Changes and Improvements in Release 2.4.4.1

This section describes functional changes, improvements and bug fixes compared to the previous release.

Ethernet-based Rack Update Only

The 2.4.4.1 software update is designed for the Ethernet-based Oracle Private Cloud Appliance racks. Your Ethernet-based rack must be at version 2.4.4 before you can upgrade to version 2.4.4.1. For upgrade information, see Upgrading Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Upgrader Changes

For release 2.4.4.1, health checks and additional pre-checks have been added to the upgrader code to ensure the system is healthy and ready for upgrade. For more information, see Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Upgrade Guide for Release 2.4.4.1.

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Installation Changes

The methodology used for upgrading compute nodes has changed for release 2.4.4.1. In the prior release, the pca_upgrager tool was used to upgrade compute nodes. For this release, compute node upgrades are performed using the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance update compute-node command, which provides more flexibility in scheduling compute node upgrades. For more information, see "Upgrading the Virtualization Platform" in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Upgrade Guide for Release 2.4.4.1.

New CLI Functionality for the Phone Home Service

Starting with release 2.4.4.1, you can enable or disable the Phone Home service on the management nodes using the set system-property command in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance CLI.

To set the Phone Home option, log in to the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance CLI on each management node and set the service to the desired option.

# ssh root@10.100.1.101
root@10.100.1.101's password:
root@ovcamn05r1 ~]# pca-admin
PCA> set system-property phonehome [enable | disable]

Bugs Fixed in Release 2.4.4.1

The following table lists notable bugs that have been fixed in Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.1.

Table 2-4 List of Fixed Bugs

Bug ID	Description
34318768	"[X8-2] During boot of CN, RAID Card failure caused provisioning to overwrite FC LUN Repo"
34099145	"kdump service not operational on compute nodes updated to kernel version: 4.14.35-2047.511.5.6.el7uek.x86_64 "
33935672	"PCA 2.4.4 pca_healthcheck fails on valid X9 BIOS version 61040500 "
33925660	"[X8-2] PCA - Provisioning status give false impression of CN state"
32702599	"PCA: The pca_healthchecker Gets java.lang.IllegalArgumentException If Compute Node IPMI Not Enabled "
33731454	"[X8-2] Add tcpdump rpm to CN repos"
33699788	"[X8-2] delete oci-backup/target command without an argument fails with index out of range error"
33238764	"[X8-2] PCA Healthcheck - Root disk need not always be on /dev/sda - Remove assumption "
31721530	"[X8-2] pca_upgrader precheck should be a super set of checks that would fail if the healthcheck fails "