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You can upgrade your Application Services installation to a new release using a standard upgrade
process.
You can upgrade from the previous Application Services release to the current release. To upgrade from
previous versions, for example from Application Director 6.0 or 6.0.1 to Application Services 6.2, follow
the upgrade path from 6.0 to 6.0.1 to 6.1 to 6.2 in that order. For more information, see previous release
documentation.
Note You can migrate vCloud Application Director 6.0.1 to Application Services 6.1. You can then
upgrade your Application Services installation to a next release. For details about migrating from
Application Director 6.0.1 to Application Services 6.1, see the 6.1 version of Using Application Services
documentation.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Upgrade Application Services
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Roll Back an Application Services Upgrade
Upgrade Application Services
You can download and run the Application Services upgrade installation program to upgrade your
Application Services installation.
Root permission is required to download and run the Application Services upgrade installation program.
Note You must upgrade to vRealize Automation 6.2.x before you upgrade Application Services.
During upgrade, install and uninstall operations stop the Application Services server.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the currently installed version of Application Services is 6.1.x.
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Verify that there are no operations in progress or running on the Application Services server.
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Verify that you are logged in on the Application Services server with root permission.
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Verify that you have upgraded to vRealize Automation 6.2.x.
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