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GregRoberts2011
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vCD 5.5. Upgrade


Hi

As anyone done this upgrade and can share the experiance of how easy it is and the gotchyas ?

Also what order can the upgrade be done in, does it need to be all on the same day ? ,e.g.

Upgrade vSphere, upgrade vcenter, upgrade vCD

Many thanks

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IamTHEvilONE
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We have an article for order of operation.

Update sequence for vSphere 5.5 and its compatible VMware products (2057795)

If you aren't on vSphere 5.1 already, you may need to go from 5.0 to 5.1 of vCenter and let vCloud sync with it first.  Otherwise, you might get errors on the vCloud Director upgrade stating that there are unsupported vCenters deployed (stops the DB upgrade).

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JasonBurrell
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I did the upgrade in my test environment with no issue. It seemed just as easy as the previous releases. I am still going to wait a while before I do my prod environment. The only thing that was different was for the new feature of catalog sync I had to enable that in the org first before it showed up.

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GregRoberts2011
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Thanks, what order of upgrading did you do it in, as vCS does not exist in isolation ?

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We have an article for order of operation.

Update sequence for vSphere 5.5 and its compatible VMware products (2057795)

If you aren't on vSphere 5.1 already, you may need to go from 5.0 to 5.1 of vCenter and let vCloud sync with it first.  Otherwise, you might get errors on the vCloud Director upgrade stating that there are unsupported vCenters deployed (stops the DB upgrade).

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GregRoberts2011
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Thanks, we are currently on v5.12

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MKJE
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Hi,

I upgraded my test environment without problems.

Upgrading the production was quite different.

The upgrade of vCD didn't give any problems but upgrading the vCenter removed all storage profiles.

Recreating the storage profiles enabled them again in the vCD but vCD can't deploy from Catalog to the storage clusters and I can't copy a vApp to Catalog. I'm able to create a new vApp/vm on the storage cluster. VMware support have been working on the problem for 6+ hours and the issue ian't resolved yet.

I would wait a bit before upgrading vCD and vCenter to 5.5 unless you only have a All storage profile.

Regards

Mikael

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JasonBurrell
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Mikaelk,

Sounds like your inventory database got destroyed during the upgrade.  I'm not sure at this point if you could restore your backup of the inventory database or not, you might want to ask support.  As a very ugly workaround you could try and see if you can choose the new storage profile you created by going into the vApp template and right-clicking on each VM in the vApp going to properties and choosing the storage profile from the drop down. 

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MKJE
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Hi,

Turns out that it's a problem with SDRS.

Now waiting for engineering.

Regards

Mikael

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