Upgrade the NSX Intelligence 1.0 Using the CLI

You must use the NSX Intelligence CLI when upgrading your NSX Intelligence 1.0 installation to NSX Intelligence version 1.1 or later.

Beginning with NSX Intelligence version 1.1, you upgrade the NSX Intelligence version 1.1 or later appliance using the NSX Manager UI only. Although you can upgrade from version 1.1 of the appliance using the CLI, that CLI upgrade process does not include important pre-upgrade checks. See Upgrade the NSX Intelligence 1.1 Using the UI.

To upgrade from NSX Intelligence 1.0.x to NSX Intelligence 3.2 or later, you must first upgrade your current installation to NSX Intelligence 1.2.x using the NSX Intelligence 1.0.x CLI. You must then use the NSX Manager 3.1.x UI to upgrade to NSX Intelligence 3.2 or later.

Caution:

When using the CLI method to upgrade the NSX Intelligence appliance, do not forcefully end the SSH session or press Ctrl+C. Doing so ends the upgrade process and might leave the NSX Intelligence appliance in an unhealthy state.

Prerequisites

Download the NSX Intelligence upgrade bundle (.nub) file. See Download the NSX Intelligence Upgrade Bundle.
Verify that there is free space in the /tmp partition in the NSX Intelligence host. The free space must be at least the size of the .nub upgrade bundle file that you downloaded.
Also verify that there is at least twice the size of the .nub upgrade bundle file or 4 GB of free space in the /image partition in the NSX Intelligence host.

Procedure

Log in to your NSX Intelligence appliance using the CLI admin credentials that you had set up during the previous NSX Intelligence appliance deployment.
```
$ssh admin@<NSX Intelligence IP Address> 
```
From the NSX Intelligence command line, use the following command to copy the NSX Intelligence.nub upgrade file from where you downloaded it.
```
copy url <url_to_NSX_intelligence_upgrade_nub>
```
Following is an example, using a NSX Intelligence version 1.2 .nub file.
```
copy url http://localserver/VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870.nub
```

Verify the upgrade bundle using the following command.

Tip:

Press Tab after entering upgrade-bundle and the <upgrade_bundle_name> is auto-filled.

verify upgrade-bundle upgrade_bundle_name

Following is a sample output for updating the verify upgrade-bundle command.

Checking upgrade bundle /var/vmware/nsx/file-store/VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870.nub contents
Verifying bundle VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870.bundle with signature VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870.bundle.sig
Moving bundle to /image/VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870.bundle
Extracting bundle payload
Successfully verified upgrade bundle
Bundle manifest:
       appliance_type: 'nsx-intelligence-appliance'
       version: '1.2.0.0.0.16730870'
       os_image_path: 'files/nsx-root.squashfs'
       os_image_md5_path: 'files/nsx-root.squashfs.md5'
Current upgrade info:
{
  "info": "", 
  "body": {
    "meta": {
      "from_version": "1.0.1.0.0.14576942", 
      "old_data_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-data", 
      "new_data_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-data__bak", 
      "new_os_dev": "/dev/sda3", 
      "to_version": "1.2.0.0.0.16730870", 
      "new_config_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-config__bak", 
      "old_os_dev": "/dev/sda2", 
      "bundle_path": "/image/VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870", 
      "old_config_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-config"
    }, 
    "history": []
  }, 
  "state": 1, 
  "state_text": "CMD_SUCCESS"
}

Upgrade the NSX Intelligence 1.0.x appliance using the NSX Intelligence Playbook.

Tip:

Press Tab after entering upgrade-bundle and the <upgrade_bundle_name> is auto-filled. Press Tab after entering playbook and the <nsx_intelligence_playbook_name> is auto-populated.

start upgrade-bundle <upgrade_bundle_name> playbook <nsx_intelligence_playbook_name>

Note:

If the /data partition is large, the step to copy data from that partition might take some time to finish if the partition is large.

The system reboots as part of the upgrade process, as shown in the following example.

mynsxintel> start upgrade-bundle VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870 playbook VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870-playbook 
****************************************************************************
Node Upgrade is in progress. Please do not make any changes, until 
the upgrade operation is complete.
****************************************************************************
 
2020-09-13 13:50:26,455 - Validating playbook /var/vmware/nsx/file-store/VMware-NSX-Intelligence-appliance-1.2.0.0.0.16730870-playbook.yml
2020-09-13 13:50:26,583 - Running "shutdown_pace_svc" (step 1 of 7)
2020-09-13 13:50:51,734 - Running "install_os" (step 2 of 7)
2020-09-13 13:51:55,482 - Running "retain_pace_config" (step 3 of 7)
2020-09-13 13:52:00,529 - Running "switch_os" (step 4 of 7)
2020-09-13 13:52:17,786 - 
 
System will now reboot (step 5 of 7)
{
  "info": "", 
  "body": null, 
  "state": 1, 
  "state_text": "CMD_SUCCESS"
}
mynsxintel> 
Broadcast message from root@mynsxintel (Fri 2020-09-13 13:52:22 UTC):
 
The system is going down for reboot at Fri 2020-09-13 13:53:22 UTC!

(Optional) If you are upgrading from NSX Intelligence 1.0.1 or later, you can verify the upgrade's progress using the following command.
```
get upgrade progress-status
```
(Optional) After the reboot process is finished, log in to the NSX Intelligence appliance console as admin and run the following command to verify the appliance upgrade status.
```
get upgrade progress-status | json
```
(Optional) From the NSX Intelligence appliance console, verify that the NSX Intelligence appliance version is correct and matches the version of the upgrade bundle you downloaded from the VMware download portal.
```
get version
```
Following is a sample output based on the examples used in earlier steps.
```
mynsxintel> get version
VMware NSX Intelligence, Version 1.2.0.0.0.16730870
```