The components of Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition have interdependencies. When upgrading the components, you must follow a particular upgrade sequence for minimal impact to running workloads and to avoid interoperability issues.

Note:

This upgrade sequence applies to both 2-Pod and 3-Pod designs.

The following table lists the sequence in which you upgrade the components of Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition 2.2 to Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition 2.7:

Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition Components

Management Pod

Resource and Edge Pod

Disaster Recovery Pod

VMware Cloud Director® Cells and Database

1

VMware vSphere® Replication™

2

4

VMware Site Recovery Manager™

3

5

VMware vCenter™ Server/VMware vSphere Update Manager

6

11

7

NSX Edge* -> host VIBs -> Manager Upgrade

* In the management pod, the NSX edge upgrade is required for LB.

8

8

VMware ESXi™ & VMware vSAN™

10

Note: All the ESXi Servers from the cluster will be rebooted after this upgrade.

12

Note: All the ESXi Servers from the cluster will be rebooted after this upgrade.

9

Note: All the ESXi Servers from the cluster will be rebooted after this upgrade.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

13

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator

13

VMware Aria Operations for Logs

13

VMware Aria Operations

13