Upgrading VMware Aria products involves upgrading Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Operations, and Aria Automation Orchestrator.

Prerequisites

  • Take a VM snapshot of the Aria Operations for Logs cluster nodes. For instructions, see Creating a Snapshot of a VM.

  • Take a VM snapshot of the Aria Operations nodes. For instructions, see Creating a Snapshot of a VM.

  • Take a VM snapshot of the Aria Automation Orchestrator deployment. For instructions, see Creating a Snapshot of a VM.

    Caution:

    Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.x does not support memory snapshots. Before taking the snapshot of the Aria Automation Orchestrator deployment, ensure that the Snapshot the virtual machine's memory option is deactivated.

Procedure

  1. Upgrade Aria Operations for Logs to 8.16.
    Note:

    • You must upgrade agents in the required VMs to capture data appropriately.

    • Depending on the versions you upgrade from, follow these sequence:

      • 8.6.2 > 8.8.2 > 8.10.2 > 8.12 > 8.14 > 8.16

  2. Upgrade Aria Operations to 8.18. For instructions, see the Aria Operations 8.18 Release Notes.
    Note:

    Depending on the versions you upgrade from, follow these sequence:

    • 8.6.2 > 8.12 > 8.18

    Caution:

    The NTP service does not start automatically following the Aria Operations upgrade, failing to restore the Aria Operations cluster to online. As a workaround, follow the instructions in KB93793 after the upgrade.

    For more information, see VMware Aria Operations Upgrade Prerequisites and VMware Aria Operations Software Updates.

  3. Upgrade Aria Automation Orchestrator to 8.16.1. For instructions, see the Aria Automation Orchestrator Upgrade Guide.
    Note:

    Depending on the versions you upgrade from, follow these sequence:

    • 8.6.2 > 8.10.2 > 8.12.1 > 8.16.1