Upgrade VI Workload Domains to VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.x
To upgrade to
VMware Cloud Foundation
5.2.x, all VI workload domains in your environment must be at VMware Cloud Foundation
4.5 or higher. If your environment is at a version lower than 4.5, you must upgrade the workload domains to 4.5 and then upgrade to 5.2.x. Until
SDDC Manager
is upgraded to version 5.2.x, you must upgrade the management domain before you upgrade VI workload domains. Once SDDC Manager
is at version 5.2 or later, you can upgrade VI workload domains before or after upgrading the management domain, as long as all components in the workload domain are compatible.Within a VI workload domain, components must be upgraded in the following order.
- NSX.
- vCenter Server.
- ESXi.
- Workload Management on clusters that have vSphere with Tanzu. Workload Management can be upgraded through vCenter Server. See Updating vSphere Supervisor. .
- If you suppressed the Enter Maintenance Mode prechecks for ESXi or NSX, delete the following lines from the/opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.propertiesfile and restart the LCM service:lcm.nsxt.suppress.dry.run.emm.check=truelcm.esx.suppress.dry.run.emm.check.failures=true
- If you have stretched clusters in your environment, upgrade the vSAN witness host. See Upgrade vSAN Witness Host for VMware Cloud Foundation.
- For NFS-based workload domains, add a static route for hosts to access NFS storage over the NFS gateway. See Post Upgrade Steps for NFS-Based VI Workload Domains.
After all upgrades have completed successfully:
- Remove the VM snapshots you took before starting the update.
- Take a backup of the newly installed components.