The following article is a simple step-by-step walkthrough of going through the steps of upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation, starting with SDDC Manager and then a Management Domain. You can read more on Broadcom TechDocs for the Independent SDDC Manager Upgrade using the SDDC Manager UI
Please note that this is being performed in a personal home lab. Always take precautions and contact Broadcom support or any services through a partner for guidance.
From the SDDC Manager, go over to ‘Lifecycle Management’ on the left-hand navigation pane and select ‘SDDC Manager’ and you should find a package available to download. Once you click Download, the download will begin.
Once the download completes, you will find two options, we will run the Precheck first.
A message where the Download status appeared will later appear with a Precheck complete confirmation and an option to click View Details.
The precheck clears; this is a clean instance of SDDC Manager as it was recently deployed.
Scroll a little further down and look at the various tests
When you go back to the SDDC Manager initial screen, you can kick off the update by clicking ‘Update Now’
Please follow the documentation. Going into this, I purposely did not snapshot the SDDC Manager because I wanted to test what it was going to do.
Click ‘Start Upgrade’
Status updates
The primary UI will switch in a moment however you can go over to the tasks and check the status
Screen should cutover to the following to provide the upgrade process
Monitor all the various updates, it’s good to know these orders to help with any troubleshooting if needed
Once completed, the option to click ‘Finish’ will be there and then the SDDC Manager UI screen should load.
The next set of updates should be a Management Domain and it’s respective components.
