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vCloud Director 9.x upgrade

 

vCloud Director upgrade from 9.7.0.4 to 9.7.0.5

It’s a Multi-cell environment (2 cell) hence I am following Orchestrated method for ease of upgrade which is really easy instead of manual upgrade. 

The current version noted before upgrade is 9.7.0.4 

            

Prerequisites

  • Take Backup of vCD cells and its database
  •   Set up ssh private key login from the primary cell to all other cells in the vCloud Director instance for user vcloud

1.  On the primary cell generate private/public key (with no passphrase):

                 ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/id_rsa

 

              chown vcloud:vcloud $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/id_rsa 

              chmod 600 /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc/id_rsa 

            

2.  Copy public key to each additional cell in the instance to authorized_keys file. This can be done with one line command ran from the primary cell  

    cat $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@<cell-IP> "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

                 

3.  Verify that login with private key works for each secondary cell in the environment

               sudo -u vcloud ssh -i $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/id_rsa root@<cell IP/FQDN>     

       

 

Orchestrated Upgrade 

Upload vCloud Director binary to the primary cell and make it executable

chmod u+x vmware-vcloud-director-distribution-8.20.0-5070903.bin

Execute the file with  --private-key-path option pointing to the private key.

./vmware-vcloud-director-distribution-8.20.0-5070903.bin --private-key-path $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/id_rsa

Workflow

This is the workflow that is automatically executed:

  1. Quiesce, shutdown and upgrade of the primary cell. Does not start the cell.
  2. If maintenance cell was specified, it is put into maintenance mode.
  3. Quiescing and shut down of all the other cells.
  4. Upgrade of the vCloud Database (a prompt for backup)
  5. Upgrade and start of all other cells (except the maintenance cell)
  6. If maintenance cell was specified, it is upgraded and started.
  7. Start of the primary cell

         

         

         

 The vCD is upgraded to 9.7.0.5 and is verified from vCD portal.

      

 



 

 

 

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