[TEST] v1.8.0 one node upgrade with pci device

[noahgildersleeve]

Prerequisites:

• PCI enabled
• VLAN 1 network on mgmt and 1 network on other NICs
• 2 Virtual machines with data and md5sum computed- 1 running, 1 stopped
• 1 VM network running on PCI device.
• 2 VM backup, snapshots - 1 backup when VM is running and 1 backup when VM is stooped
• Enable all the Add-ons

Steps:

• Import Harvester into a Rancher cluster
• Create guest cluster (1 control plane, 1 worker)
• Deploy load balancer using ip pool
• Deploy PVC with Harvester SC and attach with a workload
• Upgrade Harvester

Post upgrade checks:

• Dependencies Check
• dependency_charts
• Versions of all the crds
• virtual machines should be stopped during the upgrade and on doing restart should be accessible.
• Restore the backups, check the data
• Image and volume status
• Monitoring chart status
• VM operations are highlighted and working fine.
• Add a node after the upgrade
• Scale up guest cluster
• Scale down and up the workloads in the guest cluster.
• Reboot the Harvester node.

No.	Guest OS	Step 1		Step 2		Step 3
4	RHEL 9 RHEL 10 Windows Server 2025	Harvester v1.7.1 Rancher v2.13.2 Guest RKE2: v1.33	-->	Harvester v1.7.1 Rancher v2.14.0 Guest RKE2: v1.34	-->	Harvester v1.8.0 Rancher v2.14.0 Guest RKE2: v1.35

[noahgildersleeve]

Validated with associated versions.