Upgrade CentOS Host

If your CentOS host is unsupported, manually upgrade your CentOS host to the supported version.

Prerequisites

Verify that the CentOS host is supported. See Supported Hypervisor Upgrade Path.

CentOS requires the following dependencies for the LCP package and host components to work properly.

PyYAML, c-ares, libev, libunwind, libyaml, python-beaker, python-gevent, python-greenlet, python-mako, python-markupsafe, python-netaddr, python-paste, python-tempita

Procedure

1. Follow the instructions available on the CentOS web site to upgrade your host. Reboot the CentOS host after the upgrade process has completed.
2. Download the NSX kernel module for CentOS xx.x.
3. Install the NSX kernel module.

   tar - xvf <path_to_kernel_module_file> 
   cd <folder_extracted_from_previous_step>
   sudo yum install *.rpm 
   rpm -qa | grep nsx