Upgrading Tungsten Fabric using In-Place Upgrade Procedure

date

2021-01-19

Note

This procedure can be used for Tungsten Fabric upgrades to Tungsten Fabric Release 2003 or earlier only.

If you are upgrading to Tungsten Fabric Release 2005 or later using an in-place upgrade procedure, see How to Perform a Zero Impact Tungsten Fabric Upgrade using the Ansible Deployer.

This document provides steps to upgrade Tungsten Fabric using in-place upgrade procedure.

The procedure supports incremental model and you can use it to upgrade from Tungsten Fabric Release N-1 to N.

Tip

You must take snapshots of your current system before proceeding with the upgrade process.

For a list of supported platforms for all Tungsten Fabric releases, see Tungsten Fabric Supported Platforms List  .

  1. Update kernel version on all the compute nodes.

    yum -y update kernel*

    Note

    You must not update kernel version if you are upgrading from Contrail Networking Release 1910 to Release 1911.

  2. Update CONTRAIL_VERSION and CONTRAIL_CONTAINER_TAG to the desired version tag in this instances.yml file.

    Access CONTRAIL_CONTAINER_TAG located at README Access to Tungsten Fabric Registry 20xx  .

  3. Run the following commands from contrail-ansible-deployer directory.

    For TF with OpenStack deployment:

    cd contrail-ansible-deployer
    ansible-playbook -i inventory/ -e orchestrator=openstack playbooks/configure_instances.yml
    ansible-playbook -e orchestrator=openstack -i inventory/ playbooks/install_contrail.yml

  4. Reboot the compute node.

  5. Check the status of Contrail service on the compute node.

    All services must be active .

    sudo contrail-status

The ansible playbook logs are available on the terminal during execution. You can also access it at /var/log/ansible.log.