Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation to
5.2.x
This
VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Management
document describes how to manage the lifecycle of a VMware Cloud Foundation environment. The information includes prerequisites, step-by-step configuration instructions, and suggested best practices.Review the VMware Interoperability Matrix to verify compatibility and upgradability before planning and starting an upgrade.
You can perform a sequential or skip-level upgrade
to
VMware Cloud Foundation
5.2.x from
VMware Cloud Foundation
4.5 or
later. If your environment is at a version earlier than 4.5, you must upgrade the
management domain and all VI workload domains to VMware Cloud Foundation
4.5 or later before you can upgrade to
VMware Cloud Foundation
5.2.x.vSphere with Tanzu enabled clusters, may require a specific upgrade sequence. See KB 92227 for more information.
The first step is to download the bundles for each
VMware Cloud Foundation
component that requires an upgrade. After all of the bundles are available in SDDC Manager
, upgrade the management domain and then your VI workload domains.