To upgrade successfully to VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.0, in all sites take snapshots of all VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances and upgrade each appliance according to a specific order.

Upgrade the VMware Cloud Director Availability sites in the following order:
  1. In the local cloud site, upgrade all the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances.
  2. In remote cloud sites, upgrade all the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances.
  3. Upgrade all the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance nodes.
In a VMware Cloud Director Availability cloud site, upgrade all the appliances according to the following procedure:

Prerequisites

Important:
  • Verify that before starting the upgrade, current snapshots of all the appliances exist in the site.
  • Verify that before starting the upgrade, 60% free disk space, or more exists on all the appliances in the site.
  • Verify that the sites are prepared for replication interruptions and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) violations.

Procedure

  1. Power off the Cloud Tunnel Appliance and all Cloud Replicator Appliance nodes in the local cloud site.
  2. Upgrade the Cloud Replication Management Appliance and after a successful upgrade, power off the appliance.
  3. Power on a Cloud Replicator Appliance node.
    1. Upgrade the Cloud Replicator Appliance node.
    2. After a successful upgrade, power off the upgraded Cloud Replicator Appliance node.
    3. Repeat this step for all the remaining Cloud Replicator Appliance nodes in the local cloud site.
  4. Power on the Cloud Tunnel Appliance.
    1. Upgrade the Cloud Tunnel Appliance.
    2. After a successful upgrade, power on the upgraded Cloud Replication Management Appliance and all the upgraded Cloud Replicator Appliance nodes.
      All the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances in the local cloud site are upgraded and powered on.

Results

The VMware Cloud Director Availability cloud site is upgraded.

What to do next

After upgrading the local cloud site, the remote cloud sites, and upgrading the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance nodes, you can start using the new VMware Cloud Director Availability version.