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OnApp 6.3 Patch 1 CloudBoot Update 2 (6.3.1-1)

04 June 2021

This document provides information on improvements and fixes, as well as the upgrade instructions for CloudBoot.

Improvements

Key

Release Notes

CLOUDBOOT-717

Updated the following components for CentOS7 Xen RAMDisk:

  • CentOS Linux version to 7.9.2009
  • kernel version to 4.9.241-37.el7.x86_64
  • UFS file-system driver based on the kernel 4.9.241-37.el7.x86_64 sources and complied with the super-ufs_fs_write.patch
  • Xen version to 4.10.4.134.g6ea37c69c7-2.el7 to address the XSA-345/CVE-2020-27672, XSA-346/CVE-2020-27671, XSA-347/CVE-2020-27670, XSA-286/CVE-2020-27674, XSA-351/CVE-2020-28368, XSA-355/CVE-2020-29040, XSA-115/CVE-2020-29480, XSA-322/CVE-2020-29481, XSA-323/CVE-2020-29482, XSA-324/CVE-2020-29484, XSA-325/CVE-2020-29483, XSA-330/CVE-2020-29485, XSA-348/CVE-2020-29566, XSA-352/CVE-2020-29486, XSA-353/CVE-2020-29479, XSA-358/CVE-2020-29570 issues
  • GCC version to 4.8.5-44.el7.x86_64
  • temporary disabled netxtreme2 building as it isn't compatible with 4.9.241-37.el7.x86_64 kernel version
CLOUDBOOT-722

Updated the following components for CentOS6 KVM RAMDisk based on CentOS 6.10 Vault repositories:

  • qemu-kvm version to 0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.8 compiled with --enable-io-throttling to address RedHat (https://bugzilla.redhat.com) bugs: bz#1869684 (CVE-2020-14364) issue
CLOUDBOOT-723

Updated CentOS6 Xen RAMDisk to CentOS 6.10 Vault repositories.

CLOUDBOOT-751

Included onappstore-6.3-8234-6.3_patch1.x86_64.rpm into all CentOS6 RAMDisks .

STORAGE-2380

Now before the upgrade of Integrated Storage, it checks if there is enough memory on a storage controller.

Fixes

Key

Release Notes

Affected Versions

STORAGE-2319 (SUPPORT-3392)

The upgrade to OnApp 6.3 version could break the Storage API init script on CentOS 6 compute resources.

6.3

Upgrade CloudBoot Packages

  • Create a backup of the /tftpboot directory in case the storage packages rollback is needed.
  • Power off Windows virtual servers before proceeding to the following procedures.

To upgrade the OnApp Storage packages, follow the next procedure.

  1. Upgrade the repo (run on Control Panel box):

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    # yum -y update http://rpm.repo.onapp.com/repo/onapp-repo-6.3.noarch.rpm

  2. Update CloudBoot default packages (run on Control Panel box):

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    # yum update onapp-ramdisk-tools

  3. Update some of the following packages, according to the operating system and virtualization, that are already installed (run on Control Panel box):

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    # yum update onapp-ramdisk-centos6-xen
# yum update onapp-ramdisk-centos6-kvm
# yum update onapp-ramdisk-centos7-xen
# yum update onapp-ramdisk-centos7-kvm

    After the packages installation, go to the Control Panel’s Settings menu > Configuration and click the Save Configuration button.

  4. Run the script:

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    # /onapp/onapp-store-install/onapp-store-install.sh

    When run in the interactive mode, enter the required information. Be aware that the disk-less nodes password is the root password for the CloudBoot compute resources. By default it is blank.

To upgrade CloudBoot backup servers, refer to the Upgrade Guide. Please mind that only the “Simple Reboot” option is available.