Steps to upgrade vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor Cluster in vCenter Server

Products

• VMware vSphere with Tanzu

Issue/Introduction

Upgrading Supervisor Cluster

Environment

Pre-Requisites:

The order to upgrade components would be:

• Upgrade NSX-T Data Center.
• Upgrade vCenter Server.
• Upgrade ESXi hosts.
• Perform a Supervisor Namespaces update.

Resolution

The procedure to update a Supervisor Namespace is pretty straight forward:

• Navigate to Menu -> Workload Management

• Navigate to Namespaces -> Updates

• Select the Version that you want to update to.

• Select one or more Supervisor Clusters to apply the update to.

• Click Apply Updates

 

The Update Process:

In order to perform an update your Configuration Status must be Running and Kubernetes Status must Ready. If they are not in these states your cluster will not be eligible to update.

If we head over to our Cluster -> Monitor -> Namespaces Overview we can check the status of our cluster.

From the Available Versions you can choose which version of Kubernetes you wish to update to from the available list.

Select the Cluster and Click Apply Updates

Monitor the Update Process.

During the Update Process you can monitor the status by viewing the Recent Tasks or by tailing the /var/log/vmware/wcp/wcpsvc.log on the vCenter Server.

Once the Update Process is complete, you will see the updated Version in your **Cluster Namespaces Overview.

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