After upgrading all vCloud Availability components in both the local and in the remote sites, you perform post-upgrade steps. Enter the vCloud Director details and, optionally, re-enable the tunneling service, and re-establish the trust between the cloud sites.

Prerequisites

  • For more information on how to re-enable the vCloud Availability Tunnel instance, see Enable a vCloud Availability Tunnel Instance.
  • For more information on how to re-establish the cloud to cloud trust, see Administering vCloud Availability.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management interface of the vCloud Availability Cloud Replication Management Appliance.
    1. In a Web browser, go to https://Appliance-IP-Address/ui/admin.
    2. Select Appliance login or SSO login and enter the root or the single sign-on user credentials.
    3. Click Login.
  2. Reinstall the latest version of the vCloud Availability plug-in for vCloud Director.
    Skipping the plug-in installation in vCloud Director shows an error message The requested API version is not supported by the server.
    1. In the left pane, click Configuration.
    2. Under Service endpoints, next to vCloud Director address click Edit.
    3. Enter the vCloud Director URL as https://vCloud Director-IP-address:443/api.
    4. Enter the vCloud Director System administrator credentials and click Apply.
      Use administrator@system, where system is the vCloud Director organization name.
    5. Verify the thumbprint and accept the vCloud Director SSL certificate.
  3. If you are upgrading from vCloud Availability 3.0, re-enable the vCloud Availability Tunnel instance.
  4. If you are upgrading from vCloud Availability 3.0, re-establish the cloud to cloud trust.

Results

The upgrade in the cloud site is complete and vCloud Availability is ready for replications. For more information, see Using vCloud Availability.