Journey to VCF 9 having vSphere 8.x and VMware Aria Operations 8.x
- Arun Nukula
- Sep 21
- 2 min read
Introduction
Introducing a mind map for a customer topology with vSphere and VMware Aria Operations, illustrating their path to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.
This blog details the journey step by step, guiding them through component deployments and upgrades, ultimately completing their VMware Cloud Foundation 9 journey.
Customer Topology
vSphere 8.x with several vCenter Servers, with one vCenter hosting VMware Aria Operations 8.x
VMware Aria Operations 8.x
There's no NSX deployed
Mindmap
Upgrading VMware Aria Operations 8.x to VCF Operations 9.0
Obtain Software Upgrade PAK file
Snapshot VMware Aria Operations 8.x cluster
​​It is mandatory to create a snapshot of each node in a cluster before you update a VMware Aria Operations cluster. Once the update is complete, you must delete the snapshot to avoid performance degradation.
Log into the VMware Aria Operations Administrator interface at https://<primary-node-FQDN-or-IP-address>/admin.
Click Take Offline under the cluster status.
When all nodes are offline, open the vSphere client.
Right-click a VMware Aria Operations virtual machine.
Click Snapshot and then click Take Snapshot.
Name the snapshot. Use a meaningful name such as "Pre-Update."
Uncheck the Snapshot the Virtual Machine Memory check box.
Uncheck the Ensure Quiesce Guest File System (Needs VMware Tools installed) check box.
Click OK.
Repeat these steps for each node in the cluster.
Log into the primary node VMware Aria Operations administrator interface of your cluster at https://primary-node-FQDN-or-IP-address/admin .
Click Software Update in the left pane.
Click Install a Software Update in the main pane.
Follow the steps in the wizard to locate and install your PAK file.
This updates the OS on the virtual appliance and restarts each virtual machine.
Read the End User License Agreement and Update Information, and click Next.
Click Install to complete the installation of the software update.
Log back into the primary node administrator interface.
The main Cluster Status page appears and the cluster goes online automatically. The status page also displays the Bring Online button, but do not click it.
Clear the browser caches and if the browser page does not refresh automatically, refresh the page.The cluster status changes to Going Online. When the cluster status changes to Online, the upgrade is complete.
Click Software Update to check that the update is done.
A message indicating that the update completed successfully appears in the main pane.
When you update VMware Aria Operations to a latest version, all nodes get upgraded by default.
If you are using cloud proxies, the cloud proxy upgrades start after the VMware Aria Operations upgrade is completed successfully.
Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance
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Upgrading ESX hosts
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Import an existing vCenter Server as a Workload Domain
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