You can use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to upgrade vRealize Suite product installations.
When a deployment request is saved in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.1 and the same request is resumed after upgrading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to 1.2, vRealize Automation 7.3 products details page items does not load. For more information, see KB article 56369. When a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager upgrade is triggered, the screen stays at Maintenance mode and Home page never comes up. After an upgrade, there can be some errors in the content from the marketplace. The content might contain few request that prevents the service to start. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI displays a maintenance mode message and the Home page is not displayed. In this scenario, restart the xenon server. If the issue still persists, delete the error request and restart xenon. To upgrade to vRealize Automation 8.x, see Upgrade vRealize Automation 8.x with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
Prerequisites
Verify that the vRealize Suite product to upgrade is part of a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager private cloud environment, and take a snapshot of the product that you can revert to in the event that something goes wrong with the upgrade. See Creating and Managing a Product Snapshot.
If you are upgrading vRealize Automation 7.x, ensure that the following additional prerequisites are met:
- The vRealize Automation management agent and all IaaS Windows nodes are running.
- The second member in the vRealize Automation load balancer is disabled.
- vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager should be upgraded to latest.
- VMware Identity Manager should be upgraded to 3.3.2 or later.
- The vRealize Automation services should be running.
Procedure
What to do next
You can view the progress of the upgrade on the Requests tab.