7.4
Table Of Contents
- Upgrading from vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.4
- Contents
- Upgrading vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.4
- Prerequisites for Upgrading vRealize Automation
- Considerations About Upgrading to This vRealize Automation Version
- Upgrade and Identity Appliance Specifications
- Upgrade and Licensing
- Understanding How Roles Are Upgraded
- Understanding How Blueprints Are Upgraded
- Upgrade and vApp Blueprints, vCloud Endpoints, and vCloud Reservations
- Understanding How Multi-Machine Blueprints Are Upgraded
- Upgrade and Physical Endpoints, Reservations, and Blueprints
- Upgrade and Network Profile Settings
- Upgrade and Entitled Actions
- Upgrade and Custom Properties
- Upgrade and Application Services
- Upgrade and Advanced Service Design
- Upgrade and Blueprint Price Information
- Upgrade and Catalog Items
- Checklist for Upgrading vRealize Automation
- vRealize Automation Environment User Interfaces
- Upgrading VMware Products Integrated with vRealize Automation
- Preparing to Upgrade vRealize Automation
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance
- Upgrading the IaaS Server Components After Upgrading vRealize Automation
- Upgrading vRealize Orchestrator After Upgrading vRealize Automation
- Add Users or Groups to an Active Directory Connection
- Enable Your Load Balancers
- Post-Upgrade Tasks for Upgrading vRealize Automation
- Port Configuration for High-Availability Deployments
- Reconfigure Built-In vRealize Orchestrator for High Availability
- Enabling the Connect to Remote Console Action for Consumers
- Restore External Workflow Timeout Files
- Verify That vRealize Orchestrator Service Is Available
- Reconfigure Embedded vRealize Orchestrator Endpoint
- Restore Changes to Logging in the app.config File
- Enable Automatic Manager Service Failover After Upgrade
- Run Test Connection and Verify Upgraded Endpoints
- Troubleshooting the vRealize Automation Upgrade
- Installation or Upgrade Fails with a Load Balancer Timeout Error
- Upgrade Fails for IaaS Website Component
- Manager Service Fails to Run Due to SSL Validation Errors During Runtime
- Log In Fails After Upgrade
- Catalog Items Appear in the Service Catalog After Upgrade But Are Not Available to Request
- PostgreSQL External Database Merge Is Unsuccessful
- Join Cluster Command Appears to Fail After Upgrading a High-Availability Environment
- Upgrade Is Unsuccessful if Root Partition Does Not Provide Sufficient Free Space
- Backup Copies of .xml Files Cause the System to Time Out
- Delete Orphaned Nodes on vRealize Automation
- Unable to Create New Directory in vRealize Automation
- Some Virtual Machines Do Not Have a Deployment Created During Upgrade
- Certificate Not Trusted Error
- Installing or Upgrading to vRealize Automation Fails
- Update Fails to Upgrade the Management Agent
- Management Agent Upgrade is Unsuccessful
- vRealize Automation Update Fails Because of Default Timeout Settings
- Upgrading IaaS in a High Availability Environment Fails
- Work Around Upgrade Problems
Upgrade the IaaS Components After Upgrading
vRealize Automation
After upgrading vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.4, you must upgrade the SQL database and configure all
systems that have IaaS components installed. You can use these steps for minimal and distributed
installations.
Note The IaaS installer must be on the virtual machine that contains the IaaS components you want to
upgrade. You cannot run the installer from an external location, except for the Microsoft SQL database,
which also can be upgraded remotely from the Web node.
Verify that snapshots of the IaaS servers in your deployment are available. If the upgrade fails, you can
return to the snapshot and attempt another upgrade.
Perform the upgrade so that services are upgraded in the following order:
1 IaaS Websites
If you are using a load balancer, disable traffic to all non-primary nodes.
Finish the upgrade on one server before upgrading the next server that is running a Website service.
Begin with the one that has the Model Manager Data component installed.
If you are performing a manual external Microsoft SQL database upgrade, you must upgrade the
external SQL before you upgrade the Web node. You can upgrade the external SQL remotely from
the Web node.
2 Manager Services
Upgrade the active Manager Service before you upgrade the passive Manager Service.
If you do not have SSL encryption enabled in your SQL instance, deselect SSL encryption in the
IaaS Upgrade configuration dialog box.
3 DEM orchestrator and workers
Upgrade all DEM orchestrators and workers. Finish the upgrade on one server before you upgrade
the next server.
4 Agents
Finish the upgrade on one server before you upgrade the next server that is running an agent.
5 Management Agent
Is updated as part of the upgrade process.
Upgrading from vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.4
VMware, Inc. 50