Upgrading Oracle Big Data Appliance Cluster to V4.6 with Mammoth (Software Deployment Bundle) Release V4.6 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
(Doc ID 2179371.1)
Last updated on JULY 26, 2021
Applies to:
Big Data Appliance Integrated Software - Version 4.6.0 to 4.6.0 [Release 4.6]Linux x86-64
Purpose
This document provides answers to frequently asked questions on how to upgrade an Oracle Big Data Appliance cluster to Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.6 using Mammoth (Software Deployment Bundle).
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Questions and Answers |
| When performing an upgrade to Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) V4.5 is it ok to be in Maintenance Mode to avoid Cloudera Manager upgrade-related alerts? |
| If the BDA has been changed from its original layout will that be a problem during upgrade? |
| What exactly is the rolling part of the rolling upgrade? |
| Does the cluster need to be in "Good Health" before upgrading to Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) V4.5? |
| Will CM Host Inspector "warnings" impact upgrade? |
| What Hadoop (CDH) version is on Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) V4.5? |
| What does Cloudera 5.7.0 Enterprise include? |
| Does BDA V4.5 continue to support security options for CDH Hadoop clusters? |
| Are there any new recommendations regarding using Microsoft Active Directory to configure a cluster? |
| Does the BDA upgrade to 4.5 impact existing sentry and Kerberos configurations? |
| On BDA V4.5 can I independently upgrade the R release and the Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop release? |
| On BDA V4.5 can I independently upgrade the Oracle Distribution for R? |
| Regarding Big Data SQL will the Exadata prerequisites change in BDA V4.5 from previous releases? |
| What version of NoSQL is on Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) V4.5? |
| Are there still two separate bundles for BDA 4.5, one for OEL 6 and one for OEL 5? |
| How many zipfiles does the Mammoth deployment have in BDA V4.5? |
| Is a BDA Base Image being released for v4.5.0? |
| Are there any steps to be aware of for configuring the network on new racks using BDA v4.5.0? |
| Generally speaking what base image is recommended when installing BDA 4.5?? |
| Each Mammoth bundle consists of three zip files. Can the second zipfile be used for reimaging as in the past? |
| What new features does Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.5.0 include? |
| What is the list of software upgrades are present in BDA V4.5? |
| Regarding HTTPS/Network Encryption, how is that enabled after upgrade? |
| What about HDFS Transparent Encryption/KMS? |
| What happens to Key Trustee Servers setup off the BDA during BDA 4.5 upgrade? |
| If HDFS Transparent Encryption was enabled in BDA V4.4 with Mammoth what happens during BDA 4.5 upgrade? |
| In the case of a pre-BDA 4.4 HDFS Transparent Encryption installation will that be upgraded as part of the BDA V4.5 upgrade? |
| How are pre-BDA 4.4 manually installed HDFS Transparent Encryption environments upgraded since Mammoth upgrade to 4.5 will not do that? |
| Is there anything new for Hue login? |
| Do CM, Hue and Oozie use HTTPS security by default? |
| Is there is an interactive bdscli utility on the BDA? |
| If BDD was manually installed on BDA V4.1 what happens on upgrade to BDA V4.5? |
| What is the BDD version of BDD supported on BDA V4.5? |
| Will "bda enable bdd" perform a bdd 1.1.1 upgrade to bdd 1.2.2 on bda 4.5? |
| How will BDD 1.1.1 be upgraded to BDD 1.2.2 on bda 4.5 then? |
| Can an upgrade to BDA V4.5 be performed from any previous BDA version? |
| Does this mean that an upgrade from a pre-V4.1 can not go directly to BDA V4.5.0? |
| Does this mean that an upgrade from a V2.4 will have a multiple upgrade path for example? |
| If multiple upgrades are required to get to BDA 4.5 does the critical metadata need to be backed up each time? |
| Will there be any problem upgrading BDA v4.4.0 / CDH 5.5.2. to BDA v4.5.0? |
| Will there be any problem upgrading any BDA version with a supported CDH version higher than the default to BDA V4.5? |
| After upgrade to BDA v4.5.0 can you roll back to a previous BDA version? |
| Is it possible to dual boot a starter rack to have BDA v4.5 and v4.4 by using one system disk for BDA v4.5 and one for BDA v4.5? |
| What about upgrading a CDH client, will that also require a two step approach? |
| The BDA servers are at CDH 5.7.0 Is it a problem if client/edge servers are running CDH 5.7.<x>? |
| Are all nodes of the cluster, however, required to have the exact same parcel version? |
| Does BDA V4.5 support the BdaDeploy.json file? |
| What version of the Oracle BDA Configuration Generation Utility is required for this release? |
| When upgrading from V2.5, V2.6 or V3.0.*,3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 are there changes to the Service Roles Layout? |
| Is Spark-on-YARN configured on the BDA V4.5 ? |
| If a cluster is running Standalone Spark, what will the Mammoth upgrade do since Spark-on-YARN is now configured in BDA V4.5? |
| If Spark-on-YARN was manually configured on BDA V4.1 will that impact upgrade to BDA V4.5 ? |
| What about Impala and Search are they configured on the BDA V4.5? |
| If Impala Llama was manually configured in BDA V4.1 will that impact upgrade to BDA V4.5? |
| When upgrading with disk encryption enabled why does the "./mammoth -p" output look different than that posted in the upgrade document? |
| Where is the list of known CDH 5 issues? |
| If the Mammoth upgrade fails do I have to create a SR and upload the diagnostic bundle generated? |
| Where is the BDA V4.5 documentation? |
| What is the direct link to the documentation "New features" section? |
| Are there any deprecated features? |
| Where is the Big Data Connector's documentation? |
| What are the Oracle Big Data Connectors (BDC) version changes? |
| Is the Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop upgraded during a BDA upgrade to 12.2.1? |
| If a patch is installed, will that be impacted by upgrade? |
| Is the CDH Deployment still parcel based? |
| When upgrading to BDA V4.5 do any one-off patches need to be applied? |
| BDA V4.5 includes CDH 5.7.0. Can I upgrade to a higher CDH version? |
| What about patching after the upgrade now that BDA V4.5 is parcel based? |
| When upgrading to BDA V4.5 if the cluster verification step fails can Mammoth be rerun? |
| Is it possible to run ./mammoth -c in the middle of an upgrade to see how things look? |
| What can be done to resolve "Acquiring installation lock" errors when adding a client/edge node back into a CDH cluster after upgrade? |
| Can the client hostnames and/or priviate InfiniBand IP addresses be changed during the upgrade? |
| After upgrade the user 'bdatestuser' was not available. Why is that? |
| After upgrade there is a problem using the 'hdfs' principal when AD Kerberos is enabled. Why is that? |
| What is the recommended way to integrate Kerberos with Active Directory (AD) on the BDA? |
| Where is the Cloudera documentation on CDH 5.7.0 Known Issues? |
| If MS Active Directory is in trust with MIT Kerberos is Used is there a Way to Block Users from Connecting and Running Jobs or Batch Updates During an Upgrade? |
| What about MegaCli64, any changes? |
| Is there support for the latest currently available ILOM firmware version for all BDA hardware in BDA V4.4? |
| Is a BDA upgrade possible if one of the servers is down? |
| If one of the ILOMs is down is it possible that a BDA upgrade can proceed? |
| Does the Mammoth upgrade to BDA 4.5 upgrade the rescue image? |
| Questions/Answers on handling predictive disk failures before/during upgrade. |
| If any disks that exhibit "other" errors fail or get into a failing (predictive error) state, right before upgrade or during upgrade what problems will be faced? |
| What about a disk that fails in the middle of upgrade? |
| Should we remove any failing disks from CM from the DataNode Data Directory dfs.data.dir, i.e. remove the mount /u0x/hadoop/dfs from there? |
| What is a summary of the failed/failing disk issue and upgrade? |
| References |