If you want to upgrade the additional vSphere Replication servers, you must use a downloadable ISO image. To ensure a successful upgrade, follow the sequence of instructions.
Prerequisites
- Download the
VMware-vSphere_Replication-8.5.x.x-build_number.iso
image from the vSphere Downloads page. Copy the ISO image file to a datastore that is accessible from the vCenter Server instance that you use with vSphere Replication. - Verify that you are currently running a version, which allows you to upgrade directly to vSphere Replication 8.5.
- You can directly upgrade to vSphere Replication 8.5, only if the version of vSphere Replication you currently run is 8.3.x or 8.4.x.
- If you run an earlier version of vSphere Replication, you must upgrade your vSphere Replication instance to version 8.4 first. For example, to upgrade vSphere Replication 6.5.1 to version 8.5, you must first upgrade 6.5.1 to 8.4.
Important: If you currently run
vSphere Replication 8.3 and want to upgrade to
vSphere Replication 8.5, please follow the
vSphere Replication 8.4 upgrade process. See
Upgrade Additional vSphere Replication Servers.
Procedure
What to do next
- Upgrade the vSphere Replication appliance. See Upgrade vSphere Replication Appliance.