VMware announced the release of Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18.0 (Release Notes) on July 22, 2024. Along with this release Product Support Pack 1 for 8.18.0 was released (Release Notes). A ‘System Upgrade’ on the appliance to 8.18.0 is required before the Product Support Pack 1 is applied. The Product Support Packs can be thought of as policies that allow new versions of the Aria Cloud Management solutions.
I did previously post a YouTube video of the upgrade process a few months back, it was the same process, feel free to watch that if it helps.
It’s important to review the release notes as there are continued changes in how the Aria LCM Environments will be managed.
From the Aria LCM Appliance homepage options, select Lifecycle Operations >> Settings >> System Upgrade. Once you’ve determined how you want to perform the upgrade, click ‘Check for Upgrade’
The Upgrade option should appear and a validation that there is a newer version available.
Once you’re ready, begin by taking a snapshot by taking it manually or click ‘Create Snapshot’ The following is performing the snapshot through the appliance.
Once the request for snapshot completes, you may have to ‘Check for Upgrade’ again and then click ‘Upgrade’ Next steps will be to confirm you performed a snapshot and then a pre-check.
Give some time, the upgrade should complete successfully, the appliance will need to reboot.
We now head over to the same section Lifecycle Operations >> Settings >> Product Support Pack and we find that Product Support Pack 1 for 8.18.0 is applied and we now can upgrade to the supported versions.
