Cloudera Enterprise 6.1 and HDP 3.1 reach End of Support (EoS) as per the Support Lifecycle Policy in December 2021. This is followed by Cloudera Enterprise 6.2 and 6.3, both of which reach EoS in March 2022. As you plan your CDP upgrade and migration strategy, reviewing and applying the recommendations from validations will increase stability and avoid known challenges others have faced.   The validations suite has been focused on enabling your success during the upgrade/migration process to CDP, creating new in-depth checks that are readily available for self-service consumption. To begin using validations please visit the Assets section of MyCloudera where you can review your validation alerts along with steps to resolve those alerts in order to maximize cluster operational health and help ensure your upgrade to CDP goes smoothly.   Validations are available in MyCloudera for CDH/Cloudera Manager clusters where diagnostic bundles have been sent to Cloudera Support. As of November 2021, we're searching 300 known problem signatures in customers' diagnostic data including over a dozen brand new critical alerts specific to CDP Private Cloud Base upgrade migration. A demonstration video showing the validations interface in MyCloudera can be found here.   Customers running CDH/Cloudera Manager are able to review and resolve misconfigurations reported in MyCloudera in a pre-upgrade manner before executing an upgrade to CDP. This can be accomplished by first sending a new diagnostic bundle to Cloudera Support and reviewing/resolving the alerts displayed on MyCloudera during the CDP upgrade planning phase.   Customers running HDP/Ambari are not able to receive validations in MyCloudera, but they are able to submit a diagnostic bundle from the resulting CDP Private Cloud Base cluster post-upgrade in order to receive validation alerts. Configuration fixes can then be executed in the CDP environment based on the alerts uncovered before runtime occurs thereby avoiding any future impact.   In addition to validation alerts, Cloudera Support would like to offer the following helpful resources to CDH/Cloudera Manager & HDP/Ambari customers who are planning their adoption of CDP:   Review known issues and incompatible product changes in the Release Notes Review guidance and recommendations for Migrating Workloads Review the unsupported interfaces and features from CDH/HDP that are no longer available in CDP Gather performance data on your existing critical jobs (query explain data) and save example application bundles to an "Upgrade Planning" support case with Cloudera Support How to rebuild custom applications with new libraries If you have any questions about your upgrade and adoption of CDP please contact your Cloudera account team representative. ... View more

The cluster validations service is included in a customer's enterprise subscription at no additional cost. All customers with access to the Support case portal will also be able to take advantage of our validations program.   In order to take advantage of Validations please first provide a new diagnostic bundle from all of your supported clusters and allow time for processing.   Cluster diagnostic data (bundles) can be sent to Cloudera Support directly from the product (CDP Private Cloud Base or legacy CDH/CM), as an attachment in a support case, or manually through a phone_home script available on cloudera.com. Cloudera's arsenal of problem signatures relates to misconfigurations, security vulnerabilities, performance degradation, deviations from our known best practices, as well as many other types of commonly experienced issues that can result in general cluster instability.   Validation alerts are designated a severity level, including critical, error, warning, information, and curiosity based on the impact to the cluster. Included with the alert are the relevant problem details, affected hosts in the cluster, as well as applicable documentation.   Beginning in March 2021, Cloudera Support is excited to announce that customers will now have on-demand self-service access to their entire suite of cluster validations directly in the MyCloudera customer portal. This is a replacement for the historical process of utilizing proactive support cases as the alerting vehicle for Cloudera's customers.   New Validations functionality in MyCloudera includes: The ability to mark specific validation alerts as "reviewed" to classify those that no longer require attention The capability of silencing a cluster's notifications if it's designated as a sandbox, for example Self-service control over who is designated as a "Validation Alert Recipient" on the account in question (email notifications) Cloudera Support recommends that customers review their validation alerts contained in MyCloudera under Assets and perform the recommended corrective actions.   If planning or consultative assistance is required, customers can contact their sales account team for advice and recommendations. For technical assistance with a break/fix support matter relating to the validation, a case can be filed using the instructions here.   Cloudera is continuously expanding, improving, and investing in its predictive alerting capabilities. If you have any feedback or suggestions please let us know: predictive-support-feedback@cloudera.com   Thank you for your interest in Cloudera Support's Predictive Alerting. ... View more

The CDP Upgrade Advisor is a utility available on  my.cloudera.com  for Cloudera customers. This tool performs an evaluation of diagnostic data to determine the CDP readiness of your CDH or HDP cluster environment.    Running the upgrade advisor against the cluster in question is one of your first steps to adopting CDP, followed by an in-depth conversation with your Cloudera account team to review the specific results. This utility raises awareness of clusters that may present risks during an upgrade to CDP due to, for example, an unsupported of the operating system currently in use.   The upgrade advisor utility is focused on the environment and platform in use but doesn’t take into consideration use-cases, the actual cluster data, or workflows in use. Analysis of these critical areas occurs as part of your CDP Journey Workshop with your Cloudera account team and Professional Services.   To run the Upgrade Advisor: Click Upgrade Path to begin the evaluation based on your diagnostic data The first thing you’ll see is a list of your active assets (CDH, DataFlow, HDP, Key Trustee, and CDP assets). The upgrade advisor is available only for CDH and HDP environments. Click the respective CDP Upgrade Advisor link on the right-hand side of a CDH or HDP asset to obtain the evaluation results   The Upgrade Advisor determines a recommended upgrade path for the asset in question. You may see a recommendation to upgrade to CDP Data Center (Private Cloud Base), Public Cloud, or not to upgrade at this time due to the environmental failures identified.     Beneath the recommendations are details of the cluster asset being evaluated along with contact details for your Cloudera account team.     The Evaluation Details section includes the results of the validation checks being performed against your diagnostic data. This includes risks and recommendations such as a particular service or version of 3rd party software that will not be supported after an upgrade to CDP. Each category of the evaluation details also features icons that will take you to the relevant CDP documentation.   For further information including a video demonstration of the Upgrade Advisor please see the CDP blog post here.   Thank you for your interest in adopting CDP! ... View more

The CDP Upgrade Advisor is a utility available on MyCLoudera  for Cloudera customers. This tool performs an evaluation of diagnostic data to determine the CDP readiness of your CDH or HDP cluster environment.   Running the upgrade advisor against the cluster in question is one of your first steps to adopting CDP, followed by an in-depth conversation with your Cloudera account team to review the specific results. This utility raises awareness of clusters that may present risks during an upgrade to CDP due to, for example, an unsupported of the operating system currently in use.   The upgrade advisor utility is focused on the environment and platform in use but doesn’t take into consideration use-cases, the actual cluster data, or workflows in use. Analysis of these critical areas occurs as part of your CDP Journey Workshop with your Cloudera account team and Professional Services.   To run the Upgrade Advisor: Click Upgrade Path once logged in to https://my.cloudera.com to begin the evaluation based on your diagnostic data The first thing you’ll see is a list of your active assets (CDH, DataFlow, HDP, Key Trustee, and CDP assets). The upgrade advisor is available only for CDH and HDP environments. Click the respective CDP Upgrade Advisor link on the right-hand side of a CDH or HDP asset to obtain the evaluation results The Upgrade Advisor determines a recommended upgrade path for the asset in question. You may see a recommendation to upgrade to CDP Data Center (Private Cloud Base), Public Cloud, or not to upgrade at this time due to the environmental failures identified.   Beneath the recommendations are details of the cluster asset being evaluated along with contact details for your Cloudera account team.    The Evaluation Details section includes the results of the validation checks being performed against your diagnostic data. This includes risks and recommendations such as a particular service or version of 3rd party software that will not be supported after an upgrade to CDP. Each category of the evaluation details also features icons that will take you to the relevant CDP documentation.   You can view a video  (recommended) about the Upgrade Advisor here. ... View more