This is unreleased documentation for SUSE® Virtualization v1.7 (Dev).

Upgrade from v1.7.x to v1.7.y

General information

An Upgrade button appears on the Dashboard screen whenever a new SUSE Virtualization version that you can upgrade to becomes available. For more information, see Start an upgrade.

For information about upgrading SUSE Virtualization in air-gapped environments, see Prepare an air-gapped upgrade.

Update the Harvester UI Extension on SUSE Rancher Prime v2.13

You must use a compatible version (v1.7.x) of the Harvester UI Extension to import SUSE Virtualization v1.7.x clusters on Rancher v2.13.

  1. On the Rancher UI, go to local → Apps → Repositories.

  2. Locate the repository named harvester, and then select ⋮ → Refresh.

  3. Go to the Extensions screen.

  4. Locate the extension named Harvester, and then click Update.

  5. Select a compatible version, and then click Update.

  6. Allow some time for the extension to be updated, and then refresh the screen.

Known issues

Upgrade is stuck in the "Post-draining" state

During the node draining process, the upgrade-repo deployment may get stuck when its SUSE Storage volume remains in the "Attaching" state. This causes the upgrade flow to stall in the "Post-draining" phase, since the post-drain jobs wait for the upgrade-repo deployment to become ready before proceeding.

The workaround is to delete the SUSE Storage replica of the upgrade-repo volume on the drained node. This allows the volume to attach and the upgrade flow to continue. Note that any node being drained during the upgrade may encounter this issue, so this workaround may need to be applied whenever it occurs.

Related issues: #9597 and #12226