Upgrade the vSphere Integrated Containers Appliance

If you deployed a 1.1.x version of the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance, you can upgrade your existing installation to a later 1.1.y update release.

To upgrade an instance of vSphere Integrated Containers Registry 0.5 (Harbor) that you deployed with vSphere Integrated Containers 1.0, see Upgrade vSphere Integrated Containers Registry 0.5 to 1.1.x.

Prerequisites

• You have an existing vSphere Integrated Containers 1.1.x appliance that you deployed by using the official OVA installer.
• Back up the previous appliance by using your usual backup tools.

• Deploy the new version of the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance to a location in which it can access the VMDK files of the previous appliance. For information about using the OVA installer, see Deploy the vSphere Integrated Containers Appliance.

  IMPORTANT: In the Registry Configuration section of the installer, make sure that you provide the same passwords in the Registry Admin Password and Database Password as the previous appliance uses.

• Log in to a vSphere Web Client instance from which you can access both versions of the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance. If you use vSphere 6.5, log in to the Flex-based vSphere Web Client, not the HTML5 vSphere Client.

Procedure

1. Shut down both of the previous and new vSphere Integrated Containers appliances by selecting Shut Down Guest OS.

   IMPORTANT: Do not select Power Off.

2. Right-click the previous vSphere Integrated Containers appliance, and select Edit Settings.

3. Hover your mouse over Hard disk 2, click the Remove button, and click OK.

   Hard disk 2 is the larger of the two disks.

   IMPORTANT: Do not check the Delete files from this datastore checkbox.

4. Right-click the new vSphere Integrated Containers appliance, and select Edit Settings.
5. Hover your mouse over Hard disk 2, click the Remove button, and check the Delete files from this datastore checkbox.
6. Click the New device drop-down menu at the bottom of the Edit Settings wizard, select Existing Hard Disk, and click Add.
7. Navigate to the VDMK files of the previous appliance, select the VMDK file with the file name that ends in _1, and click OK.
8. Click OK again to update the VM settings.
9. Power on the new appliance to complete the upgrade.

What to Do Next

Log into the new versions of vSphere Integrated Containers Registry and vSphere Integrated Containers Management Portal to verify that the data from your previous vSphere Integrated Containers installation has migrated successfully.