VCSA Migration 6.0 to 6.7

[amateolo]

Hello, experts,

I'm going to proceed to migrate a vcsa 6.0 to a 6.7.

My question is, how can I protect the vcsa 6.0 in case the upgrade fails to reverse?

Would a snapshot work?

I work with Veeam backup

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

make a backup from the VAMI of the vcsa 6.0 first.

Verify the Matrix comptibility.

https://www.kieri.com/step-by-step-upgrade-vcenter-vcsa-6-0-to-6-7/

ARomeo

[sjesse]

Look at

https://www.kieri.com/step-by-step-upgrade-vcenter-vcsa-6-0-to-6-7/

they give some good pictures. Basically you are creating a new appliance and migrating settings over, the old one is still there. It also states that here

Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller Appliance

The upgrade of the vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance is a migration of the old version to the new version, which includes deploying a new appliance of version 6.7. You can deploy the new appliance on an ESXi host 6.0 or later, or on the inventory of a vCenter Server instance 6.0 or later. You assign a temporary IP address to the new appliance to facilitate the configuration and services data migration from the old appliance to the newly deployed appliance. After the migration, the IP address and host name of the old appliance are applied to the new upgraded appliance of version 6.7. At the end of the upgrade, the temporary IP address is released and the old appliance is powered off.

[amateolo]

Hi!!

Does the VAMI of vcsa 6.0 backup the Database? If I restore, where do I find this option? On the other hand. Is it possible to reverse the migration of VCSA to 6.7 once it is completed? Does it affect the ESXi? or is it abnostic for the esxi? servers?

[amateolo]

I'm not sure that with a snapshot, the database copy is complete.

[Alex_Romeo]

nothing happens, don't worry I made many. Another solution is to download veeam backup & replication (free) and backup the vcsa. This way you have a full security backup.

ARomeo

[sjesse]

It doesn't matter if there is a snapshot or not, the appliance transfers the information over the network connection, they will be two sperate appliances. Thats why you have to pick a source and a target vcsa when you do it. Its the benefit of this approach, but like was also mentioned its a good idea to have full backups as well just incase.

[amateolo]

As I am vmware junior It is my first time  

My fear is if a mistake in this migration can break some of the esxi that is where I have my VMs