If you do not take a snapshot, you will be prompted to do so before you’re even allowed to perform the upgrade.<\/p>
As previously mentioned, I will be upgrading my appliance from 6.1.3 to 6.1.4.<\/p>
Begin by taking a snapshot of your current appliance, then attach the VDP Upgrade .ISO media to the appliance.<\/p> Login to the application’s web UI and click on the Upgrade tab. \u00a0It should automatically detect the presence of the ISO and begin reading it for updates but if it does not, click the Check Upgrades button. \u00a0Allow up to 15 minutes or more for the scan to complete before you can proceed with the upgrade.<\/p> Once the appliance has detected the available upgrade, click on the upgrade version to select it, then click the Upgrade VDP button.<\/p> If you had not taken a snapshot prior to upgrading the appliance, you will be presented with the following, hence the reason I listed this step as a prerequisite.<\/p> The upgrade process will now begin by first preparing the package for installation, which can take about 15 minutes or so, so now would be a good time to grab a beer or some coffee!<\/p> Afterwards, the actual installation will begin and you shall see the following set of instructions.<\/p> From my experience, I did not see the progress bar complete to 100%. \u00a0Instead, it disconnected itself from the web UI. \u00a0I realized that this meant it was beginning to stop its services and shut itself down. \u00a0<\/p> Before having come to this realization, I tried to reload the web UI but would simply get a blank screen.<\/p> Eventually, I took a look at the VDP appliance console I had previously opened, and noticed the appliance was indeed powered off. \u00a0 I confirmed by also checking the current status via the Web Client. \u00a0This is a good sign as the instructions stated the appliance will shut itself down after the upgrade has completed.<\/p> So now that the appliance was shutdown, the instructions explicitly stated to delete the snapshot before restarting the appliance. \u00a0Normally, I would wait until after to machine has booted up successfully before I delete a snapshot, just in case something went wrong, but in this case VMware stated this for a reason so I went ahead and deleted the snapshot.<\/p>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ithinkvirtual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vdp1.png\")
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