How to monitor Nutanix Acropolis upgrade

Nutanix’s OneClick upgrade is phenomenal tool which let’s you upgrade many components from single console

• AOS
• Hypervisor – AHV and ESXi
• BIOS,
• BMC firmware,
• disks firmware,
• NCC
• Prism Central
• Nutanix Files

and even more in upcoming releases. You can read more about OneClick Upgrade here

How to monitor Nutanix Acropolis upgrade.

#1 – from Prism

Go to Prism –> click on gear –> Upgrade Software –> Hypervisor

Monitor AOS upgrade from Prism

#2 – from a command line

Log in to any CVM in the cluster and

nutanix@NTNX-C-CVM:~$ upgrade_status
2016-11-01 12:44:49 INFO zookeeper_session.py:76 Using host_port_list: zk1:9876,zk2:9876,zk3:9876
2016-11-01 12:44:53 INFO upgrade_status:38 Target release version: el6-release-danube-4.7.2.1-stable-1d259ff878b2a21e5dd383b46236fa0e06cb4785
2016-11-01 12:44:53 INFO upgrade_status:43 Cluster upgrade method is set to: automatic rolling upgrade
2016-11-01 12:44:53 INFO upgrade_status:96 SVM 10.4.91.57 still needs to be upgraded. Installed release version: el6-release-danube-4.7.2-stable-67b64ffae7bdf93767ad825a911eeaa172f3b909, node is currently upgrading
2016-11-01 12:44:53 INFO upgrade_status:96 SVM 10.4.91.56 still needs to be upgraded. Installed release version: el6-release-danube-4.7.2-stable-67b64ffae7bdf93767ad825a911eeaa172f3b909
2016-11-01 12:44:53 INFO upgrade_status:96 SVM 10.4.91.58 still needs to be upgraded. Installed release version: el6-release-danube-4.7.2-stable-67b64ffae7bdf93767ad825a911eeaa172f3b909
nutanix@NTNXC-CVM:~$

How to restart an AOS upgrade, or stop upgrade, follow these steps:

1. Log into a CVM via SSH
2. enter the command “ cluster disable_auto_install”
3. Restart genesis on all nodes using the command “cluster restart_genesis”
4. Re-enable auto-install “cluster enable_auto_install”
5. Restart genesis again
6. Restart the upgrade through Prism