Manual Rolling Upgrade Description

In a manual rolling upgrade, you upgrade the MapR software one node at a time so that the cluster as a whole remains operational throughout the process.

NOTE: Rolling upgrades to MapR 6.0 or later are supported only for clusters running MapR 5.2.x with MEP 3.0.1 or later. If you are upgrading from an earlier version, upgrade MapR core manually and offline. See Offline and Manual Upgrade Procedure.

Before you Upgrade

Perform the following steps before you begin a manual rolling upgrade:

  • Determine the upgrade groups. To see a list of services on each node, you can run the following command: 

    maprcli node list -columns hostname,csvc
  • If the cluster is secure, the MapR Admin user must have a security ticket created before running the upgrade. Otherwise, some upgrade commands will not run.

Group Upgrade Order

Upgrade cluster nodes in groups based on the services running on each node. Upgrade groups of nodes in the following order:

Group Nodes in this Group
1 Each node only has Zookeeper. This establishes a stable ZooKeeper quorum on the new version, which will remain active through the rest of the upgrade process.
2

Each node only has Fileserver or it has Fileserver and Zookeeper.
3 Each node only has NodeManager or it has NodeManager, FileServer, and Zookeeper
4 Each node only has ResourceManager or it has ResourceManager, NodeManager, FileServer, and Zookeeper. When you upgrade nodes in this group, upgrade nodes with the standyby ResourceManagers before you upgrade the node with the active ResourceManager.
5

Each node has ResourceManager, NodeManager, FileServer, and Zookeeper.
6

Each node only has CLDB server or it has CLDB server, ResourceManager, NodeManager, FileServer, and Zookeeper. When you upgrade nodes in this group, upgrade nodes with the slave CLDB before you upgrade the node with the master CLDB.

Package Upgrade Order

When you upgrade each node, upgrade existing packages in the following order:

  • On all operating systems except SUSE, upgrade the mapr-core package first. Subsequent packages can be done in any order.
  • On SUSE, upgrade the mapr-compat-suse package first and the mapr-core package second. Subsequent packages can be done in any order.

The following is a list of the primary packages:

  • mapr-cldb
  • mapr-compat-suse (if upgrading on SUSE)
  • mapr-core-internal
  • mapr-core
  • mapr-fileserver
  • mapr-hadoop-core
  • mapr-historyserver
  • mapr-mapreduce2
  • mapr-nfs
  • mapr-nodemanager
  • mapr-resourcemanager
  • mapr-webserver
  • mapr-zk-internal
  • mapr-zookeeper

What's Next

See Manual Rolling Upgrade Procedure