This article is meant to assist you with the offline upgrade for Aria Operations for Networks
Before upgrading Aria Operations for Networks, make sure that snapshots have been taken on both Aria Operations for Networks Platform and Collector VMs to revert back the deployment to a working stable state.
Ensure Aria Operations for Networks VMs are powered off from vCenter using Power Option>Shut Down Guest OS and then take snapshots.
For clustered environments, please follow this KB for proper shutdown procedures Best practices to shutdown Aria Operations for Networks Clustered deployments
Post upgrade is Successful ensure to delete the snapshots.
Standard path
6.10.0 > 6.11.0 > 6.12.0 > 6.13.0 > 6.14.0
Jumps possible
6.8.0>6.10.0
6.9.0>6.11.0
6.10.0>6.12.0
6.11.0>6.13.0
6.12.0>6.14.0
Health checks to ensure a smooth upgrade
We recommend to have 100% resource reservation. Please make sure reservation is set to 100% before the upgrade.
Check the disk I/O speed (by doing a DD command)and make sure there is no latency beyond 20ms. Both steps will reduce overall time for upgrade
Check the MD5SUM of the downloaded upgrade bundle and match with Customer Connect site.
Increase the UI timeout to more than 1 hour. This will ensure seamless UI upgrade
Settings > System Configuration > User Session Timeout > Duration 24h.
You must upgrade Platform VMs before Proxy VMs.
In case of Cluster Upgrade, platform1 must be upgraded first, then the other platforms will upgrade automatically. To confirm platform1 IP address, run this command in CLI: (cli)ping platform1
Option 1:
scp VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<BUILD VERSION>.upgrade.bundle
consoleuser@<IP_Address_vRNI_VM>:~/
pscp -scp <SOURCE_PATH>\VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<BUILD VERSION>.upgrade.bundle
consoleuser@<IP_Address_vRNI_VM>:~/
Option 2:
Log in to Aria Operations for Networks Platform CLI using consoleuser and run this command:(cli) package-installer copy --host 1<HOST IP> --user <USER> --path /path/to/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<BUILD VERSION>.upgrade.bundle
Note: This command uses SCP to download the bundle from the host where the patch is downloaded, thus SCP server is required to be running on the host.
For more information, see Aria Operations for Networks Command-Line Interface Reference Guide.
(cli) package-installer upgrade --name VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<BUILD VERSION>.upgrade.bundle
(cli) show-version
For any clarifications and issue troubleshooting, contact Broadcom Support