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Table Of Contents
- Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 to 7.2
- Contents
- Updated Information
- vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 Upgrade Prerequisites and Process
- Preparing to Upgrade vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1
- Updating the vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 Appliance
- Upgrading the IaaS Server Components After Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 to 7.2
- Updating vRealize Orchestrator After Upgrading from vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 to 7.2
- Add Users or Groups to an Active Directory Connection
- Enable Your Load Balancers
- Post-Upgrade Tasks for Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1
- Troubleshooting the vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 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 But Are Not Available to Request
- IaaS Windows Services Fail to Stop
- PostgreSQL External Database Merge Is Unsuccessful
- Delete Orphaned Nodes on vRealize Automation
- Join Cluster Command Appears to Fail After Upgrading a High-Availability Environment
- Upgrade Is Unsuccessful if Root Partition Does Not Provide Sufficient Free Space
- Management Agent Upgrade is Unsuccessful
- Upgrade Fails to Upgrade the Management Agent or Certificate Not Installed on a IaaS Node
- Backup Copies of .xml Files Cause the System to Time Out
- Exclude Management Agents from Upgrade
- Unable to Create New Directory in vRealize Automation
- Index
c Click Refresh to monitor the service startup progress.
You should see a minimum of 35 services.
d Verify that each service, except iaas-service, is listed as REGISTERED.
The release-management service does not start without a vRealize Code Stream license key.
13 Read the note about participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program and select to join
or not join the program.
For information about the program, click the Telemetry tab in the appliance management console.
For more information about seing parameters for data collection and joining or leaving the Customer
Experience Improvement Program, see System Administration.
What to do next
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If you have one or more secondary vRealize Automation appliances, see “Install the Update on
Secondary vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 Appliances,” on page 20.
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If you do not have one or more secondary vRealize Automation appliances, see Chapter 4, “Upgrading
the IaaS Server Components After Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 to 7.2,” on page 23.
Install the Update on Secondary vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1
Appliances
For a high availability environment, the primary virtual appliance is the node that runs embedded
PostgreSQL in the Master mode. The other nodes in the environment run the embedded PostgreSQL
database in Replica mode. During upgrade, the replica virtual appliance does not require database changes.
Do not close the management console while you install the update.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have downloaded the virtual appliance updates. See “Downloading vRealize Automation
Appliance Updates,” on page 14.
Procedure
1 Open the vRealize Automation appliance management console for the upgrade.
a Go to the management console for your virtual appliance by using its fully qualied domain name,
hps://va-hostname.domain.name:5480.
b Log in with the user name root and the password you specied when the appliance was deployed.
c Click the Update tab.
2 Click .
3 Select to download the updates from a VMware repository or CDROM in the Update Repository
section.
4 Click Status.
5 Click Check Updates to verify that an update is accessible.
6 Click Install Updates.
7 Click OK.
A message stating that the update is in progress appears.
Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 to 7.2
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