Upgrade, Backup and Restore

You can update your existing VMware Aria Operations deployments to a newly released version.

When you perform a software update, you need to make sure you use the correct PAK file for your cluster. A good practice is to take a snapshot of the cluster before you update the software, but you must remember to delete the snapshot once the update is complete.

Note: During the upgrade process, any user modifications made to the default content, including alert definitions, symptoms, recommendations, policy definitions, views, dashboards, widgets, and reports, will be overwritten. To preserve such customizations and facilitate easy restoration after the upgrade, you must clone, export or create a backup of your content.

Starting with version 8.6 of VMware Aria Operations, internal certificates are renewed when you upgrade a cluster, except when the cloud proxy version 8.4, 8.5, or earlier is present. Automatic root-CA certificate renewal will be available when cloud proxy is version 8.6 and is upgraded to higher versions. After each product upgrade, the cluster will have a new root-CA certificate with a 5-year validity period.

Note: Automatic certificate renewal does not affect custom certificates.