In-place Upgrade of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager

You can install VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.3 as an in-place upgrade on top of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.2.x.

To perform an in-place upgrade of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager by using an upgrade script, you must first download the upgrade script file.

Before upgrading VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager, you can back up the appliance. To create a back up of the appliance, you must back up all files and subfolders in the following directories.

• /opt/vmware/cplcm/.data/
• /opt/vmware/cplcm/vault/
• /opt/vmware/cplcm/config/
• All files, including the hidden ones, in the /home/vcplcm/.vcplcm/ directory.

To back up the certificates, create a back up for all files in the /opt/vmware/cplcm/security/certs/ directory.

Performing an In-Place Upgrade of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager by Using an ISO file

Prerequisites

• From the Drivers & Tools section on VMware Customer Connect, download the vcplcm130-upgrade-appliance.sh upgrade file.
• Save the vcplcm130-upgrade-appliance.sh upgrade file to the /tmp/ folder on the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager appliance.

Procedure

1. From https://customerconnect.vmware.com, download the VMware-Cloud-Provider-Lifecycle-Manager-1.3.0-123456_Upgrade.iso ISO file.
2. Log in to the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager as root.
3. Copy the VMware-Cloud-Provider-Lifecycle-Manager-1.3.0-123456_Upgrade.iso ISO file to the VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager appliance.
4. Run the script.

   /bin/bash /tmp/vcplcm-upgrade-appliance.sh --password='vcplcm-user-pw' --iso_path=/tmp/VMware-Cloud-Provider-Lifecycle-Manager-1.3.0-123456_Upgrade.iso

   When upgrading from VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.2 to version 1.3, if you do not specify the vcplcm user account password as a parameter, you are prompted to provide it.