Upgrade Aria Products

Upgrading VMware Aria products involves upgrading Aria Operations for Logs and Aria Operations.

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.

Procedure

1. Upgrade Aria Operations for Logs to 8.18.
   Note:

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

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

     • 8.10.2 > 8.12 > 8.14 > 8.16 > 8.18

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:

   • 8.10.2 > 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.