Upgrading HDP Manually
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Getting Ready to Upgrade

HDP Stack upgrade involves upgrading from HDP 2.0 to HDP 2.4.0 versions and adding the new HDP 2.4.0 services.

[Note]Note

The su commands in this section use keywords to represent the Service user. For example, "hdfs" is used to represent the HDFS Service user. If you are using another name for your Service users, you will need to substitute your Service user name in each of the su commands.

The first step is to ensure you keep a backup copy of your HDP 2.0 configurations.

[Note]Note

You must use kinit before running the commands as any particular user.

  1. Hardware recommendations

    Although there is no single hardware requirement for installing HDP, there are some basic guidelines. The HDP packages for a complete installation of HDP 2.4.0 will take up about 2.5 GB of disk space.

  2. Back up the following HDP directories:

    • /etc/hadoop/conf

    • /etc/hbase/conf

    • /etc/hive/conf

    • /etc/pig/conf

    • /etc/sqoop/conf

    • /etc/flume/conf

    • /etc/mahout/conf

    • /etc/oozie/conf

    • /etc/zookeeper/conf

    • Optional: Back up your userlogs directories, ${mapred.local.dir}/userlogs.

  3. Run the fsck command as the HDFS Service user and fix any errors. (The resulting file contains a complete block map of the file system.)

    su - hdfs -c "hdfs fsck / -files -blocks -locations > dfs-old-fsck-1.log"

  4. Use the following instructions to compare status before and after the upgrade:

    The following commands must be executed by the user running the HDFS service (by default, the user is hdfs).

    1. Capture the complete namespace of the file system. (The second command does a recursive listing of the root file system.)

      su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -ls -R / > dfs-old-lsr-1.log"

      [Note]Note

      In secure mode you must have kerberos credentials for the hdfs user.

    2. Run the report command to create a list of DataNodes in the cluster.

      su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfsadmin -report > dfs-old-report-1.log"

    3. Optional: You can copy all or unrecoverable only data storelibext-customer directory in HDFS to a local file system or to a backup instance of HDFS.

    4. Optional: You can also repeat the steps 3 (a) through 3 (c) and compare the results with the previous run to ensure the state of the file system remained unchanged.

  5. As the HDFS user, save the namespace by executing the following command:

    su - hdfs

    hdfs dfsadmin -safemode enter

    hdfs dfsadmin -saveNamespace

  6. Back up your NameNode metadata.

    • Copy the following checkpoint files into a backup directory. If these directories do not exist, create them.

      • dfs.namenode.dir/edits

        dfs.namenode.name.dir/image/fsimage

        dfs.namenode.name.dir/current/fsimage

    • Store the layoutVersion of the namenode.

      ${dfs.namenode.name.dir}/current/VERSION

  7. Finalize any PRIOR HDFS upgrade, if you have not done so already.

    su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfsadmin -finalizeUpgrade"

  8. Optional: Back up the Hive Metastore database.

    The following instructions are provided for your convenience. For the latest backup instructions, please see your database documentation.

    Table 4.1. Hive Metastore Database Backup and Restore

    Database TypeBackupRestore

    MySQL

    mysqldump $dbname > $outputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    mysqldump hive > /tmp/mydir/backup_hive.sql

    mysql $dbname < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    mysql hive < /tmp/mydir/backup_hive.sql

    Postgres

    sudo -u $username pg_dump $databasename > $outputfilename.sql sbr

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres pg_dump hive > /tmp/mydir/backup_hive.sql

    sudo -u $username psql $databasename < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres psql hive < /tmp/mydir/backup_hive.sql

    Oracle

    Connect to the Oracle database using sqlplus export the database:

    exp username/password@database full=yes file=output_file.dmp mysql $dbname < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    mysql hive < /tmp/mydir/backup_hive.sql

    Import the database:

    imp username/password@database file=input_file.dmp


  9. Optional: Back up the Oozie metastore database.

    These instructions are provided for your convenience. Please check your database documentation for the latest back up instructions.

    Table 4.2. Oozie Metastore Database Backup and Restore

    Database TypeBackupRestore

    MySQL

    mysqldump $dbname > $outputfilename.sql

    For example:

    mysqldump oozie > /tmp/mydir/backup_oozie.sql

    mysql $dbname < $inputfilename.sql

    For example:

    mysql oozie < /tmp/mydir/backup_oozie.sql

    Postgres

    sudo -u $username pg_dump $databasename > $outputfilename.sql

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres pg_dump oozie > /tmp/mydir/backup_oozie.sql

    sudo -u $username psql $databasename < $inputfilename.sql

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres psql oozie < /tmp/mydir/backup_oozie.sql


  10. Optional: Back up the Hue database.

    The following instructions are provided for your convenience. For the latest backup instructions, please see your database documentation. For database types that are not listed below, follow your vendor-specific instructions.

    Table 4.3. Hue Database Backup and Restore

    Database Type BackupRestore

    MySQL

    mysqldump $dbname > $outputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    mysqldump hue > /tmp/mydir/backup_hue.sql

    mysql $dbname < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    mysql hue < /tmp/mydir/backup_hue.sql

    Postgres

    sudo -u $username pg_dump $databasename > $outputfilename.sql sbr

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres pg_dump hue > /tmp/mydir/backup_hue.sql

    sudo -u $username psql $databasename < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    For example:

    sudo -u postgres psql hue < /tmp/mydir/backup_hue.sql

    Oracle

    Connect to the Oracle database using sqlplus. Export the database.

    For example:

    exp username/password@database full=yes file=output_file.dmp mysql $dbname < $inputfilename.sqlsbr

    Import the database:

    For example:

    imp username/password@database file=input_file.dmp

    SQLite

    /etc/init.d/hue stop

    su $HUE_USER

    mkdir ~/hue_backup

    sqlite3 desktop.db .dump > ~/hue_backup/desktop.bak

    /etc/init.d/hue start

    /etc/init.d/hue stop

    cd /var/lib/hue

    mv desktop.db desktop.db.old

    sqlite3 desktop.db < ~/hue_backup/desktop.bak

    /etc/init.d/hue start


  11. Stop all services (including MapReduce) and client applications deployed on HDFS using the instructions provided in the Stopping HDP Services.

  12. Verify that edit logs in ${dfs.namenode.name.dir}/current/edits* are empty.

    1. Run: hdfs oev -i ${dfs.namenode.name.dir}/current/edits_inprogress_* -o edits.out

    2. Verify edits.out file. It should only have OP_START_LOG_SEGMENT transaction. For example:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><EDITS>
      <EDITS_VERSION>-56</EDITS_VERSION>
      <RECORD>
      <OPCODE>OP_START_LOG_SEGMENT</OPCODE>
      <DATA>
      <TXID>5749</TXID>
      </DATA>
      </RECORD>
    3. If edits.out has transactions other than OP_START_LOG_SEGMENT run the following steps and then verify edit logs are empty.

      • Start the existing version NameNode.

      • Ensure there is a new FS image file.

      • Shut the NameNode down.

        hdfs dfsadmin – saveNamespace

  13. Rename or delete any paths that are reserved in the new version of HDFS.

    When upgrading to a new version of HDFS, it is necessary to rename or delete any paths that are reserved in the new version of HDFS. If the NameNode encounters a reserved path during upgrade, it will print an error such as the following:

    /.reserved is a reserved path and .snapshot is a reserved path component in this version of HDFS. 
    Please rollback and delete or rename this path, or upgrade with the 
    -renameReserved key-value pairs option to automatically rename these paths during upgrade.

    Specifying -upgrade -renameReserved optional key-value pairs causes the NameNode to automatically rename any reserved paths found during startup.

    For example, to rename all paths named .snapshot to .my-snapshot and change paths named .reserved to .my-reserved, specify:

    -upgrade -renameReserved .snapshot=.my-snapshot,.reserved=.my-reserved.

    If no key-value pairs are specified with -renameReserved, the NameNode will suffix reserved paths with .<LAYOUT-VERSION>.UPGRADE_RENAMED. For example:

    .snapshot.-51.UPGRADE_RENAMED.

    [Note]Note

    We recommend that you perform a -saveNamespace before renaming paths (running -saveNamespace appears in a previous step in this procedure). This is because a data inconsistency can result if an edit log operation refers to the destination of an automatically renamed file.

    Also note that running -renameReserved will rename all applicable existing files in the cluster. This may impact cluster applications.