Upgrading to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12

• Current version of vRSLCM in my lab is of version 8.10 PSPACK 9.

• Goal is to upgrade to version 8.12. As we all know from this version onwards vRSLCM will now be refferred as VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

• I have mapped updaterepo iso on the vRSLCM appliance using datastore iso option

• Login into vRSLCM and then click on check for upgrade

• Remember to take a snapshot without fail before attempting an upgrade

• Here you go there's my update

• There's a product pane which tells you to acknowledge that necessary prerequisites have taken place , accept to move forward

• There are 6 validations performed

• Upgrade started

• During this phase check

/var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log
/opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log
/opt/vmware/bootstrap/postupdate.log

• After few minutes , here you go , the all nee VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12

• Here's the home page

• Environments pane

• Remember , I just upgraded by vRSLCM and once done , as expected all my existing products would start displaying the new names. Unless i upgrade the product, on the product end it would still show the old branding.

• That's the system settings

• This concludes uprgade of vRSLCM to what now we call VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12

• VMware Aria Suite

• Guides

• Release Notes & Patches