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Download Virtual Appliance Updates for Use with a CD-ROM Drive
You can update your virtual appliance from an ISO le that the appliance reads from the virtual CD-ROM
drive.
Prerequisites
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“Back Up Your Environment,” on page 16.
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All CD-ROM drives you use in your upgrade must be enabled before you update a vRealize
Automation appliance. See the vSphere documentation center for information about adding a CD-ROM
drive to a virtual machine in the vSphere client.
Procedure
1 Download the update ISO le from the vmware.com Web site.
2 Locate the downloaded le on your system to verify that the le size is the same as the le on
vmware.com Web site.
3 Ensure that your virtual appliance is powered on.
4 Connect the CD-ROM drive for the virtual appliance you are updating to the ISO le you downloaded.
5 Go to the management console for your virtual appliance by using its fully qualied domain name,
hps://va-hostname.domain.name:5480.
6 Log in with the user name root and the password you specied when the appliance was deployed.
7 Click the Update tab.
8 Click .
9 Under Update Repository, select Use CDROM Updates.
10 Click Save .
Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance
After you complete the upgrade prerequisites and download the virtual appliance update, you install
updates and recongure some seings for the primary vRealize Automation appliance node.
After you upgrade the primary vRealize Automation appliance node, you upgrade the other nodes in your
environment in the following order:
1 Each secondary vRealize Automation appliance
2 The IaaS Website with the Microsoft SQL Server
3 IaaS Manager Service
4 IaaS DEM
5 IaaS agent
6 vRealize Orchestrator node
Install the Update on the vRealize Automation Appliance
You install the update on the VMware vRealize ™ Automation appliance and congure appliance seings.
Details regarding the data collected through CEIP and the purposes for which it is used by VMware are set
forth at the Trust & Assurance Center at hp://www.vmware.com/trustvmware/ceip.html.
Do not close the management console while you install the update.
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