Upgrading a vCenter 8.x Workload Domain to 9.0.1.0 in VCF Operations – Part 3

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of this installment of Upgrading a vCenter 8.x Workload Domain to 9.0.1.0 in VCF Operations.

Part 1 – https://khizeran.com/?p=5239

Part 2 – https://khizeran.com/?p=5258

Now that vCenter has been upgraded to 9.0.1, next step is ESX hosts to 9.0.1

You might need to disable DRS VM/Host affinity rules placed when NSX was deployed on the cluster. Re-enable after completion.

Before we ‘Configure Update’ we have to jump into vCenter and create an Image.

Go to the Stack Menu >> Lifecycle Manager >> Image Library and click ‘Create Image’

Provide a unique image name and select the targeted ESXi version. Your environment will vary. Click Validate & Save.

Now it’s saved, we can go into VCF Operations and Import the Image.

Under Fleet Management >> Lifecycle >> click to highlight org name

Import from a vCenter and select the image created earlier, click Import. **This will take some time to finish as a task for the import will be running.**

This task did error out for me because I had an image already with that ESXi build, so resorting to using existing one.

Under Fleet Management >> Lifecycle >> Select the Workload Domain and click ‘Configure Update’

Click ‘Next’ at the Cluster Precheck screen, then select the cluster to be updated

Select the cluster and click ‘Assign Image’

Select Image and click ‘Assign Image’

I un-checked all Upgrade Options and click Next, and then ‘Run Precheck’

The Precheck completed, I have some warnings being this is consumer hardware, Exit Details and then we proceed with schedule.

Click ‘Schedule Update’ run through the prompts of verifying the upgrade and scheduled for ‘Upgrade Now’.

We’re off to the races..

Everything completed successfully, there is our versions. Came a long way from 8.x 🙂