NSX-T 3.1.2 - Upgrade Management Plane - 4/4

TOC – Upgrade steps

Backup the NSX Manager

More info in the NSX-T Data Center Administration Guide.

Click Start to upgrade the Management plane

Accept the upgrade notification

Monitor the upgrade progress from the NSX Manager CLI for the orchestrator node.

tanzu-nsx> get upgrade progress-status
 
 Node Upgrade has been started. Please do not make any changes, until
 the upgrade operation is complete. Run "get upgrade progress-status"
 to show the progress of last upgrade step.
 
 Tue May 18 2021 UTC 22:38:49.533
 Upgrade info:
 From-version: 3.1.1.0.0.17483186
 To-version: 3.1.2.0.0.17883600
 Upgrade steps:
 download_os [2021-05-18 22:35:57 - 2021-05-18 22:38:04] SUCCESS
 shutdown_manager [2021-05-18 22:38:15 - ] IN_PROGRESS
     Status: cloud-init status command returned output active.
 Some appliance components are not functioning properly.
 Component health: MANAGER:UNKNOWN, POLICY:UNKNOWN, SEARCH:UNKNOWN, NODE_MGMT:UP, UI:UP. 
 Error code: 101

tanzu-nsx> get upgrade progress-status
 
 Node Upgrade has been started. Please do not make any changes, until
 the upgrade operation is complete. Run "get upgrade progress-status"
 to show the progress of last upgrade step.
 
 Tue May 18 2021 UTC 23:09:58.930
 Upgrade info:
 From-version: 3.1.1.0.0.17483186
 To-version: 3.1.2.0.0.17883600
 Upgrade steps:
 download_os [2021-05-18 22:35:57 - 2021-05-18 22:38:04] SUCCESS
 shutdown_manager [2021-05-18 22:38:15 - 2021-05-18 22:56:22] SUCCESS
 install_os [2021-05-18 22:56:22 - 2021-05-18 22:58:34] SUCCESS
 migrate_manager_config [2021-05-18 22:58:34 - 2021-05-18 22:58:44] SUCCESS
 switch_os [2021-05-18 22:58:44 - 2021-05-18 22:59:06] SUCCESS
 reboot [2021-05-18 22:59:06 - 2021-05-18 23:00:04] SUCCESS
 run_migration_tool [2021-05-18 23:03:11 - 2021-05-18 23:03:16] SUCCESS
 start_manager [2021-05-18 23:03:16 - ] IN_PROGRESS

tanzu-nsx> get upgrade progress-status
 Tue May 18 2021 UTC 23:21:33.659
 Upgrade is not in progress

Author: Daniel Micanek