tc Server upgrade in air-gapped environment

Products

• VMware Spring Runtime

Issue/Introduction

How can you perform an upgrade on tc server in an air-gapped environment (i.e., one with no Internet access)?

Environment

Product Version: 9.0

Resolution

In order to execute the upgrade with the local runtime binaries, we had to set the following values in tcserver.properties for each instance:

tcserver.get-runtime.disable=true

runtimes.tanzunet=false

This means that you will have to download and place the runtime manually.

This enables the upgrade to complete without prompting for a TanzuNet token.

These are the docs which describe the tc server upgrade practices and its properties:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-tc-Server/4/tc-server/GUID-topics-upgrade-best-practices.html
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-tc-Server/4/tc-server/GUID-topics-tcserver-properties-reference.html