Firmware Update Operations Requiring Manual Migration

On systems with the stx-openstack application there may be some instances that cannot be migrated automatically by orchestration. In these cases the instance migration must be managed manually.

Do the following to manage the instance re-location manually:

• Manually firmware update at least one openstack-compute worker host. This assumes that at least one openstack-compute worker host does not have any instances, or has instances that can be migrated. For more information on manually updating a host, see the Display Worker Host Information.

• If the migration is prevented by limitations in the VNF or virtual application, perform the following:

  • Create new instances on an already updated openstack-compute worker host.

  • Manually migrate the data from the old instances to the new instances.

    Note

    This is specific to your environment and depends on the virtual application running in the instance.

  • Terminate the old instances.

• If the migration is prevented by the size of the instances local disks:

  • For each openstack-compute worker host that has instances that cannot be migrated, manually move the instances using the CLI. For more information, see Firmware Update Orchestration Using the CLI.

Once all openstack-compute worker hosts containing instances that cannot be migrated have been firmware updated, firmware update orchestration can then be used to update the remaining worker hosts.