Upgrade tasks overview

To upgrade, you need to meet the requirements or perform the tasks that are listed in Upgrade installation requirements and tasks.

Table 1. Upgrade installation requirements and tasks

Before you upgrade
Review the release notes for important issues.	VMware Smart Assurance Release Note
Determine if the products are supported for your platform.	VMware Smart Assurance Support Matrix
Determine if your system meets the hardware requirements.	VMware Smart Assurance Support Matrix
Upgrade installation
Upgrade the products in the following order: Top-most SAM server An Aggregation SAM server if it is a hierarchical SAM deployment. IP Manager. Any order: Server Manager, MPLS Manager, and Network Protocol Manager.	For VMware Smart Assurance products: “Performing an Upgrade” on page 51
After you install
Evaluate your custom code and review the tools for restoring user customization.	“Custom file migration use cases” on page 91
If your product is part of a deployment that requires the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, a U.S. government computer security standard governing cryptographic modules, perform the procedure to upgrade products in FIPS mode.	“Upgrading 9.5.1 products in FIPS mode” on page 60
If you installed the products as services, start them for the first time.	“Starting services on UNIX” on page 105 “Start programs” on page 106
Verify the current state of the products and the Broker.	“Verify the product status” on page 110
(Optional) After performing an upgrade and modifying your configuration files on one installation, you can use the deployment utility to create a deployment package of your configuration changes and deploy the package on other installations. After deploying the package on other installations, you do not have to run the migrate utility to merge your customizations.	“Deployment utility overview” on page 97