About Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Upgrades
Upgrading Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge is similar to installing it. You download the Cisco ACI Virtual Edge OVF file from Cisco.com, upload it to the VMware vCenter content library. You then deploy Cisco ACI Virtual Edge on the ESXi hosts.
You perform these upgrade tasks using the Cisco ACI vCenter plug-in only. You cannot use the VMware PowerCLI or a Python script.
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Do not use the vSphere (thick) Client to upgrade Cisco ACI Virtual Edge or modify its vApp properties. Use only the Cisco ACI vCenter plug-in. Use only the vSphere Web Client to modify Cisco ACI Virtual Edge vApp properties. |
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The Cisco ACI Virtual Edge upgrade gets stuck on hosts through the Cisco ACI fabric plug-in in VMware vCenter 7.0U1. It also fails to put the host into maintenance mode to install the new Cisco ACI Virtual Edge virtual machine (VM). This happens when you try to upgrade try Cisco ACI Virtual Edge on VMware vCenter 7.0U1 that has vSphere Custer Services (vCLS)-enabled VMs deployed in a cluster by default. Doing so is required for Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and high availability. To remedy the issue, manually migrate the vCLS VMs from the host in the cluster where the Cisco ACI Virtual Edge VM upgrade is scheduled to any other host in the cluster. |
The following sections provide information about prerequisites and installation.
For information about other Cisco Cisco ACI Virtual Edge tasks, see the following sections in this guide.
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Installing Cisco ACI Virtual Edge—See the chapter Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Installation.
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Migrating from Cisco AVS to Cisco ACI Virtual Edge—See the chapter Migration from Cisco AVS to Cisco ACI Virtual Edge.
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Migrating from VMware VDS to Cisco ACI Virtual Edge—See the chapter Migration from VMware VDS to Cisco ACI Virtual Edge.