Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.16 and above via Aria Lifecycle fails with error LCMVROPSYSTEM25008
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Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.16 and above via Aria Lifecycle fails with error LCMVROPSYSTEM25008

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Article ID: 372455

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Products

VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


1. Pre-update System Validation failed with the following warning:

 

2. When upgrading Aria Operations to 8.17.1 via Aria Suite Lifecycle, similar errors and details shown below are presented in LCM:

Error Code: LCMVROPSYSTEM25008

VMware Aria Operations upgrade failure

[{"rel":"pak_cluster_status","href":"https://vrops_IP_or_FQDN/casa/upgrade/cluster/pak/vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-817123642532/status"},{"rel":"pak_current_activity","href":"https://vrops_IP_or_FQDN/casa/upgrade/cluster/pak/reserved/current_activity"}]

Environment

Aria Operations 8.14 and below

 Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16

Cause

There are lightweight Cloud Proxies converted from Remote Collectors (RCs) present in the Aria Operations environment, similar to the following:

RCs are no longer supported since vRealize Operations 8.10.

The upgrade process from 8.10 through 8.14 converts RCs to lightweight Cloud Proxies (CPRCs), but RCs/CPRCs were completely deprecated in 8.16. Aria Operations 8.14.1 is the last version to support RCs. It's not supported to upgrade to 8.16 or beyond with legacy RCs or CPRCs in the cluster. See details here in Aria Operations 8.16 Release Notes.

Resolution

If the RCs have been upgraded/converted to lightweight CPs, please follow the steps in Pre-update system validation failed with error "...At least one Remote Collector found..." to migrate RCs to fresh new CPs deployed from OVA. Then proceed with upgrading Aria Operations from 8.14.1 to 8.16 and above via LCM.

 

Additional Information

Application Remote Collectors are NOT the same as Remote Collectors. Please refer to the following resources for further information:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-16/Chunk1380008287/Chunk138000828-7.html