Why RHEV hypervisor upgrade failed from RHEVH-7.0 to 7.2?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 7.2 Beta
  • ISO used Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (Beta) release 7.2 (20151210.1.el7ev)

Issue

  • Upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor version from 7.0 to 7.2
  • Getting installation failed error.

Resolution

  • Use recommended rhev-hypervisor7-7.2-20151129.1.iso or lstest GA release ISO rather than the Beta ISO.

Root Cause

  • Beta release version is not supported in production.

Diagnostic Steps

# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (Beta) release 7.2 (20151210.1.el7ev)

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