Upgrade the vCloud Director Appliance 9.7 to vCloud Director Appliance 10.0

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 a properly configured load balancer in front of the vCloud Director HTTP endpoints should help you to minimize the downtime.
Take a snapshot of the primary vCloud Director Appliance before starting upgrade.
Download and copy the upgrade binary to all the vCD appliance in your environment.
Following is the upgrade sequence:
- Primary appliance needs to be upgraded first
- Upgrade rest of Application cell and DB Cells
- Backup vCD appliance embedded DB
- Run the vCloud Director database upgrade utility.
- Reboot each vCloud Director appliance.

Environment update:
Lab has 1 vCD appliance with embedded database.
vCD Cell1: HRCVCD97

Procedure of upgrade:

Step 1: Login to the cells using ssh and create a local-update-package directory in which file can be saved and extracted.

Step 2: Once the file is extracted, set the local-update-package directory as the update repository.

Step 3: Validate the configuration and upon success shutdown the vCD service, so that the upgrade can be performed.

Step 4: Execute the upgrade.

Step 5: Repeat Step 1 to 4 on all the appliance in your environment.
Note: Don’t reboot any appliance before the DB upgrade and schema upgrade is performed.

Step 6: From Primary cell we are going to take backup of vCloud Director appliance embedded database.

Step 7: From any appliance, run the vCloud Director database upgrade utility and upon completion reboot the appliance.

Step 8: Reboot rest of vCD appliances.

Confirmation:

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Source: VMware Documentation

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