Upgrade to 5.5 and vShield

[jmartin819]

We are running Trend Deep Security with vShield Endpoint. We are getting ready to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 and my question is, do we upgrade vShield Manger to 5.5 before we upgrade vSphere or after?? I remember a problem we had when we upgraded from 4 to 5 and the vFile didn't update and we couldn't power VMs on on the hosts that were upgraded. I believe that we need to upgrade vShield before we upgrade the hosts but I would like some confirmation I guess.

Thanks.

[abhilashhb · Accepted solution]

Here's a KB Article that will help you with your questions:

VMware KB: Best practices for upgrading to VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.0a

You must complete the upgrades in this order:

1. vShield Manager
2. vCenter Server
3. Other vShield components managed by vShield Manager
4. ESXi hosts

[IIIusion]

Can give you example from our recent upgrade to 5.5:

1. I've downloaded vShield End Point 5.1 and vShield App 5.0 (the latest) and installed them

2. I've upgraded the ESXi to 5.5

All worked