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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from  VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Pages 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Upgrading a cluster


In this recipe, we are looking to upgrade a cluster. This recipe works for updates as well as upgrades.

Getting ready

We need a cluster that consists of at least two nodes and is ready to be upgraded.

How to do it...

This is a simple process that I will split in 3 parts. First execute the following steps and then continue with either Minor upgrades or Major upgrades:

  1. Shut down all the Orchestrator servers in the cluster.

  2. Upgrade the Orchestrator servers, as seen in the recipe Updating Orchestrator in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.

  3. After finishing the upgrade, you need to log in to the Control Center.

  4. Make sure all the node settings are correct.

  5. Continue with either Minor upgrades or Major upgrades.

Minor upgrades

If you are upgrading between minor versions, such as 7.0 and 7.0.1, where no hardware change was made, then follow this step:

Upgrade the next Orchestrator server until you have upgraded the whole cluster.

Major upgrades

If you are upgrading between major...

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