Upgrades

Upgrading View Servers in a Cloud Pod Architecture
The Cloud Pod Architecture feature uses standard View components to provide cross-datacenter
administration. All servers in all pods that are joined in a pod federation must be upgraded to the same
version of View Connection Server as soon as possible.
With the Cloud Pod Architecture feature, you link together multiple View pods to provide a single large
desktop brokering and management environment. A View pod consists of a set of View Connection Server
instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host
desktop virtual machines. For information about designing and setting up a Cloud Pod Architecture, see
Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture.
Use the following process to upgrade your Cloud Pod Architecture:
1 Upgrade all View Connection Server instances in one pod, according to the usual process for upgrading
a single View Connection Server instance.
2 Repeat the preceding step for the other pods in the federation, upgrading each pod one-by-one.
IMPORTANT During the upgrade process, some View Connection Server instances will be using the latest
version and some will be using the older version. This sort of mixed environment is supported during the
upgrade process, but VMware recommends that you complete this process as soon as possible. New
features will not work in a mixed environment. Also, a new feature that might be visible in View
Administrator on an upgraded server will not be visible in View Administrator on a server that has not been
upgraded.
Upgrade vCenter Server
Perform a vCenter Server upgrade as part of the same maintenance window during which you upgrade
other View server components. Before you upgrade vCenter Server, you must back up some View data.
After the upgrade, if View Composer is running on the same server, you must restart the View Composer
service.
Prerequisites
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Determine when to perform this procedure. Choose an available desktop maintenance window. For
information about how much time is required, see the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide.
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Back up the vCenter Server database and the View Composer database.
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Back up the View LDAP database from a View Connection Server instance by using the vdmexport.exe
utility.
For instructions, see the View Administration document. If you have multiple instances of
View Connection Server in a replicated group, you need to export the data from only one instance.
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Perform the tasks listed in “Preparing for Upgrades That Include vSphere,” on page 21.
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Verify that the server on which vCenter Server is installed has a CA (certificate authority)-signed SSL
server certificate installed and configured. After you upgrade View Connection Server, if
vCenter Server does not use a CA-signed certificate, the default self-signed certificate is shown as
invalid in View Administrator, and a message indicates that vCenter Server is unavailable.
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Complete the prerequisites listed in the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide, using the version of the guide
that corresponds to the version of vSphere that you plan to upgrade to.
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