XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

gduperrey

@flakpyro Yes, it always takes a little time for the mirrors to synchronize.

I'm getting correct feedback from the main repository (https://updates.xcp-ng.org/) with the correct updates available.

manilx

@gduperrey I wonder why now I have to run those commands on my hosts each time for the updates to show:

yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum

Not fun

Greg_E

@gduperrey

Uggg... Just after I upgraded 8.2.1 to 8.3.x and did updates. Guess I have more waiting for me for later today or tomorrow.

archw

@flakpyro
I'm good now!

flakpyro

Updated around 43 hosts without issue.

Greg_E

I'm doing the latest production level updates announced yesterday... My pool has never migrated VMs as fast as it is now.

That was migrating several at a time, moving VMs back to "balanced" at the end is moving them at about half that speed one at a time. This is more than double what I was able to do with the same hardware on 8.2.1. It looks like it is actually capping at the maximum 10gbps speeds that the x710 cards and my switch can handle, that's never happened, not even on my lab which has been on v8.3 for over a year.

(note to self, might be time to upgrade those x520 cards in the lab to x710)

Next month's Windows updates might be interesting, hope this increase holds for that process too.

manilx

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manilx

said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

@gduperrey I wonder why now I have to run those commands on my hosts each time for the updates to show:
yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum
Not fun

@gduperrey Can you explain why this is happening and how to get updates showing automatically again?

gduperrey

@manilx said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

yum clean all

I can't explain it. I can't say what's going on on your system, especially with so little information.

Personally, I run the following commands all the time:

yum clean metadata ; yum update

I very rarely need to use yum clean all, and I don't remember having to do an additional rm. And yet, I run the above commands a lot during testing campaigns.

manilx

@gduperrey said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

yum clean metadata ; yum update

OK, I'll try this next time.

P.S I've updated the 2 hosts via XO all teh time from 8.3 beta. Always showed patches available in XO. Started with the previous 8.3 updates that they didn't show and I had to run those commands.

gduperrey

@manilx We recently upgraded our Koji build system. This may have caused disruptions in this recent update release yesterday, where an XML file was generated multiple times. This has now been fixed and should not happen again. This may explain the issue encountered this time, particularly with the notification of updates via XO.

Note that normally yum metadata expires after a few hours and so it should normally return to normal on its own.