lot of changes and I have very bad experience trying to upgrade merely ubuntu-versions (which usually breaks), I can't believe it is so simple?
So I'd like to ask whether it is really as simple and what your experiences are? Any caveats, things to keep in mind? Can I do it while calculations are running or should I rather wait for all of them to finish (we have run-times of months, therefore this is a thing in my case).
Any advice/comment is very welcome.
Best regards, Tobias
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 5:09 AM Tobias Moehle tobias.moehle@uni-rostock.de wrote:
Dear all,
First of all I'd like to wish all developers/maintainers and users a happy new year and all the best.
I know I am quite late with this topic, but other things distracted me so-far: I'd like to finally upgrade our cluster to 11.0.
According to the upgrade instructions ( https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Release_N...)
it is more or less an apt distupgrade; but since there are a lot of changes and I have very bad experience trying to upgrade merely ubuntu-versions (which usually breaks), I can't believe it is so simple?
So I'd like to ask whether it is really as simple and what your experiences are? Any caveats, things to keep in mind? Can I do it while calculations are running or should I rather wait for all of them to finish (we have run-times of months, therefore this is a thing in my case).
Any advice/comment is very welcome.
Best regards, Tobias
I'm interested in this too! This upgrade is on my to-do list and I'm a bit hesitant.
Thanks, Bryan
"T" == Tobias Moehle tobias.moehle@uni-rostock.de writes:
Hi Tobias,
T> Dear all, First of all I'd like to wish all T> developers/maintainers and users a happy new year and all the T> best.
thanks, our best wishes for the new year to you as well.
T> I know I am quite late with this topic, but other things T> distracted me so-far: I'd like to finally upgrade our cluster to T> 11.0.
T> According to the upgrade instructions T> (https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Release_N...) T> it is more or less an apt distupgrade; but since there are a lot T> of changes and I have very bad experience trying to upgrade T> merely ubuntu-versions (which usually breaks), I can't believe it T> is so simple?
It should be, as long as you follow the guide precisely. I didn't have problems while upgrading many customer clusters (otherwise they would have been solved by now anyway ;) ). Obviously we only install the minimum needed set of packages for a given cluster, so if you have pulled in many non-Qlustar related packages from base Ubuntu, you might run into problems on that side. But these should be rather minor and only concern the corresponding package(s).
T> So I'd like to ask whether it is really as simple and what your T> experiences are? Any caveats, things to keep in mind? Can I do it T> while calculations are running or should I rather wait for all of T> them to finish (we have run-times of months, therefore this is a T> thing in my case).
Better to wait for calculations to finish. All nodes will need a reboot anyway.
T> Any advice/comment is very welcome.
Best,
Roland
Hi Roland,
thank you for the answer and encouraging words; than I'll announce a maintenance for this and try it. I hope, we don't have incompatible packages/setups.
@Bryan: Sounds good to hear that I am not the only one who still didn't upgrade; I'll keep you informed on my experiences. But as I mentioned, due to our long run times of cluster-jobs it will take some time.
Best regards,
Tobias
On 07.01.20 16:16, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
"T" == Tobias Moehle tobias.moehle@uni-rostock.de writes:
Hi Tobias,
T> Dear all, First of all I'd like to wish all T> developers/maintainers and users a happy new year and all the T> best.thanks, our best wishes for the new year to you as well.
T> I know I am quite late with this topic, but other things T> distracted me so-far: I'd like to finally upgrade our cluster to T> 11.0. T> According to the upgrade instructions T> (https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Release_Notes/index.html#idm139680848325088) T> it is more or less an apt distupgrade; but since there are a lot T> of changes and I have very bad experience trying to upgrade T> merely ubuntu-versions (which usually breaks), I can't believe it T> is so simple?It should be, as long as you follow the guide precisely. I didn't have problems while upgrading many customer clusters (otherwise they would have been solved by now anyway ;) ). Obviously we only install the minimum needed set of packages for a given cluster, so if you have pulled in many non-Qlustar related packages from base Ubuntu, you might run into problems on that side. But these should be rather minor and only concern the corresponding package(s). T> So I'd like to ask whether it is really as simple and what your T> experiences are? Any caveats, things to keep in mind? Can I do it T> while calculations are running or should I rather wait for all of T> them to finish (we have run-times of months, therefore this is a T> thing in my case).
Better to wait for calculations to finish. All nodes will need a reboot anyway.
Ok, than I
T> Any advice/comment is very welcome.Best,
Roland _______________________________________________ Qlustar-General mailing list -- qlustar-general@qlustar.org To unsubscribe send an email to qlustar-general-leave@qlustar.org
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