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6 Initiate a vCenter HA failover manually.
a Log in to the Active node with the vSphere Web Client and click Configure.
b Under Settings, select vCenter HA and click Initiate Failover.
c Click Yes to start the failover.
A dialog offers you the option to force a failover without synchronization. In most cases,
performing synchronization first is best.
You can see in the vSphere Web Client that the Passive node has become the Active node and the
Active node has become the Passive node.
7 Log in as root to the appliance shell of the new Active node by using the public IP address.
8 Patch the new Passive node.
a From the appliance shell of the Active node, establish an SSH session to the Passive node.
ssh root@Passve_node_IP_address
b From the appliance shell of the Passive node, patch the Passive node.
Use the software-packages utility.
c Exit the SSH session to the Passive node.
exit
9 Log out from the appliance shell of the Active node.
10 Exit the maintenance mode.
a In the vSphere Web Client inventory, click the Configure tab.
b Under Settings, select vCenter HA and click Edit.
c Select Turn On vCenter HA and click OK.
Update the Java Components and vCenter Server tc
Server with VIMPatch
You can separately update the Java version of all vCenter Server components depending on JRE server
by using the VIMPatch ISO file. You can also upgrade the vCenter Server tc Server by using the same
patch.
You can apply the patch without reinstalling the vCenter Server components. The patch delivers updates
for JRE and vCenter Server tc Server.
Prerequisites
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Download the Java Components patch from VMware downloads page at
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch. The name format is VMware-VIMPatch-6.5.0-
build_number-YYYYMMDD.iso.
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