Ticket 10392

Summary:	assistance upgrading from Slurm 17.02 to Slurm 'latest' on Centos 7.3 platform
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	Soporte Modemat <soporte.modemat>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Scott Hilton <scott>
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Version:	21.08.x
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Description Soporte Modemat 2020-12-08 09:33:44 MST

Hello

I would like you to help me with assistance for upgrading from Slurm 17.02 to Slurm 'latest' on Centos 7.3 platform (Stacki 4.0). Currently we have installed:
slurm-17.02.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64. In addition to that, I would like to know how can I prepare the requirements for slurm the latest version on Stacki. This is because in the next days I will prepare a test environment. Do you have any recommendation about Stacki or other operating system to install the latest version of slurm?

Comment 2 Scott Hilton 2020-12-08 13:23:45 MST

Hello,

Please look at the documentation for the detailed instructions and ask me any specific questions you have.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html#upgrade

A few notes I would like to emphasize:

Before upgrading I recommend backing up the database.

Because slurm only supports upgrading from last two major releases you will have to upgrade in steps. I recommend upgrading to 18.08 then 20.02 then 20.11(which came out a month ago). Use the latest point releases in each major release (i.e. use 18.08.9 not 18.08.1)

Major Slurm releases:
17.02 (start)
17.11
18.08 (upgrade 1)
19.05
20.02 (upgrade 2)
20.11 (upgrade 3) (latest release)

Most sites will install slurm from source. Though you may also install via RPM.

We do not support Stacki directly. However, many sites do use some sort of provisioning tool like Stacki to set up their nodes.

-Scott

Comment 3 Scott Hilton 2020-12-21 09:29:51 MST

If you have any follow up questions feel free to reopen this ticket.

-Scott