7.1

Join Cluster Command Appears to Fail After Upgrading a High-Availability
Environment
After you click Join Cluster in the management console on a secondary cluster node, the progress indicator
disappears.
Problem
When you use the vRealize Automation appliance management console after upgrade to join a secondary
cluster node to the primary node, the progress indicator disappears and no error or success message
appears. This behavior is an intermient problem.
Cause
The progress indicator disappears because some browsers stop waiting for a response from the server. This
behavior does not stop the join cluster process. You can conrm that the join cluster process is successful by
viewing the log le at /var/log/vmware/vcac/vcac-config.log.
Upgrade Is Unsuccessful if Root Partition Does Not Provide Sufficient Free
Space
If sucient free space is unavailable on the root partition of the vRealize Automation appliance host,
upgrade cannot proceed.
Solution
This procedure increases the free space on the Disk 1 root partition of the vRealize Automation appliance
host. In a distributed deployment, perform this procedure to increase the free space on each replica node
sequentially, and then increase the free space on the master node.
N When you perform this procedure, you might see these warning messages:
n
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16:
Device or resource busy. The kernel still uses the old table. The
new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run
partprobe(8) or kpartx(8) Syncing disks.
n
Error: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been unable to inform the
kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s)
will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
Ignore the message You should reboot now before making further changes. If you reboot your system
before step 10, you corrupt the upgrade process.
Procedure
1 Power on the VMware vRealize ™ Automation appliance host virtual machine and log in as with a
secure shell connection as the root user.
2 Run the following commands to stop services.
a service vcac-server stop
b service vco-server stop
c service vpostgres stop
3 Run the following command to unmount the swap partition.
swapoff -a
Upgrading from vRealize Automation 6.2 to 7.1
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