Installation guide

Upgrading Update Manager 5

You can upgrade Update Manager 1.0 Update 6 and Update Manager 4.x to Update Manager 5.0.

You can install Update Manager 5.0 only on a 64-bit operating system. If you are running an earlier version of

Update Manager on a 32-bit platform, you must either back up and restore your database manually, or use the

data migration tool to back up the existing data on the 32-bit machine, and then restore your data on the 64-

bit machine on which you are installing Update Manager 5.0.

When you upgrade Update Manager, you cannot change the installation path and patch download location.

To change these parameters, you must install a new version of Update Manager rather than upgrade.

Previous versions of Update Manager use a 512-bit key and self-signed certificate and these are not replaced

during upgrade. If you require a more secure 2048-bit key, you can either perform a fresh installation of Update

Manager 5.0, or use the Update Manager Utility to replace the existing certificate.

Scheduled tasks for virtual machine patch scan and remediation are not removed during the upgrade. After

the upgrade, you can edit and remove scheduled scan tasks that exist from previous releases. You can remove

existing scheduled remediation tasks but you cannot edit them.

Virtual machine patch baselines are removed during the upgrade. Existing scheduled tasks that contain them

run normally and ignore only the scanning and remediation operations that use virtual machine patch

baselines.

You must upgrade the Update Manager database during the Update Manager upgrade. You can select whether

to keep your existing data in the database or to replace it during the upgrade.

This chapter includes the following topics:

“Upgrade the Update Manager Server,” on page 69

“Upgrade the Update Manager Client Plug-In,” on page 71

Upgrade the Update Manager Server

To upgrade an instance of Update Manager that is installed on a 64-bit machine, you must first upgrade

vCenter Server to a compatible version.

The Update Manager 5.0 release allows upgrades from Update Manager 1.0 Update 6 and Update Manager

4.x.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you grant the database user the required set of privileges. See the Preparing the Update Manager

Database chapter in Installing and Administering VMware vSphere Update Manager.

Stop the Update Manager service and back up the Update Manager database. The installer upgrades the

database schema, making the database irreversibly incompatible with previous Update Manager versions.

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