Upgrade the Virtual Appliance in Vmware

Upgrading the Virtual Appliance involves:

  • Backing up and deleting the hard disks of the existing virtual machines.
  • Deploying new virtual machines by using OVA image.
  • Restoring the backup to their hard disks.
  • Attaching the new hard disks to the older virtual machines

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance provides the reference script that helps in upgrading the Virtual Appliance.

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