- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
- 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
- Introduction
- Tuning the appliance
- Tuning Java
- Configuring the Kerberos authentication
- Configuring access to the local filesystem
- Configuring the Orchestrator service SSL certificate
- Orchestrator log files
- Redirecting Orchestrator logs to an external server
- Backup and recovery
- Control Center titbits
- 3. Distributed Design
- Introduction
- Building an Orchestrator cluster
- Load-balancing Orchestrator
- Upgrading a cluster
- Managing remote Orchestrators
- Synchronizing Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers
- 4. Programming Skills
- Introduction
- Version control
- Changing elements in a workflow
- Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements
- Working with packages
- Workflow auto documentation
- Resuming failed workflows
- Using the workflow debugging function
- Undelete workflows and actions
- Scheduling workflows
- Sync presentation settings
- Locking elements
- 5. Visual Programming
- 6. Advanced Programming
- Introduction
- JavaScript complex variables
- Working with JSON
- JavaScript special statements
- Turning strings into objects
- Working with the API
- Creating actions
- Waiting tasks
- Sending and waiting for custom events
- Using asynchronous workflows
- Scripting with workflow tokens
- Working with user interactions
- 7. Interacting with Orchestrator
- Introduction
- User management
- User preferences
- Using Orchestrator though the vSphere Web Client
- Accessing Orchestrator REST API
- Accessing the Control Center via the REST plugin
- Running Orchestrator workflows using PowerShell
- Using PHP to access the REST API
- 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working
- 9. Essential Plugins
- 10. Built-in Plugins
- Introduction
- Working with XML
- Working with SQL (JDBC)
- Working with SQL (SQL plugin)
- Working with PowerShell
- Working with SOAP
- Working with Active Directory
- Working with SNMP
- Working with AMQP
- 11. Additional Plugins
- 12. Working with vSphere
- 13. Working with vRealize Automation
- Introduction
- Working with the vRA-integrated Orchestrator
- Automating a vRA instance in Orchestrator
- Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA
- Adding Orchestrator as an infrastructure endpoint
- Adding an Orchestrator endpoint
- Integrating Orchestrator workflows as XaaS Blueprints
- Managing AD users with vRA
- Using the Event Manager to start workflows
In this recipe, we are looking to upgrade a cluster. This recipe works for updates as well as upgrades.
This is a simple process that I will split in 3 parts. First execute the following steps and then continue with either Minor upgrades or Major upgrades:
- Shut down all the Orchestrator servers in the cluster.
- Upgrade the Orchestrator servers, as seen in the recipe Updating Orchestrator in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.
- After finishing the upgrade, you need to log in to the Control Center.
- Make sure all the node settings are correct.
- Continue with either Minor upgrades or Major upgrades.
If you are upgrading between minor versions, such as 7.0 and 7.0.1, where no hardware change was made, then follow this step:
Upgrade the next Orchestrator server until you have upgraded the whole cluster.
If you are upgrading between major versions, such as 5.x, 6.x, or 7.0 and 7.1, where hardware changes have been made, you should follow these steps:
- Deploy a new instance of the appliance and push the configuration out to it.
- Continue until you replace the whole cluster.
- Then replace the first Orchestrator you upgraded with a new instance.
As clustering changed between vRO 5, 6, 7, and 7.1, you need to be a bit more careful with the upgrade. That's why you need to bring down the whole cluster. This is especially true when the hardware has been changed:
|
Version |
5.5 and 6 |
7.0 |
7.1 |
|
Memory |
3 GB |
4 GB |
6 GB |
|
vCPU |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
Hard disk |
7 + 5 GB |
7 + 5 GB |
7 + 10 GB |
If you are just updating a minor version, such as 7.0.1 to 7.0.2, you can try to upgrade the cluster hot. However, this could be problematic and should be tested for each minor upgrade before doing it in production.
Updating Orchestrator in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.
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