Upgrading vRealize Operations Manager 8.3 to 8.5

vRealize Operations 8.5 is a minor release addressing security updates and bug fixes. For feature details, please refer to the vRealize Operations 8.4 documentation.

Review the following documentation:

Preperations

Check the current version of your vRealize Operations Manager

Download the necessary (update) files from VMware’s Customer Connect site.

In our case we are running 8.3, therefore we need the upgrade file stated below:

vRealize Operations 8.5.0 – Upgrade Assessment Tool
VMware vRealize Operations – Virtual Appliance upgrade for 8.0.x, 8.1.x, 8.2, and 8.3

Accept the License Agreement (after selecting the download file)

Make a snapshot of the vRealize Operations Manager appliance

First step is to install the Upgrade Assessment tool, this tool will run some checks to make sure the environment is ready to be updated.

Select > Software Update > Install a Software Update

Select the assessment tool file > APUAT-8.5.0.18176777.pak > Upload

The file is successfully staged and validated > Next

Accept the EULA > Next

Take note of the Release Information > Next

Start the installation > Install

Check the installation status

Installation is finished

Go to > Support > Support Bundles > and download the bundle that was just created

Now unzip the file in it’s entirety

And go to the apuadat-data folder > report > select the index.html file

Check the results on the System Validation Checks tab. This particular warning reminds you to use the correct upgrade .pak file, when running version 8.3

Also check the > Removed/Discontinued Metrics tab

Install upgrade file

Go to Software update > Install a Software Update

Select the file and choose Upload to stage the vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-8.x-to-8.5.0.18255614.pak file

Once the upload is finished it will start to stage the software

Uploading & Staging is finished > Choose Next

Accept the EULA > Next

Take note of the update and release information

The management interface will be unavailable from time to time. Just refresh the browser regularly to see if you can log in again in order to check the installation status

Installation is done > Current version is 8.5.