Essential Prechecks for a Successful VCF Automation Upgrade
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Read Before Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to VCF Automation
To ensure a smooth and successful upgrade, it is critical to review the precheck requirements before proceeding. This upgrade introduces architectural changes that may impact existing configurations, especially cloud accounts and integrations.
If your environment includes any of the cloud accounts or integrations listed in the prechecks, you must pause the upgrade and follow the remediation steps provided in this article. Skipping this step may lead to upgrade failures or broken integrations.
Carefully reviewing the prechecks will help you avoid unexpected issues and ensure a seamless transition to VCF Automation.
Environment
- VMware Aria Automation 8.16 and above
- VCF Automation 9.0
Cause
In VCF Automation 9.0, a few features which are currently being used will no longer be available.
Go through all the pre-checks and make sure everything relevant is addressed before attempting to upgrade VMware Aria Automation.
Resolution
| # | Precheck |
| 1 | Shared infrastructure multi-tenancy capabilities of VMware Aria Automation, such as Virtual Private Zone and provider image management. Click here to check more details. |
| 2 | The ability to add VMware Cloud Director as a cloud account in VMware Aria Automation. Click here to check more details. |
| 3 |
Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) Click here to check more details. |
| 4 | Kubernetes integration capabilities, including TKG and TMC integration. Click here to check more details |
| 5 | If your Aria Automation environment includes an NSX-V, NSX-T manager mode, or VCF cloud account with an underlying NSX-T manager mode cloud account, you must not attempt to upgrade to VCFA 9 until you have removed all such cloud accounts from your source environment. |
| 6 | AVI Load Balancer cloud account support is removed in VCF Automation 9.0 and will be available in future release, so a VMware Aria Automation 8.x environment which is leveraging AVI cloud accounts must be prevented from upgrading. |
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