7.4

Updating the
vRealize Automation Appliance
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After you finish the upgrade prerequisites and download the virtual appliance update, you install the
update on the vRealize Automation 7.1, 7.2, or 7.3.x appliance to upgrade to 7.4.
For a minimal environment, you install the update on the vRealize Automation appliance. For a distributed
environment, you install the update on the master appliance node. The time required for the update to
finish varies according to your environment and network. When the update finishes, the system displays
the changes made on the Update Status page of vRealize Automation Appliance Management. When the
appliance update finishes, you must reboot the appliance. When you reboot the master appliance in a
distributed environment, the system reboots each replica node.
After you reboot, Waiting for VA services to start appears on the Update Status page. The IaaS
update starts when the system is fully initialized and all services are running. You can observe the IaaS
upgrade progress on the Update Status page. The first IaaS server component can take about 30
minutes to finish. During the upgrade, you see a message similar to Upgrading server components
for node web1-vra.mycompany.com.
At the end of the upgrade process for each Manager Service node, you see a message similar to
Enabling ManagerService automatic failover mode for node mgr-vra.mycompany.com.
Beginning with vRealize Automation 7.3, the active Manager Service node changes from a manual
election to a system decision about which node becomes the failover server. The system enables this
feature during upgrade. If you have problems with this feature, see Update Fails to Upgrade the
Management Agent.
Install the Update on the vRealize Automation Appliance
and IaaS Components
You install the update on the vRealize Automation 7.1, 7.2, or 7.3.x virtual appliance to upgrade
vRealize Automationand the IaaS components to 7.4.
Do not close the management console while you install the update.
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