Re: Upgrading OS on hypervisors

2018-12-14 Thread Andrija Panic
No magic as Ivan said, you may want to check dynamic auto-convergence in case of busy VMs (high RAM change ram i.e. busy MSSQL servers and such) - qemu 2.5 needed for this, can be consumed from 4.11 and onwards - but might not be relevant in your case. Some very short interruption IS done - i.e.

Re: Upgrading OS on hypervisors

2018-12-13 Thread Rakesh v
Hello Ivan We upgrade only when critical security patch is released like meltdown and L1TF else we don't do upgrades for every single kernel release Sent from my iPhone > On 13-Dec-2018, at 11:05 PM, Ivan Kudryavtsev > wrote: > > Rakesh, > No magic exists. Migrate forth, reboot, and migrate

Re: Upgrading OS on hypervisors

2018-12-13 Thread Ivan Kudryavtsev
Rakesh, No magic exists. Migrate forth, reboot, and migrate back. What I'm really wondering about is why you upgrade every time, Ubuntu releases a new kernel... There are a pretty small amount of fixes related to KVM and hosts are located in the private networks, they are single-tenant. Maybe you

Upgrading OS on hypervisors

2018-12-13 Thread Rakesh v
Hello Folks I have a question regarding upgrading OS on hypervisor. We have few platforms with around 200 hypervisors in each platforms. Every time a new Ubuntu kernel comes in with new security patch like L1TF fix or other , we need to upgrade kernel on all hypervisors. Before rebooting