Essential Prechecks for a Successful VMware Aria Automation 8.x upgrade to VCF Automation 9.x

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation
• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

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
• VCF Automation 9.1

Cause

In VCF Automation 9.x, 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 VMware 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 upgrade to VCFA 9 until a migration plan is in place. Removing an NSX endpoint is highly disruptive, it makes existing deployments unusable for day-two operations and breaks dependent configurations such as network profiles. Contact Global Support or Professional Services for an NSX migration plan before proceeding.
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.