HyperFlex Upgrade to 3.0(1e) - DRS - No Active Hosts

[jweier_elys]

Hey - I'm encountering an issue when attempting to upgrade an existing HX cluster from 3.0(1c) to 3.0(1e). During the upgrade validation steps it fails with the following error:

Upgrade validations failed. DRS Fault: There are no active hosts in the cluster. View springpath_validation.log for details.

If I SSH to the controller VM and investigate /var/log/springpath/springpath_validation.log I see the same error but unfortunately no additional details.

We've verified that DRS is enabled and fully automated. Any ideas?

Thanks!

-Jay

[jweier_elys]

I raised a case and this appears to be a bug in 3.0(1e). I was able to workaround the issue with TAC by disabling the DRS check within the pre-validation script.

-Jay

[jwoppert@mke]

Do you have this process documented and could you post it on here?

[jweier_elys]

It was pretty in depth. TAC had to go into the scripts and edit a few locations. Sorry I can't help.

[Ignacio Orozco]

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvm77294

Go to SCVM with cluster management IP and edit the following file:

vi /usr/share/springpath/storfs-misc/validation/workflow_scripts/pre_upgrade_cluster_check.xml

Locate section
<;validator type="vcenter-validate-failover" description="Validate DRS Failover">;
<;argument name="vcenter-url" ref="vcenter-url"/>;
<;argument name="vcenter-user" ref="vcenter-user"/>;
<;argument name="vcenter-password" ref="vcenter-password"/>;
<;argument name="vcenter-datacenter" ref="vcenter-datacenter"/>;
<;argument name="ip-address-list" ref="ip-address-list"/>;
<;argument name="skip" ref="........"/>;
<;/validator>;

Changed <;argument name="skip" ref="......"/>; to <;argument name="skip" value="true"/>;
 Save the file and hit retry on upgrade.

[Rob_d]

Thanks, Ignacio.

We had this exact problem and used the documented work around. It worked as advertised and we were able to proceed with the upgrade.

Thanks for posting this workaround.