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 for VNF Workloads
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 Live Site Recovery |
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 |
