With the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance there are a few different ways you can load binaries so that you can Install or Update products managed. The VMware to Broadcom transition during the time of this blog is still in place and some customers may be experiencing some minor delays with systems migrating to the Broadcom Support Portal.
Please note before performing any upgrades that you review Release Notes for targeted versions, have a backup plan in place and ensure you’re checking interoperability for single or multi-step upgrades as well as product integrations;
Review the following VMware documentation on Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager – Configure product binaries
One method I was testing in my lab was downloading binaries on a NFS share on my Synology
I created a new folder called NFS and ensured I gave it NFS Permissions, for my lab I opened up a range from a network so that everything as access to it, I suggest you take all security measures with doing this.
After the folder is created, you can choose anyway you would want to upload binaries to the NAS, uploading through browser Drag and Drop or if you happen to have it shared over SMB.
To help with obtaining the path, from within Synology’s FileStation, right-click on the folder and select ‘Properties’
Now that we have our files uploaded, permissions established, we can now go to Aria Suite Lifecycle >> Settings >> Binary Mapping
Select the NFS option and populate the location, select the package and click ‘Add’
**Note that some packages may fail upload due to incompatibility with a support pack or no instance of the product detected.
As a test we will be upgrading Aria Operations 8.16.0 to 8.17.1
After it completes it should now appear as a added binary
When we go to our Environment and select Upgrade for Aria Operations, you can see it recognizes a compatible upgrade.
