Month: March 2016

For an engagement last week, I had to find out if there are any considerations for performing an in place upgrade to vRealize Automation 7. And funny enough I found a few…
 

 

vRealize Automation 7 Upgrade Considerations

• Minimum upgrade version to vRA 7.0 is vRA 6.2.x

• Note : vRA 6.2.4 will not be supported for upgrade to 7.0 until 7.x

vRA 7.0 will only work with vRO 7.0

Customers with vRA 6.0 / 6.1 need to upgrade to 6.2.x first

The upgrade process to vRA 7.0 will stop if :

• Physical Endpoints are detected

• vCloud Director Endpoints are detected

Application Services Blueprints will not be migrated

Add component for Multi Machine Blueprints will not be available in 7.0

vRA 7.0 vRO Plug-in is not backward compatible

Customizations that leverage Custom Components Catalog (CCC) and vCloud Automation Center Designer (CDK) will not be supported in 7.0

 

Background Information :

 

Physical Endpoints

All previously supported physical endpoints like HP iLO, Cisco UCS, Dell iDRAC etc are not supported. I could not find any specific reason for it, only that it did not make the vRA 7.0 release.
Read More