How to update Virtuozzo Infrastructure to the RTM version

Important! We do not support and do not recommend upgrading production environments to the Ready-To-Market (RTM) version. It is recommended to use the RTM version only for testing or development purposes. Production environments must be updated to the General Availability (GA) version only.

This guide describes how to update your Virtuozzo Infrastructure cluster to the RTM version. According to our release schedule, we release the RTM version two weeks before the GA release. We use the RTM version to update our own test or development environments and staging clusters to test stability and compatibility of the upcoming version. You can use it for the same purposes as well.

1. Contact Virtuozzo to obtain the link to the RTM version. Usually, the link format is http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/releases/hci-<version>-<build>/, for example, http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/releases/hci-6.0.0-235/.

2. Log in to your Virtuozzo Infrastructure node and change the /etc/yum.repos.d/hci.repo file as follows:

2.1. Comment the line with the mirrorlist link.

2.2. Change the line with the baseurl link.

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[hci-base]
name=Hybrid Infrastructure Base Repo
#mirrorlist=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/mirrorlists/5.4/releases-os.mirrorlist
baseurl=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/releases/hci-6.0.0-235/x86_64/os/
priority=51
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-HCI-3-Virtuozzo
       file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VZLINUX_GPG_KEY
[hci-updates]
name=Hybrid Infrastructure Updates Repo
#mirrorlist=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/mirrorlists/5.4/releases-updates.mirrorlist
baseurl=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/releases/hci-6.0.0-235/x86_64/os/
priority=51
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-HCI-3-Virtuozzo
       file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VZLINUX_GPG_KEY

3. Repeat step 2 on all of your nodes.

4. Check for updates in the admin panel or by using the vinfra command-line tool. As soon as the system shows that there is a new version available, the new repository will be automatically added to your nodes. You need to change the /etc/yum.repos.d/hci-base6.repo file on each node and add a link to the proper repository:

4.1. Comment the line with the mirrorlist link.

4.2. Comment the existing line with the baseurl link.

4.3. Add a line with a new baseurl link.

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[hci-base6]
name=Hybrid Infrastructure 6 Base Repo
#mirrorlist=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/mirrorlists/6.0/releases-os.mirrorlist
#baseurl=http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vzlinux/9/$basearch/os/
baseurl=https://repo.virtuozzo.com/vz-platform/releases/hci-6.0.0-235/x86_64/os/ 
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
priority=90
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VZLINUX_GPG_KEY file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Virtuozzo-9

5. Continue the update process as usual. Once the system updates all cluster nodes, it will try to update the last component Management panel, which will fail. This is fine, proceed to the next step.

6. On each Virtuozzo Infrastructure node, change the /etc/yum.repos.d/hci.repo file according to the example in step 2. You have to change this file twice because the system overwrites it during the update process.

7. Continue the update by clicking Force update.

8. Revert all of the changes in /etc/yum.repos.d/hci.repo.

Enjoy!