Upgrade, Backup and
RestoreLast Updated February 20, 2025
You can update your existing
VMware Aria
Operations
deployments to
a newly released version. When you perform a software
update, you need to make sure you use the correct PAK file for your cluster. A
good practice is to take a snapshot of the cluster before you update the
software, but you must remember to delete the snapshot once the update is
complete.
During the upgrade process, any user modifications made to the
default content, including alert definitions, symptoms, recommendations, policy
definitions, views, dashboards, widgets, and reports, will be overwritten. To preserve
such customizations and facilitate easy restoration after the upgrade, you must clone,
export or create a backup of your content.
Starting with version 8.6 of
VMware Aria
Operations
, internal certificates
are renewed when you upgrade a cluster, except when the cloud proxy version 8.4, 8.5, or
earlier is present. Automatic root-CA certificate renewal will be available when cloud
proxy is version 8.6 and is upgraded to higher versions. After each product upgrade, the
cluster will have a new root-CA certificate with a 5-year validity period. Automatic certificate renewal does
not affect custom certificates.