Using the steps listed in this section, you can upgrade VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance from 2.3.0 or 2.3.1 to 2.4 using VMware Telco Cloud Automation.

Flowchart for Upgrade

The flowchart for upgrade is as an overview on how to upgrade VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance. For more information, refer Deployment Flowchart.

Upgrade Procedure

Note: Before you start the upgrade process, make a note of all the input parameters which were specified as part of base VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance deployment. This is required during the upgrade process.
The previous input values can be found in VMware Telco Cloud Automation:
  • For VMware Telco Cloud Automation 2.2, navigate to VMware Telco Cloud Automation UI > Inventory > Network Function > VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Network Function Instance > Parameter.
At a high level, the upgrade of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance using VMware Telco Cloud Automation involves the following steps:
  1. Ensure that you perform the prerequisites mentioned in Prerequisites for Upgrading VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance section.
  2. Ensure that docker version 23.0 or later is installed in the deployment host.

    OR

  3. Ensure that podman-docker version 4.6.1 or later is installed in the deployment host.
    Note: If you want to use podman-docker, execute the following command to remove the underlying docker-ce packages and install podman-docker. 
    yum install -y podman-docker --allowerasing
  4. Download and extract the installer package.
  5. Execute the preUpgrade.sh script located in $TCSA_WORK_SPACE/.
  6. Onboard Container Network Functions.
  7. Upgrade Container Network Functions.