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3. (KVM on RHEL 6.0/6.1/6.2 only) If the existing CloudPlatform deployment includes one or more
clusters of KVM hosts that run on RHEL 6.0, RHEL 6.1, or RHEL 6.2 operating system, you must
first upgrade the operating system version of these hosts to RHEL 6.3.
To do this task, see Section 9.4, “Upgrading Operating System version of KVM Hosts to RHEL 6.3
from RHEL 6.0 or 6.1 ”
4. Run the following command on all active Usage Server hosts to stop the Usage servers that are
currently enabled.
# service cloudstack-usage stop
5. Run the following command on all Management Servers to stop the Management Server hosts.
# service cloudstack-management stop
6. Back up MySQL databases at the MySQL master.
It is assumed in the following procedures that you have set the root password on the MySQL
database as per the CCP best practices recommendation. In the following commands, substitute
your own MySQL root password.
# mysqldump -u root -p<mysql_password> cloud > cloud-backup.dmp
# mysqldump -u root -p<mysql_password> cloud_usage > cloud-usage-backup.dmp
Upgrade Procedure
1. Access https://www.citrix.com/downloads/cloudplatform.html and download CloudPlatform 4.5
onto the new management server host.
Note
You need a valid Citrix account to access this link and download CloudPlatform 4.5.
2. You will get a file with the file name in the format CloudPlatform-4.5.0-N-
OSVERSION.tar.gz. Untar the file and run the install.sh script that is available with it.