Upgrade the Management Domain to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x

You must upgrade the management domain before upgrading VI workload domains in your environment. In order to upgrade to
VMware Cloud Foundation
4.5.x, the management domain must be at
VMware Cloud Foundation
4.2.1 or higher. If your environment is at a version lower than 4.2.1, you must upgrade the management domain to 4.2.1 and then upgrade to 4.5.x.
Upgrade the components in the management domain in the following order:
  1. SDDC Manager and
    VMware Cloud Foundation
    services.
  2. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Suite products, and Workspace ONE Access.
  3. NSX-T Data Center.
  4. vCenter Server.
  5. vSAN Witness host
  6. ESXi.
  7. VxRail Manager and ESXi.
After all upgrades have completed successfully:
  1. Remove the VM snapshots you took before starting the update.
  2. Take a backup of the newly installed components.