You can upgrade your current vRealize Automation environment to the latest version.

In-place Upgrade and Side-by-Side Upgrade

Depending on your current vRealize Automation environment, you can upgrade to the latest version by performing an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side upgrade. Review the information on this page to determine the best upgrade method for your environment.

An in-place upgrade is a multi-step process. You perform procedures in a particular order to update the various components in your current environment. You must upgrade all product components to the same version. You can only perform an in-place upgrade for these paths.
  • vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.1.x to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.2.x to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.3.x to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.4.x to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.5.x to 7.6
A side-by-side upgrade migrates the data in your current vRealize Automation environment to a target environment deployed with the latest version of vRealize Automation. You can perform a side-by-side upgrade for these paths.
  • vRealize Automation 6.2.0 through 6.2.5 to 7.6
  • vRealize Automation 7.0 and 7.0.1 to 7.5
  • vRealize Automation 7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x, 7.5.x to 7.6

Migration does not change your current environment. If your current environment is integrated with vCloud Director, vCloud Air, or has physical endpoints, you must use migration to upgrade. Migration removes all unsupported endpoints and everything associated with them in the target environment.

Locate your current vRealize Automation version in this table. Use the documents on the right to perform an upgrade of your vRealize Automation environment to the latest version.

Table 1. Supported Upgrade Paths to the Current vRealize Automation Release
Your Currently Installed Version Documentation for Incremental Upgrades
vRealize Automation 7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x, 7.4.x, and 7.5.x See one of these topics.
vRealize Automation 7.0 or 7.0.1 See Migrating vRealize Automation .
vRealize Automation 6.2.5 See one of these topics.
vRealize Automation 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4 See Migrating vRealize Automation

This table provides information about upgrading from an earlier vCloud Automation Center release. You must upgrade to vRealize Automation 6.2.5 before you upgrade to the latest version of vRealize Automation. You can find links to the documentation for 5.x and 6.x versions of vCloud Automation Center and vRealize Automation at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html.

Table 2. Supported Upgrade Paths to vRealize Automation 6.2.5
Your Currently Installed Version Documentation for Incremental Upgrades
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 Perform upgrades in the following order:
  1. Upgrading vCloud Automation Center 6.0 to 6.0.1
  2. Upgrading to vCloud Automation Center 6.1
  3. Upgrading to vRealize Automation 6.2.x
vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 Perform upgrades in the following order:
  1. Upgrading to vCloud Automation Center 6.1
  2. Upgrading to vRealize Automation 6.2.x
vCloud Automation Center 6.1.x Upgrading to vRealize Automation 6.2.x
vRealize Automation 6.2.x Upgrade directly to the 6.2.5 release as described in Upgrading to vRealize Automation 6.2.x
Note: vCloud Automation Center was rebranded to vRealize Automation. Only the user interface and service names are changed. Directory names and program names that contain vcac are not affected.
If you are upgrading from a 6.2.x environment, review these items.
  • The VMware vRealize Production Test Upgrade Assessment Tool analyzes your vRealize Automation 6.2.x environment for any feature configuration that can cause upgrade issues and checks that your environment is ready for upgrade. For information about downloading and using this tool, see VMware Knowledge Base article Using the VMware vRealize Production Test Tool to validate and test your vRealize Automation configuration (2134520). vRealize Production Test Upgrade Assessment Guide and vRealize Production Test documentation is available in the Related Resources section of vRealize Automation product documentation.
  • Upgrading from a 6.2.x environment to the latest version of vRealize Automation introduces many functional changes. For more information, see Considerations About Upgrading to This vRealize Automation Version.
  • If you have customized your vRealize Automation 6.2.x deployment, contact your CCE support staff for additional information about upgrade considerations.
  • Property dictionary controls that are not supported after upgrade can be restored using vRealize Orchestrator and property dictionary relationships.
  • If you have workflows in your source environment that contain deprecated code, see the vRealize Automation Extensibility Migration Guide for information about the code changes required for conversion to event broker subscriptions. The vRealize Automation Extensibility Migration Guide is available in the Learn More about vRealize Automation section of the vRealize Automation product documentation.