Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to 6.0 Update 2:

Current Version Info

·         VCSA Appliance version – 6.0.0.10000 Build Number 3018521

·         vCenter Server version – 6.0.0 Build 3018523

Target version after update

·         vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2 | 15 MARCH 2016 | ISO Build 3634788

·         vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 on vCenter Server Appliance Build 3634794

Pre-Requisites for the Change:

·         Download the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 Appliance ISO VMware-VCSA-all-6.0.0-3634788.iso

·         Disable any alerts or monitoring so that we don't get false alerts during the update process.

·         Before updating the vCenter Appliance take a clone of the image and also take a snapshot before the update

Impact during Change Windows

·         Down time required for the vCenter update. The update will take about 1 to 2 hours.

·         All Cloud configuration changes will be impacted during this change. However, this change will not impact existing production VMs hosted on the Cloud platform.

Updating the appliance

1. We need to access the VAMI at https://fqdn:5480

2. Now we Navigate to the Update page, mount the “update ISO image” and click “check updates -> check CDROM”

3. Now we can see there are patches outstanding. 

4. Use the "Install Updates" button to install all patches.

5.  It will start and we can see some status of the update.

6. The appliance will need to be restarted at the end. Reboot is on the Summary screen.

7. The appliance will come back fast.  Log in and check for the new version – should be 6.0.0.20000 Build 3634788.

8. It will take the vSphere Web Client longer to be back but when it does it will look different.

9. When you can log in and check the vCenter version.  It should be 6.0 build 3634794.

Post update testing

·         Check the VCSA system configuration and make sure that all nodes and services are healthy and no issues reported.

·         Check by logging in to vSphere Web Client that all hosts are connected and no issues reported.

·         Check by logging in to vSphere Desktop Client that all hosts are connected and no issues reported.

·         Customer / Infosys to check customer's Virtual machines. 

vCenter Rollback Plan

Once update test is successful remove the snapshot and leave the clone of VCSA for 7 days. If there are any major issues after updating the appliance we can go back to the old version from Snapshot or Cloned VM.