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Preparing to Upgrade
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You must perform various listed tasks and procedures in preparation for upgrading vRealize Automation.
Perform the tasks required for upgrade in the order in which they appear in the checklist. See “Checklist for
Upgrading vRealize Automation Components,” on page 7.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Backing up and Saving Your Existing Environment,” on page 11
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“Increase vCenter Server Hardware Resources for Upgrade,” on page 13
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“Downloading vRealize Automation Appliance Updates,” on page 13
Backing up and Saving Your Existing Environment
Before you begin an upgrade process, you complete the backup prerequisites.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your source installation is fully installed and congured.
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Backup vRealize Automation appliance conguration les in the following directories for each
appliance.
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/etc/vcac/
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/etc/vco/
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/etc/apache2/
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/etc/rabbitmq/
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Backup all databases.
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Create a snapshot of your tenant conguration and the users assigned.
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Backup any les you have customized, such as DataCenterLocations.xml.
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Create a snapshot of your virtual appliances and IaaS servers. Adhere to regular guidelines for backing
up the entire system in case vRealize Automation upgrade fails for whatever reason. See Conguring
vRealize Suite 6.0 for Backup and Restore topics in vRealize Suite documentation.
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