Changes in Swarm Cluster Installer (SCI) 2.2

Improvements

This release features the following improvements:

Swarm Storage may run without multicast for inter-node communication. The default SCI 2.2 is set to not use multicast for both new installations and upgrades. This default is preferred for new installations. Any existing Swarm cluster installation has multicast enabled. Changing this setting between values requires a full (non-rolling) reboot of the entire cluster during storage upgrade. If an organization requires rolling reboots to avoid downtime, restore the legacy setting after upgrading SCI, but before rebooting any Swarm Storage nodes.

Run the following command on the SCS node:
scsctl storage config set -d "cip.multicastEnabled=true"
Once the command runs successfuly, use a rolling reboot to upgrade to the new Swarm storage software.

Limitations

GUI-based upgrade functions well when the cluster is installed using SCI 2.x, with no manual changes in the configuration files (for example, gateway.cfg and elasticsearch.yml). However, this upgrade inherits the changes of SCS, storage, and gateway done through Content Portal and Swarm UI.