Service Engine Group upgrade failing with error: Upgrade/patch has already been applied on Service Engine group

Products

• VMware Avi Load Balancer

Issue/Introduction

This error can be seen when trying to upgrade from a base version to a patch if you're running a command like this:

upgrade segroup se_group_refs <SEG NAME> se_patch_ref <PATCH NAME> skip_warnings action_on_error suspend_upgrade_ops_on_error

Or

upgrade segroup se_group_refs <SEG NAME>  image_ref <IMAGE NAME> se_patch_ref <PATCH NAME> skip_warnings action_on_error suspend_upgrade_ops_on_error

 

Resolution

Instead of using the upgrade command use the patch command and this will ensure that the upgrade works like this:

 

patch segroup se_group_refs  <SEG NAME> se_patch_ref <PATCH NAME> skip_warnings action_on_error suspend_upgrade_ops_on_error

 

We have detailed documentation about all the upgrade/patch options on this document