The following procedures provide information about upgrading to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x.

You can perform a sequential or skip-level upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x from VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2.1 or later. If your environment is at a version earlier than 4.2.1, you must upgrade the management domain and all VI workload domains to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2.1 and then upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x.

The first step is to download the bundles for each VMware Cloud Foundation component that requires an upgrade. After all of the bundles are available in SDDC Manager, upgrade the management domain and then your VI workload domains.

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x supports VMware Cloud Foundation+. To add your on-premises deployment to a VMware Cloud Foundation+ subscription, you must upgrade at least the management domain to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 and the vCenter Server instances for the VI workload domains to vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3h. See the VMware Cloud Foundation+ Guide for more information.