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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter AppSpeed User’s Guide
- Contents
- AppSpeed Overview
- Viewing Performance Data
- About Views
- View Summary Data for Applications and Servers
- View Application Data
- View Server Data
- View Transaction Data
- Performance Indicators
- Working with the Topology Map
- AppSpeed Administration
- Event Management
- Upgrading AppSpeed
- Troubleshooting
- Index
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IfanewversionofAppSpeedisavailable,youcanupgradetothatversion.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“OverviewoftheUpgradeProcess”onpage 41
“UpgradeAppSpeed”onpage 41
Overview of the Upgrade Process
TheAppSpeedupgradeprocessusesanISOimageandisfullyautomated.TheISOimageisprovidedby
VMware.
YouupgradeAppSpeedbyconnectingtheISOimagewiththenewversiontotheAppSpeedservermachine
andrunningacommand‐lineinterface(CLI)command.TheCLIcommandperformsthefollowingactions:
1Upgrades
theAppSpeedserverandperformstwosequentialreboots.
2SetsuptheAppSpeedserverwiththenewversion,keepingallconfigurationsandmonitoringdataofthe
previousversion.
3CreatesarecoveryvirtualmachinesnapshotontheAppSpeedservermachinetowhichyoucanrevertat
anytime.
4Createsabackupcopyofall
theconfigurationandmonitoringdatatoenabletheupgradetorestore
existingdata.
5 Distributestheupgradedversiontoallprobes.
YoucanobservetheprogressoftheAppSpeedserverupgradeandsetupprocessesfromtheconsole.Youcan
observetheredeploymentoftheprobesintheAppSpeeduserinterface.
Upgrade AppSpeed
YouupgradeAppSpeedversionusingtheISOimageprovidedbyVMware.
To upgrade AppSpeed
1 SavetheISOfileprovidedbyVMwaretoalocationonyournetwork.
2InthevSphereClientorVIClient,connecttheAppSpeedservertotheISOfile.
a SelecttheAppSpeedservermachineintheinventorytree.
bClickConnectCD/DVDandselectConnecttoISOimagefromthedrop‐downmenu.
cBrowsetothelocationoftheISOfile.
3LogintotheAppSpeedserverconsoleastheconsoleuser.
4Fromthedefaultconsoleshell,runthecommandupgrade_AppSpeed.
Upgrading AppSpeed
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