Proactive Upgrade Case for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Note: The Proactive Upgrade process for Aria Suite Lifecycle is limited to Advanced Support customers with a Support Account Manager (SAM) and/or Dedicated Technical Support Engineer (DTSE).

Prerequisites for opening a Proactive VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Upgrade Cases:

Cases must be opened 10 business days in advance of the upgrade window.
Cases should be opened as Severity 4.
Collect the Aria Automation log bundle and upload to the new case.
Read the target version Release Notes and be aware of Known Issues.
Reference the Interop Matrix to confirm the target Aria Automation version is compatible with other integrations in the environment and plan to upgrade those if necessary. Also confirm the Aria Automation upgrade path is supported.
If this is a VCF environment, open a proactive Case with VCF Support.
Validate there are good backups that can successfully be restored of the Aria Suite Lifecycle VM.

VMware by Broadcom Support will:

Validate the target version and advise if a newer one is available.
Review provided logs for known issues that may impact the upgrade.
If a proactive Case is not raised with sufficient notice of 10 days, it will not be possible to offer log review and pre-check resolution within the planned time-frame.

Please complete the following template when opening the Case:

Upgrade Date & Time:
Aria Suite Lifecycle from version:
Aria Suite Lifecycle to version:
VCF from version:
VCF to version:
Good Backup Available?:
2 or more upgrade paths required?

Upgrade Recommendations:

It is recommended to retain locally the Aria Suite Lifecycle logs collected when opening the proactive Case until the upgrade has completed successfully.
Prepare a contingency plan to allow the upgrade maintenance window to be extended should a failure occur.
Schedule a maintenance window for the entire upgrade so that VMs can be powered off to make backups. Make sure there are good backups just prior to the upgrade. A good backup is one that restores have been tested and everything boots as expected. Powered off snapshots can provide a quick rollback point and are also required before starting the upgrade.
Have full cold backups of the nodes in case a roll back is necessary if the upgrade is unable to be completed before the maintenance window.
If 2 or more upgrade should be performed in line, take the latest snapshots after last upgrade completed.
If an upgrade failure occurs, please request an uplift in case severity.

Resolution

Open an Upgrade Awareness Case via Broadcom Support portal.

The purpose of a proactive upgrade case is to prepare in advance for the Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade.

This is not an exhaustive health check of the environment. If this is required, please engage VMware by Broadcom Professional Services.

Additional Information

Aria Proactive Upgrade Case Guides:

Aria Suite Lifecycle
Aria Automation
Aria Operations
Aria Operations for Networks
Aria Operations for Logs

Listed below are other external KB articles created for the proactive upgrade process by product: