Upgrade vSAN Data Protection Appliance to new patches

Products

• VMware vSAN 8.x

Issue/Introduction

vSAN Data Protection Appliance config UI does not support upgrade. Manual steps are required to upgrade it to new patches.

Environment

vSAN Data Protection Appliance

Resolution

1. Take snapshot for appliance
2. Copy the new patch's ISO into appliance
3. Mount ISO

# mkdir -p /mnt/drive
# mount -o loop snapservice_appliance-8.0.3.1-xxxxxx.iso /mnt/drive
# ls
bin  update 
# cd update/
# ls
manifest  package-pool  repodata  update-non-lvm.sh

4. Perform precheck

# ./update-non-lvm.sh precheck /mnt/drive/update
Mon Dec 30 05:25:30 AM UTC 2024: Running Appliance Update script ./update-non-lvm.sh
Please input root password:
Execute precheck action
Check cap-workflow-engine is running
Authentication

Registering credential for root
Done registering credential for root
Precheck appliance
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   349  100   178  100   171   1551   1490 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3061
{
"workflowName": "cap-non-lvm-update-precheck",
"instanceId": "d15f959d-00d7-4442-9e1f-9a5e3a4beeb3",
"task": "update-precheck",
"status": "Running",
"message": "Running",
"progress": "0%"
}
Check status
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   169  100   169    0     0  93010      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  165k
{
"workflowName": "cap-non-lvm-update-precheck",
"instanceId": "d15f959d-00d7-4442-9e1f-9a5e3a4beeb3",
"task": "",
"status": "Completed",
"message": "Completed",
"progress": "100%"
}

5. Once precheck succeeds, perform update action

# ./update-non-lvm.sh update /mnt/drive/update
Mon Dec 30 05:25:50 AM UTC 2024: Running Appliance Update script ./update-non-lvm.sh
Please input root password:
Execute update action
Check cap-workflow-engine is running
Authentication

Registering credential for root
Done registering credential for root
Update appliance
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   316  100   154  100   162   5826   6128 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12153
{
"workflowName": "cap-non-lvm-update",
"instanceId": "da8971b4-9fa5-47d5-b114-42fba30d1c58",
"task": "",
"status": "Running",
"message": "Running",
"progress": "0%"
}
Check status
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   194  100   194    0     0  89236      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 97000
...

Progress: 72%, running
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   192  100   192    0     0   1764      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1761
Progress: 81%, running
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   160  100   160    0     0   112k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  156k
{
"workflowName": "cap-non-lvm-update",
"instanceId": "da8971b4-9fa5-47d5-b114-42fba30d1c58",
"task": "",
"status": "Completed",
"message": "Completed",
"progress": "100%"
}

6. Once update succeeds, reboot appliance.

7. Check the service status after reboot

# docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                                         COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS                    PORTS                                                                                                                          NAMES
4c883c2cb659   harbor-repo.packages.vcfd.broadcom.net/snapservice/snapshot-service:8.0.3.1   "/snapshot-service -…"   58 seconds ago   Up 46 seconds (healthy)   0.0.0.0:8088-8089->8088-8089/tcp, :::8088-8089->8088-8089/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8098-8099->8098-8099/tcp, :::8098-8099->8098-8099/tcp   app-snapservice-1
3e2b5b49b880   dockerhub.packages.vcfd.broadcom.net/postgres:14.2                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   59 seconds ago   Up 55 seconds (healthy)   5432/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5433->5433/tcp, :::5433->5433/tcp                                                                            app-mock-db-1
d037e2df2f97   dockerhub.packages.vcfd.broadcom.net/postgres:14.2                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   59 seconds ago   Up 55 seconds (healthy)   0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp, :::5432->5432/tcp

# cat /etc/vmware/cap/product.info
{
"product_name": "VMware SnapshotService Appliance",
"version": "8.0.3.1",
"build_number": "xxxxxx"
}

#cat /opt/vmware/etc/appliance_versionn
version:8.0.3.1
build:xxxxxx