As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 1st step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Interoperability check with Database, vCenter,ESXi and NSX. Need root password for the vCD cell OS. Take Backup of the MS SQL DB Download and copy the upgrade binary to all the vCD cells in … Read more
As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 2nd step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Ensure the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.7 in completed successfully and cells are rebooted. Create a New NFS mount point to be used by the new Deployment If you want the new vCloud Director … Read more
As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 3rd and final step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Before starting upgrade, ensure that all nodes in database high availability configuration are in a good state. If your deployment has more than 1 application cells and configured with DB HA, then … Read more
While planning this upgrade, i learned lot of important factors which i am trying to share through this post. Upgrade Workflow: My Target is to upgrade from Red hat based vCD 9.0 using external MS SQL DB to Appliance based vCD 10.0 using Embedded vPostgreSQL DB for which i need to explore the upgrade workflow. … Read more
Continuing the last post, now we will be converging vCenter Server with External PSC to vCenter server with Embedded PSC using vSphere Client.We can still use the scripted procedure which was available in vSphere 6.7 U1 but for the ease of demonstration i am using vSphere 6.7 U2 with vSphere client (GUI). Important Notes and … Read more
In the series of VMware Component upgrade, Next component we are going to reflect on is “vCenter Server 6.5 (vCSA) with External Platform Service Controller (PSC)”. vCenter 6.7 onward, the topology of External PSC is depreciated. Hence we will work on convergence in next post. Final Target topology is depicted below: Current Topology –> Target … Read more