Upgrading a database using Cloudera Operational Database
Learn how to upgrade your existing Cloudera Operational Database in the Cloudera
environment.
You need to use the CDP Beta CLI and run the
upgrade-database command to upgrade your database.
Required role: You must be logged into the Cloudera Operational Database as an
ODAdmin.
To use Cloudera Operational Database on a GCP environment, you must do it through CDP CLI with
--use-hdfs flag.
Before you perform the Cloudera Operational Database upgrade: In the Cloudera Manager properties,
increase the omid_max_heap_size property for the Omid
service to at least 3GB before starting the upgrade from 7.2.9/7.2.10 to
7.2.11:
Understand Cloudera environment and user management. For more information, see
User Management and Cloudera Environments
topics.
Ensure you are authorized to upgrade a database.
You must download and install the latest CDP CLI beta version.
Cloudera recommends that you run the
prepare-upgrade-database command before upgrading the
cluster. This command performs all validations and downloads all required
parcels for the upgrade operation. For more information, see
prepare-upgrade-database.
Log in to the CDP CLI tool.
Run the following command to prepare for the upgrade. This step is
optional.
To reduce the chances of upgrade failures, Cloudera Operational Database supports a preparation phase
for the runtime upgrades. During this phase, Cloudera Operational Database runs all the validations and
downloads the required parcels for the machines.
