The Telco Cloud Platform components have interdependencies. You must follow a specific upgrade sequence to avoid interoperability issues and for a minimal impact on running workloads.

Upgrade Sequence for CNF Workloads

The following figure illustrates the sequence in which you upgrade the components of Telco Cloud Platform:


Upgrade Sequence of Telco Cloud Platform Components

Upgrade Sequence for VNF Workloads

The following table lists the sequence in which you upgrade the components of Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition.

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

NSX Edge -> host VIBs -> Manager Upgrade

6

6

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

6

VMware vCenter™ Server/VMware vSphere Update Manager

7

11

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 Automation Orchestrator

13

VMware Aria for Logs

13

VMware Aria Operations

13

VMware Avi Load Balancer

14