You can upgrade the vCloud Director appliance from version 9.7 to version 10.0 or upgrade vCloud Director 10.0 to a patch release.
During the upgrade of the vCloud Director appliance deployment, the vCloud Director service stops working and some downtime can be expected. The downtime depends on the time you need to upgrade each vCloud Director appliance and to run the vCloud Director database upgrade script. The number of working cells in the vCloud Director server group reduces until you stop the vCloud Director service on the last vCloud Director appliance. A properly configured load balancer in front of the vCloud Director HTTP endpoints should stop routing traffic to the cells that are stopped.
After you apply the upgrade to every vCloud Director appliance and the database upgrade is complete, you must reboot each vCloud Director appliance.
Prerequisites
- Log in to the vCenter Server instance on which resides the primary vCloud Director appliance of your database high availability cluster.
- Navigate to the primary vCloud Director appliance, right-click it, and click .
- Right-click the appliance and click OK. . Enter a name and, optionally, a description for the snapshot, and click
- Right-click the vCloud Director appliance and click .
- Verify that all nodes in your database high availability configuration are in a good state. See Check the Status of a Database High Availability Cluster.
Procedure
What to do next
- If the upgrade is successful, you can delete the snapshot of the vCloud Director appliance.
- If the upgrade is not successful, you can roll back the vCloud Director appliance to the snapshot that you took before the upgrade. See Roll Back a vCloud Director Appliance When an Upgrade Fails.