Specifications

Upgrading Update Manager 5
You can upgrade Update Manager 1.0 Update 6 and Update Manager 4.x to Update Manager 5.0.
You can install Update Manager 5.0 only on a 64-bit operating system. If you are running an earlier version
of Update Manager on a 32-bit platform, you must either back up and restore your database manually, or
use the data migration tool to back up the existing data on the 32-bit machine, and then restore your data on
the 64-bit machine on which you are installing Update Manager 5.0.
When you upgrade Update Manager, you cannot change the installation path and patch download location.
To change these parameters, you must install a new version of Update Manager rather than upgrade.
Previous versions of Update Manager use a 512-bit key and self-signed certificate and these are not replaced
during upgrade. If you require a more secure 2048-bit key, you can either perform a fresh installation of
Update Manager 5.0, or use the Update Manager Utility to replace the existing certificate.
Scheduled tasks for virtual machine patch scan and remediation are not removed during the upgrade. After
the upgrade, you can edit and remove scheduled scan tasks that exist from previous releases. You can
remove existing scheduled remediation tasks but you cannot edit them.
Virtual machine patch baselines are removed during the upgrade. Existing scheduled tasks that contain
them run normally and ignore only the scanning and remediation operations that use virtual machine patch
baselines.
You must upgrade the Update Manager database during the Update Manager upgrade. You can select
whether to keep your existing data in the database or to replace it during the upgrade.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Upgrade the Update Manager Server,” on page 73
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“Upgrade the Update Manager Client Plug-In,” on page 75
Upgrade the Update Manager Server
To upgrade an instance of Update Manager that is installed on a 64-bit machine, you must first upgrade
vCenter Server to a compatible version.
The Update Manager 5.0 release allows upgrades from Update Manager 1.0 Update 6 and Update Manager
4.x.
Prerequisites
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Ensure that you grant the database user the required set of privileges. See the Preparing the Update
Manager Database chapter in Installing and Administering VMware vSphere Update Manager.
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Stop the Update Manager service and back up the Update Manager database. The installer upgrades
the database schema, making the database irreversibly incompatible with previous Update Manager
versions.
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