Is it ok to run yum or windows updates on VSAN installs?

[Wifear]

Is it ok to run yum or windows updates on VSAN installs? For some reason I thought you should not run yum update but only use the starwind update script but I have found that it only updates starwind and not the OS.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Windows updates are OK. yum is not quite ok (better not to do that) because /boot can be filled.

[Sophia2005]

You can run 'yum update,' but do so with caution. The StarWind script only updates VSAN, not the OS. Always test updates first if possible, especially kernel or network-related ones, and update one node at a time in clusters. For Windows, the same rule — manual updates with planned reboots.

[yaroslav (staff)]

You SHOULD NOT run yum update because /boot can be filled. Use the updater.
For CentOS7 CVM, go for offline update procedure.