Migrating from Solace 8.4 to 8.5 - error at Docker startup

Question

Just installed and tried to start Solace 8.5 community edition in Docker. Had successfully been running 8.4 for weeks. 8.5 attempts to start and then dies with following error:

2017-09-11T18:55:36+0000  ip-10-97-56-158 root[178]: /usr/sw                        
adCmnDiskTrans.cpp:150 (ADMANAGER    - 0x00000001) main(0)@dataplane(11)                       
FATAL    file /usr/sw/internalSpool/softAdb/backingStore actual size(536870912) != 
expected size(805306368)

Rolling back to 8.4 runs fine. Docker command is:

docker run -v /data/vmr/adb:/usr/sw/adb -v /data/vmr/internalSpool/softAdb:/usr/sw/internalSpool/softAdb -v /data/vmr/jail:/usr/sw/jail -v /data/vmr/var:/usr/sw/var -v /data/vmr/internalSpool:/usr/sw/internalSpool -v /data/vmr/diags:/var/lib/solace/diags -d --network=host --uts=host --shm-size=4g --ulimit core=-1 --ulimit memlock=-1 --ulimit nofile=2448:38048 --cap-add=IPC_LOCK --cap-add=SYS_NICE --env 'username_admin_globalaccesslevel=admin' --env 'username_admin_password=admin' --name=solace8.5 solace-app:8.5.0.1008-community

Answer 1

It does not work because there is no upgrade path for the community edition VMR.

If you wish to migrate any message-vpn configs, generally there is a good chance of success by backing it up in CLI:

solace-old> show current-config message-vpn <name> > /configs/vpn-config.txt

and importing it in the newer release:

solace-new> source script /configs/vpn-config.txt stop-on-error

Ref: http://docs.solace.com/System-and-Software-Maintenance/Generating-CLI-Config-Sequences.htm

Note that you should empty out the volumes; don't try to use the same volumes that retained files from the older VMR on the newer VMR.