In the current release, CSM can only be upgraded using NSX CLI.

Prerequisites

  • See Upgrading NSX Cloud Components to find the correct order to follow for upgrading CSM.
  • You must have extracted the file VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.nub from the NSX Cloud main upgrade bundle (MUB) and hosted on an FTP server accessible from CSM.

Procedure

  1. Log in to NSX CLI with CSM admin credentials: 
    $ssh <csm-admin>@<NSX-CSM-IP>
    and run the following NSX CLI command: 
    nsxcsm> copy url scp://<username>@<ftp-server-ip>/<path-to-file>/VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.nub
  2. Extract and verify the file VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.nub: 
    nsxcsm> verify upgrade-bundle VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>
    Example output: 
    Checking upgrade bundle /var/vmware/nsx/file-store/VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.nub contents
Verifying bundle VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.bundle with signature VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.bundle.sig
Moving bundle to /image/VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>.bundle
Extracting bundle payload
Successfully verified upgrade bundle
Bundle manifest:
    appliance_type: 'nsx-unified-appliance'
    version: '<upgrade version>'
    os_image_path: 'files/nsx-root.fsa'
    os_image_md5_path: 'files/nsx-root.fsa.md5'
Current upgrade info:
{
  "info": "",
  "body": {
    "meta": {
      "from_version": "<current version>",
      "old_config_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-config",
      "to_version": "<post-upgrade version>",
      "new_config_dev": "/dev/mapper/nsx-config__bak",
      "old_os_dev": "/dev/xvda2",
      "bundle_path": "/image/VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version>",
      "new_os_dev": "/dev/xvda3"
    },
    "history": []
  },
  "state": 1,
  "state_text": "CMD_SUCCESS"
}
  3. Start the upgrade: 
    nsxcsm> start upgrade-bundle VMware-NSX-unified-appliance-<version> playbook VMware-NSX-cloud-service-manager-<version>-playbook
    Example output: 
    Validating playbook /var/vmware/nsx/file-store/VMware-NSX-cloud-service-manager-<version>-playbook.yml
Running "shutdown_csm_svc" (step 1 of 6)
Running "install_os" (step 2 of 6)
Running "migrate_csm_config" (step 3 of 6)
 
System will now reboot (step 4 of 6)
After the system reboots, use "resume" to start the next step, "start_csm_svc".
{
  "info": "",
  "body": null,
  "state": 1,
  "state_text": "CMD_SUCCESS"
}
Autoimport-nsx-cloud-service-manager-thin>
Broadcast message from root@Autoimport-nsx-cloud-service-manager-thin (Fri 2017-08-25 21:11:36 UTC):
 
The system is going down for reboot at Fri 2017-08-25 21:12:36 UTC!
  4. Wait for the upgrade to complete. CSM reboots during upgrade, and the upgrade is finalized when the CSM UI restarts after rebooting.
  5. Verify the version of CSM to confirm that it has upgraded: 
    nsxcsm> get version

Results

The CSM appliance is upgraded and the PCGs are automatically resized to 191 GB.

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