Upgrading on-premises and provider site

Follow the upgrade path and choose an upgrade method for the currently installed VMware Cloud Director Availability version. Follow the prerequisites and take both a back up and a snapshot, then choose a source repository for the upgrade files and perform the upgrade.

Upgrade Paths

For on-premises site upgrade to the latest version, use the following upgrade methods, according to the currently installed version.

Current Version	Next Version	Upgrade Method
4.5.x or 4.6.x	4.7.x	Important: Before starting the upgrade: Verify that you take snapshots of all appliances while powered off. Back up each appliance in the site. For more information, see Back up the appliance. You can upgrade by using the appliance management interface, see the updated Management interface upgrading procedures. Alternatively, you can upgrade by using the command-line interface, see the updated Command-line upgrading procedures.
4.4.x or 4.5.x	4.6.x
4.3.x or 4.4.x	4.5.x
4.2.x or 4.3.x	4.4.x
4.0.x or 4.1.x	4.2.1
3.0.x or 3.5.x	4.0	You can upgrade by using the appliance management interface, see the legacy Management Interface Upgrading procedures. Alternatively, you can upgrade by using the command-line interface, see the legacy Command-Line Upgrading procedures.
3.0	4.0	You must upgrade only by using the command-line interface, see the legacy Command-Line Upgrading On-Premises procedures.

Note:

Interoperability with paired peer sites running earlier VMware Cloud Director Availability versions:

For information about interoperability between paired sites that run mismatching versions of VMware Cloud Director Availability, see Paired sites versions interoperability.

• For the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance, once you back it up and take a snapshot, before starting the upgrade:
  • Ensure that you have not manually enabled the Photon repository of the appliance.

    To verify for enabled repositories, open an SSH connection to the appliance, log in by using the root user credentials and run the following command:

    yum -v repolist all | grep enabled

    When no repository is active, the command returns no result and you can proceed with the upgrade.
  • Ensure that you have not installed any packages or third-party software or made any manual modifications of yum configuration files.
• To complete the upgrade sequence, see Post-upgrade configuration.

Upgrade Repository

To upgrade VMware Cloud Director Availability, you can configure the appliance to download the upgrade files from one of the following source repositories.

Repository	Description
An ISO image	Use an upgrade ISO file mounted in the virtual appliance CD-ROM drive for environments without an external Internet access.
A specified repository	To upgrade multiple appliances or after deploying the appliances in different datastores, specify a repository as a content source: You can specify a local repository where you can upload the upgrade files, for environments where the network restricts the online Internet access to the appliances. Alternatively, with available Internet access, specify https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/vcav/4.7/ as an online upgrade repository.