You can upgrade to VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions 1.1 from version 1.0.

After you upgrade VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions, the tenant administrator must upgrade the Data Solutions Operators, which run in the Kubernetes clusters within their organizations. To avoid upgrading the Data Solutions Operators at the next VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions upgrade, the tenant administrator must set the Data Solutions Operator upgrade policy to Auto upgrade to the latest version.
Note: If you maintain an internal container registry, verify that the Data Solutions Operator package is cloned to its internal container registry before you upgrade VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you have the credentials of a VMware Cloud Director System Administrator account.
  • Verify that you have downloaded the installation ISO package for VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions.
  • Verify that you have copied the VMware Cloud Director API endpoint SSL certificate file in the local directory.

Procedure

  1. Copy the ISO file to the client machine and upload it to the local file system.
  2. Mount the ISO package to a new folder.
    1. For Windows: Right click the ISO file and click Mount.
    2. For MacOS: Run the following command: hdiutil mount <FILENAME>.iso -mountroot <FILE_DIRECTORY>
    3. For Linux: Run the following command: mount -o loop <FILENAME>.iso <FILE_DIRECTORY>
  3. To upgrade VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions, navigate to the folder, which contains the extracted ISO package and run the following command:
    1. For Windows: 
      ./windows_run.exe create instance --name <EXTENSION_NAME> --encryptionkey <ENCRYPTION_KEY> --host <HOST_NAME> --username <USER_NAME> --password <PASSWORD> --certificate-file <CERTIFICATE_FILE_NAME> --accept --input-delete-previous-uiplugin-versions=false
    2. For MacOS: 
      ./darwin.run create instance --name <EXTENSION_NAME> --encryption-key <ENCRYPTION_KEY> --host <HOST_NAME> --username <USER_NAME> --password <PASSWORD> --certificate-file <CERTIFICATE_FILE_NAME> --accept --input-delete-previous-uiplugin-versions=false
      or 
       ./darwin-arm64.run create instance --name <EXTENSION_NAME> --encryption-key <ENCRYPTION_KEY> --host <HOST_NAME> --username <USER_NAME> --password <PASSWORD> --certificate-file <CERTIFICATE_FILE_NAME> --accept --input-delete-previous-uiplugin-versions=false
    3. For Linux: 
      ./linux.run create instance --name <EXTENSION_NAME> --encryption-key <ENCRYPTION_KEY> --host <HOST_NAME> --username <USER_NAME> --password <PASSWORD> --certificate-file <CERTIFICATE_FILE_NAME> --accept --input-delete-previous-uiplugin-versions=false
    The following table describes the parameters values that you must enter.
    Note: To see the full list of command parametres, run the following command: <run> create instance -h.
    Table 1. Upgrade command parameters
    Parameter Description
    EXTENSION_NAME The name of the VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions.
    ENCRYPTION_KEY The encryption key to be used for encrypting data. The encryption key can be any string of numbers.
    HOST_NAME The name of the VMware Cloud Director host.
    USER_NAME The user name of the VMware Cloud Director system administrator.
    PASSWORD The password of the VMware Cloud Director system administrator.
    CERTIFICATE_FILE_NAME The VMware Cloud Director API endpoint SSL certificate filename If you do not have the certificate file, run the following command: $ run get certificates --accept --host <HOST_NAME> -o ~/vcd_cert.pem. If you do not trust the VMware Cloud Director certificate, use the following command to trust it: $ run trust --accept --host <HOST_NAME> --username USER_NAME --password PASSWORD --certificate-file ~/vcd_cert.pem
    Example: 
    windows.run.exe get certificates --accept --host atl1-vcd-static-130-52.eng.vmware.com -o C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\vcd_cert.pem
windows.run.exe trust --accept --host atl1-vcd-static-130-52.eng.vmware.com --username admin --password vmware --certificate-file C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\vcd_cert.pem
windows.run.exe create instance --name tds1 --encryption-key 123 --host atl1-vcd-static-130-52.eng.vmware.com --username admin --password vmware --certificate-file C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\vcd_cert.pem --accept --input-delete-previous-uiplugin-versions=false