Setup guide

7 Click Install.
NOTE During vShield App upgrade, the ESXi host is placed into Maintenance Mode and rebooted.
Ensure that virtual machines on the ESXi host are migrated (using DRS or vMotion), or that they are
powered off to allow the host to be placed into Maintenance Mode.
What to do next
Inspect each upgraded rule to ensure it works as intended. For information on adding new firewall rules,
see the vShield Administration Guide.
Upgrade vShield Edge from 5.0.x to 5.5.x
You must upgrade vShield Edge on each port group in your datacenter. You cannot upgrade vShield Edge if
the same backend IP address has been configured under different listeners with different ports.
vShield Edge 5.1 and later is not backward compatible and you cannot use 2.0 REST calls after the upgrade.
During the vShield Edge upgrade, there will be a brief network disruption for the networks that are being
served by the given vShield Edge instance.
Prerequisites
You must have been assigned the Enterprise Administrator or vShield Administrator role. If you have
vShield Edge 5.0.x, each 5.0.x vShield Edge instance on each portgroup in your datacenter must be
upgraded to 5.5.x.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vSphere Client.
2 Click the portgroup on which the vShield Edge is deployed.
3 Click the vShield Edge tab.
4 Click Upgrade.
5 View the upgraded vShield Edge.
a Select the datacenter corresponding to the port group on which you upgraded the vShield Edge.
b Click the Network Virtualization tab.
c Click Edges.
vShield Edge is upgraded to the compact size. A system event is generated to indicate the ID for each
upgraded vShield Edge instance.
What to do next
IMPORTANT Firewall rules from the previous release are upgraded with some modifications. Inspect each
upgraded rule to ensure it works as intended. For information on adding new firewall rules, see the vShield
Administration Guide.
If a user's scope in a previous release was limited to a port group which had a vShield Edge installation, the
user is automatically granted access to that vShield Edge after the upgrade.
Chapter 6 Upgrading vShield
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