VDP upgrade?

[fgl]

I'm trying to test upgrading the VDP appliance from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1 via the upgrade iso package and following the upgrade instructions in the VDP admin guide.  I get as far as step 10 in the installing the upgrade section but I am unable to click on the 'Upgrade VDP' button because it is greyed out.  I can see the 'VMwareVDPUpgradeFrom61to6180" package listed and is in a ready status but it also says no packages available.

Is this another bug or am I missing something?

I've ran a 'rpm -qa | grep vdr' as stated in KB2037772 to verify version and it's definitely not upgrade as it still shows version vdr-1.1.53-53 and vdr-configure-1.0.1-21.

Any ideas from the people that have done the upgrade process?

[GSparks]

Two thoughts - make sure the download of the iso passes checksum first of all.

Secondly, it took a while for the ISO to mount for me. 

I think your status is more of it taking a little time for the ISO to mount.

[fgl]

I think you're right about taking more time.  I came back to it after my lunch and the upgrade button was no longer greyed out.

[GSparks · Accepted solution]

And the actual answer is...

after the ISO package mounts, it then has to unzip.  So, once the package finishes unzipping, you will see it as available to upgrade.

[fgl]

It would have been nice if the documenation said something about having to unzip after mounting and taking upwards of 10+ minutes to do it.  Also the 10+ minutes for bootup of the VDP is unheard of as I don't have any systems (virtual or physical) that takes more than 3-4 minutes to boot up.

[DougStorms]

very good point

the documentation in general for this product is pretty sketchy.