VCSA with HA Patching

[Khalid_Hassan]

Author : Chris Bedford

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc/GUID-C27CD7DF-AB52-4A7...

Topic Name : Patch a vCenter High Availability Environment

Publication Name : vSphere Upgrade

Product/Version : VMware vSphere/6.5

Question :

procedure to patch VCSA with HA and procedure to roll back patches in case of issue

[sk84]

I think that the update procedure is described in detail in the above article.

As with any vCenter update, a snapshot is highly recommended. And if the VCHA cluster is working properly, you can take a snapshot of either the active or passive node, as both should be identical.

If something goes wrong during or shortly after the upgrade, you can power off the witness node and the node that has no snapshot, revert the snapshot of the remaining node, destroy the VCHA cluster (as described here: Recovering from Isolated vCenter HA Nodes ) and then reconfigure VCHA again.

For me, the following procedure is much safer and makes less work (at least for me):

- Destroy HA configuration in the GUI

- Make a snapshot of the remaining VCSA node

- Update VCSA

- Check if everything is okay

- Delete snapshot

- Reconfigure HA again

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

I recommend the scenario of sk84​.

Based to our experience it is the recommended scenario.

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