You can migrate from an earlier version of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to the current VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle version.

You cannot directly migrate or upgrade a VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.x environment to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12. To upgrade to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle version 8.12, first migrate your 2.x environment to VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8.x to 8.10 and then upgrade to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12.

The VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle migration requires inputs, such as legacy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle hostname, user name, password, and SSH password.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that latest version of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is installed.
  • Verify that the legacy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle has SSH enabled for the root user.
  • Some legacy versions of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager cannot be directly upgraded to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. For information about upgrading legacy versions of the product, refer to the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle release notes.

Procedure

  1. From the Easy Installer wizard, click Migrate.
  2. Enter the vCenter details where the new VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is installed.
  3. Select the datacenter in the vCenter Server, Compute Resource, and Storage settings.
  4. Enter the network configuration details.
  5. In the Password configuration, enter the password for the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle root and admin password.
  6. If you want to deploy Workspace ONE Access, then enter the password for admin, sshuser, and root credential.
  7. Enter the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle VMname, Hostname, and the IP details.
  8. Enter the legacy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Hostname, Username, and Password.
  9. Select New Identity Manager Installation or Import Existing Identity Manager.
    If you have selected New Identity Manager Installation, then it is deployed in the same vCenter mentioned in step 2. If you selected Import Existing Identity Manager, verify that the identity manager is already registered in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle legacy VM and identity manager SSH is enabled for the root user.
  10. Click Submit.
  11. When the migration is successful, click the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle URL or the migration request to view the progress by logging in with admin@local with the password given in step 5.
  12. All the environments with data centers, vCenter instances, settings (such as NTP, DNS, and so on), content endpoints that are managed by VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle are migrated and the environments are imported to the latest version.

Results

As part of migration, create a global environment based on installation or import when you import legacy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle VMware Workspace ONE Access to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. If there is a failure in the global environment, it can be due to the missing SSH user password in the legacy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. Enter the SSH password details by selecting the correct password on retry and submit the changes to create a global environment. After a global environment is created, you can resume the migration operation.

With migration you can create environments, settings, certificate and so on. You can check the status of migration on the Request status.
Note: If you import an existing VMware Workspace ONE Access and if the admin password is different from the SSH user for the VMware Workspace ONE Access, then the global environment request fails. In this case, add the SSH password in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle locker manually and retry the request with this password.