About this task

Note:

Take a snapshot of the VLA before proceeding with the upgrade.

Once you have taken the snapshot of the VLA, execute the following steps to do the VLA upgrade:

Prerequisites

You are running a stable VLA system (version 1.4.1) and have decide to upgrade it to version 1.5.0

Procedure

  1. SSH to VLA system using appropriate credentials and verify the current version of the VLA using the vla_user command as depicted in the following figure:
    Figure 1. SSH to VLA




  2. Change directory to/system2 on the VLA.
  3. Copy the VLA ISO file that you will use to upgrade your existing VLA from http://www.vmware.com/products/adapter-sap-lvm.html into the /system2 directory.
    Note:

    Use any tool of your choice like wget, WinSCP, scp etc.

  4. Execute the sys_software_update script to initiate the upgrade process. Specify the ISO file that you copied into the /system2 directory that will be used for upgrade of the VLA as depicted in the following figure:
    Figure 2. VLA Upgrade - 1




    Figure 3. VLA Upgrade -2




    Figure 4. VLA Upgrade-3




  5. Execute the reboot command.
    Note:

    Connection to the host will get closed due to the reboot. Once the VLA is up, try to SSH to it using the credentials you used previously in this section in step 1.

    Figure 5. Verify the Upgrade and Reboot the VLA




  6. Update the orchestrator workflows following the reboot of the VLA as follows: 
    vla_vco_package_install -i

Results

Upon successfully completing the previous steps, you should have upgraded the VLA from version 1.4.1 to version 1.5.0