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 .
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.
Update
CONTRAIL_VERSION
andCONTRAIL_CONTAINER_TAG
to the desired version tag in thisinstances.yml
file.Access
CONTRAIL_CONTAINER_TAG
located at README Access to Tungsten Fabric Registry 20xx .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
Reboot the compute node.
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
.