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Order of Upgrading vSphere and Site Recovery Manager Components
You must upgrade certain components of your vSphere environment before you upgrade
Site Recovery Manager.
Upgrade the components on the protected site before you upgrade the components on the recovery site.
Upgrading the protected site first allows you to perform a disaster recovery on the recovery site if you
encounter problems during the upgrade that render the protected site unusable. The exception is the ESXi
hosts, which you can upgrade after you finish upgrading the other components on the protected and
recovery sites.
IMPORTANT If you configured bidirectional protection, in which each site acts as the recovery site for the
virtual machines on the other site, upgrade the most critical of the sites first.
1 Upgrade the Platform Services Controller and all components of vCenter Server on the protected site.
2 If you use vSphere Replication, upgrade the vSphere Replication deployment on the protected site.
3 Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server on the protected site.
4 If you use array-based replication, upgrade the storage replication adapters (SRA) on the protected site.
5 Upgrade the Platform Services Controller and all components of vCenter Server on the recovery site.
6 If you use vSphere Replication, upgrade the vSphere Replication deployment on the recovery site.
7 Upgrade Site Recovery Manager Server on the recovery site.
8 If you use array-based replication, upgrade the storage replication adapters (SRA) on the recovery site.
9 Verify the connection between the Site Recovery Manager sites.
10 Verify that your protection groups and recovery plans are still valid.
11 Upgrade ESXi Server on the recovery site.
12 Upgrade ESXi Server on the protected site.
13 Upgrade the virtual hardware and VMware Tools on the virtual machines on the ESXi hosts.
Prerequisites and Best Practices for Site Recovery Manager Upgrade
Before you upgrade Site Recovery Manager, you must perform preparatory tasks on both
Site Recovery Manager sites and verify that you have certain information.
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Make a full backup of the Site Recovery Manager database by using the tools that the database software
provides. For information about how to back up the embedded database, see “Back Up and Restore the
Embedded vPostgres Database,” on page 19. Migration of data from an external database to the
embedded database is not supported. Failure to back up the database results in the loss of all
Site Recovery Manager data if the upgrade fails.
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If you configured advanced settings in the existing installation, take a note of the settings that you
configured in Site Recovery > Sites > Site > Manage > Advanced Settings in the vSphere Web Client.
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